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SalaryJob Purpose
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. Sustainability & Business Development Business Unit is tasked with navigating the path to achieve Honda's Triple Zero environmental goals: 100% Zero Emission Products, 100% Zero Carbon Energy, and 100% Zero Impact Materials for our products. 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 Digital Product Passport Business Lead role will be the lead for a Digital Product Passport (DPP). This position is tasked to be a business subject matter expert and business lead in the development of the and daily execution of planning and development path towards a functional DPP.
The Business Lead will be responsible to gather requirements, identify data sets, and communicate the business direction, use cases and requirement to the IT development team. This role will act as the Product Owner to ensure success of the development of a Digital Product Passport.
Key Accountabilities
- Digital Product Passport strategy development: Identify and consolidate various business applications of a DPP. The lead will verify various business use hypotheses and translate into a working state with the development team. This person must apply an agile method for speed and rapid iterative learning, embracing fail early / fail often principles, and document learnings for future iterations. The focus of this role is to be accountable for the progress of DPP development.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Be the subject matter expert with support from a wide range of disciplines that may be part of a Digital Product Passport, such as Auto Development, Auto Sales, Parts and Service, Material Research, Life Cycle Assessment, Finance, etc. The Lead will act as the sole business point person to define what needs to be implemented into a DPP.
- Team Coordination and Vendor Management: Accountable for cross company, cross function, and multi-vendor relationships to adhere and meet sprint schedules. Lead any business-led vendor relationships including establishments of legal documentation such as MSA, SOW, etc.
- Communication: Accountable for keeping team members, management, and others in the company informed on the progress and direction of the group’s efforts.
- Budget Management: Track and report DPP financial metrics.
Qualifications, Experience, and Skills
Minimum Educational Qualifications:
- BA/BS required, MBA preferred but not required
Minimum Experience:
- 7-10 years at in business development, auto industry experience highly preferred
- Experience in automotive vehicle development and knowledge of automotive value chain
- Experience in a coordination role
- Experience in business development, product development, sales & marketing preferred
- Experience in project management, including setting objectives and performance measurement
- Experience or interest in sustainability, LCA and Data Analytics and their integration into business use cases. Regulatory policy experience preferred but not required
- Experience in drafting business requirements with examples of success preferred
Other Job Specific Skills:
- Requirement Creation
- Strategy Development
- Project Management
- Policy Adherence
- Proficiency in communication and productivity software (Word, PowerPoint), project management software (Excel-based Bullet, MS Project, MS Teams), and flow chart software (Visio)
Job Dimensions
No. of Direct Reports: 0
No. of Indirect Reports: 0
Financial Dimensions:
No. of Indirect Reports: 0
Financial Dimensions:
Decisions Expected
- Digital Product Passport requirements categorization
- Resource management
- Development and project scheduling
Working Conditions
Primarily office environment including desk work and meetings both in-person and remote. Regular conference calls and video conferences with different time zones. Working outside of normal business hours, particularly late evenings for meetings with other time zones (e.g., US Eastern time, Japan). Preparation of proposals required on short timelines. Travel up to 10%.
Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.
