Harman

About the Role
 

The Senior Manager, Business Transformation is responsible for providing leadership to the assigned, highly critical/highly complex workstreams by utilizing business transformation or performance improvement practices. The role requires partnering with the line leaders/functional leaders to achieve transformative performance by driving improvement strategies and pushing those actions to results.

This role may involve leading or supporting key strategic initiatives such as Program/Project Management. You'll shape aspirations, develop initiatives, and lead end-to-end execution to deliver superior results for the division.

In this role, we are looking for a natural talent with a flair for structured business problem-solving and continuous improvement with a strong financial acumen who can effectively partner with a broad range of stakeholders to drive performance, mindset, and behaviors.

This role will report to the Automotive Business Transformation lead. As member of the Automotive Business Transformation team, you will enjoy a tremendous learning opportunity in a highly competitive environment providing an excellent platform for advancing career growth.

What You Will Do

• Champion and implement Business Transformation projects to execute the Automotive Strategy

• Work collaboratively with the functions / business / external consultants to design, execute and lead teams through organizational change to drive short, medium, and long-term value

• Lead in-depth review focusing on identifying full potential, target setting, action/measure tracking, and gap closure to benchmark.

• Act as a sparring partner for leaders to increase speed, challenging the status quo, breaking down functional silos, relentless prioritization, and faster execution

• Ensure initiatives drive implementation and guide each to fast and pragmatic execution

• Hold the team accountable for the results and infuse a sense of urgency. Bring clarity, transparency, and insights to drive effective decision-making and course correction

• Support change management efforts to drive high-performance culture and coach team members on transformation behaviors and mindset change. Act as a role model in the deployment of the Automotive target culture

• Ensure connectivity across the workstreams to leverage best practices and knowledge sharing
   

What You Need

• 8+ years of experience in any of the areas – Business Operations, Business Consulting, Restructuring/Turnaround, M&A Integration, or Business Project Management

• Undergraduate degree in Engineering Management, Finance, Engineering, or other business management discipline

• Experience managing and leading large-scale improvement efforts to completion

• Critical Skills: Teamwork, result orientation, strong analytics skills, impactful communication skills, both written and verbal, with an ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences

What is Nice to Have

• Master’s Degree, MBA or equivalent

• Certification of Lean Six Sigma or any Improvement methodology

What We Offer:

• HARMAN offers a diverse and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages career development opportunities, professional training and competitive market base compensation

• You will also receive top-notch employee discounts on Harman’s Consumer Audio (JBL, AKG, HARMAN Kardon) and Samsung products

• Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work life integration and collaboration in a global friendly working atmosphere and good work-life-balance

• Attractive salary package based on the Metall & Elektro Tarif Baden Wurttemberg and an Employer contribution towards a company pension plan

• Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University’s business and leadership academies which also includes extensive technical trainings

• Internal talent management leadership acceleration programs

• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program