Address
SalaryLocation: California
Salary: $97,100 - $145,600 based on experience
What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda
Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one. We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals.
At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success. We strive to be a company which serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”
We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.
If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!
About this Position:
Developing and executing product and business strategy in a world of rapid technological and social change requires a highly capable, highly knowledgeable, and highly engaged team. American Honda’s Sustainability & Business Development (SBD) business unit (BU) is tasked with navigating the business and technology application path for Honda's future renewable energy, resource circulation and innovative business initiative products, services, and businesses. Our focus is to establish an ecosystem of hardware, software, and renewable energy that achieves these goals by focusing on real-world user experience. By providing solutions to users that are intuitive, generate value for users in terms of time savings, money savings, and enriching their lives we can expand and deepen our relationship with each customer. The team will focus on building and sustaining Honda's core brand values and enhancing brand image and competitiveness in the marketplace by innovating, incubating, selecting, developing, applying, and operating new businesses, features, products, and services with responsibility for their profitability, competitiveness, and customer satisfaction for Honda in North America.
The Business Model Development team, through practical business development activities, will establish a lifecycle business that will be the foundation of Honda's future business and will have a long lasting relationship with customers. This team's mission is to plan and carry out the tasks of developing new business offerings comprised of new services and products that increase the value of the customer's experience during the period they own the car. The business addresses value-added products and services throughout the vehicle's lifecycle - from the purchase of a new car to the time the car is scrapped.
The Business Program Lead will be the project manager for new Proof of Concept (PoC) activities to validate business development themes or hypotheses. The role will work with leadership and business development teams to develop PoC plans including desired business and technical outcomes and learnings, assemble cross functional teams, and employ internal and external technologies to achieve the project's goals. He / She ensures all required tasks are executed and periodically reports on program status. Analyzes and documents lessons learned from PoC programs and recommends next steps to leadership and business development teams.
Responsibilities include:
- Program lead ensures all assigned programs are operating at to meet program objectives. Proactively identifies and addresses issues in active programs. Works with cross functional teams to stay on schedule and budget. Continually asks what success looks like for PoC projects and manages project to meet objectives and learnings. Employs agile techniques to move quickly, incorporate learnings and pivot as necessary.
- Utilizing the understanding of business team needs, market environment, and Honda capabilities, leads the creation and management of PoC projects to provide answers to key technical and business questions. Defines resource needs and works with management to gain commitment across the organization.
- Regularly reports status of all POC projects to stakeholders including lessons learned and hypothesis updates as they are found. Upon completion of project, analyses results, summarizes and presents key learnings, recommends next steps, and archives project results.
- Follows project management and agile best practices and tool usage. Proposes improvements in process to incorporate continued improvement of PoC projects and their results.
- OT necessary to complete task deadline for Quality Reporting
- Travel may be necessary for training & meeting with other Mfg. facilities
