Harman International Industries

Global Engineering Delivery Lead, SBU Connectivity

Harman International Industries • $240K — $352K *
Novi, MI 48375In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
1 week ago
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years experience in leading engineering and delivery organizations, preferably in automotive
  • Proven track record managing multi-million dollar budgets
  • Experience with customer and product-based development in a matrix organization
  • Demonstrated success in cultural transformation across geographically diverse teams
  • Strong financial acumen related to program profitability and adherence to KPIs
  • Transformational leadership capability
  • Customer-focused mindset with emphasis on engineering excellence

Responsibilities

  • Lead global teams delivering customer-specific engineering solutions across regions
  • Collaborate closely with product teams to maximize asset usage and deliver high-quality products
  • Drive financial performance and customer program success in conjunction with sales leadership
  • Research and implement best practices for engineering excellence with urgency
  • Cultivate strong partnerships with sales and customer program management organizations
  • Enhance customer satisfaction through effective relationship management
  • Synthesize feedback from customers for future product development

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment supporting full-time remote work
  • Employee discounts on Harman and Samsung products
  • Access to extensive training via HARMAN University
  • Wellness benefits that promote employee health
  • Tuition reimbursement for ongoing education
  • Employee recognition and rewards program
  • Inclusive workplace culture that supports professional growth
Full Job Description
About the Role

The Global Delivery Lead for SBU Connectivity oversees all customer delivery. You will lead a 660+ people organization, responsible for the full delivery of complex automotive projects through OEMs worldwide, in strong partnership with HARMAN's sales organization & SBU Business leaders in the regions. In this capacity you report directly to the Senior Vice President of the Connectivity SBU. You are passionate about increasing speed and quality through adoption of state-of-the art tools and methodologies. In the regions we do business in you are responsible for the teams that deliver directly to our customers. You and your team play a key role in creating and maintaining productized assets, while partnering with our product organization to deliver Consumer Experiences Automotive Grade across the connectivity landscape.

Your Team

This position will have 3 direct reports who each lead a large global organization in the areas of Program Delivery, SW Delivery and Test & Validation.

What You Will Do
  • Lead the SBU Connectivity Delivery organization in providing customer specific engineering and delivery through uniform regional organizations in Europe, North America, Japan and India
  • Deliver products and maximize product and core asset usage through close collaboration with the product organization
  • Deploy business acumen beyond satisfying customers towards a joint business ownership mindset w/ products leadership team
  • Co-own financial success on a program and customer level with the sales & business leads. Drive financial performance to the level agreed upon in business cases and near and long financial plans
  • Partner with the engineering excellence implementation team to drive agreed upon excellence throughout the organization with urgency. Passionately drive the team to use benchmark tools and methodologies
  • Build strong working partnerships with the broader sales organization and specifically the Customer Program Management organization
  • Build strong partnerships with engineering organizations at customers to drive customer satisfaction on current developments and synthesize inputs for future products


What You Need to Be Successful
  • Clearly demonstrated recent technical and cultural transformation of large, geographically distributed engineering teams to use agreed upon methodologies and tools to develop complex HW+SW systems at consumer speed. Automotive experience preferred
  • Demonstrated proof points of successfully bringing together engineering and sales organizations to deliver programs on time, on budget, with required quality
  • Demonstrated financial experience to drive customer near and long-term profitability with the sales organization, as well as adherence to development KPIs
  • Proven track record leading an organization responsible for multi-million dollar of annual revenue to agreed upon financial metrics, while continuously driving financial efficiency and cost measures across a full P&L
  • Shown the ability through clear examples of building a workable mixed model between custom and product-based developments in a matrixed organization
  • Transformational leadership.
  • Ability to act as role model and drive the adoption of Harman target culture and leadership framework
  • Customer success mindset


Bonus Points if You Have
  • Experience driving efficiency through tools and methodology, including Artificial Intelligence
  • Exposure to working abroad, leading engineering teams
  • Demonstrated program Delivery expertise in a large, multi-national Automotive company


What Makes You Eligible
  • Your teams and customers are global. Your travel is estimated at 50%, both domestically and internationally
  • HARMAN Automotive operates with a mix of in-person and virtual meetings. The virtual meetings will require you to be flexible outside normal working hours to accommodate the global nature of your team and our customers
  • Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment
  • You are able to clearly communicate in English. Bonus if also bilingual in German &/or Japanese
  • Because this is a hybrid role, commuting to our local office will be required each week.


What We Offer
  • Flexible work environment, allowing for full-time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location
  • Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.)
  • Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
  • Competitive wellness benefits
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • "Be Brilliant" employee recognition and rewards program
  • An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development


Salary Ranges:

$ 240,000 - $ 352,000

About Harman International Industries

Harman International Industries, Incorporated is an American company that designs and engineers connected products for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide, including connected car systems, audio and visual products, enterprise automation solutions; and services supporting the Internet of Things. With leading brands including AKG, Harman Kardon, Infinity, JBL, Lexicon, Mark Levinson and Revel, HARMAN is admired by audiophiles, musicians and the entertainment venues where they perform around the world. More than 50 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and connected car systems. The Company's software services power billions of mobile devices and systems that are connected, integrated and secure across all platforms, from work and home to car and mobile. HARMAN has a workforce of approximately 30,000 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
Learn more about Harman International Industries
Size
30,000 employees
Industry
Consumer Technology
Founded
1980
* Ladders Estimates

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