What are the responsibilities and job description for the Customer Program Manager Ford Amplifiers position at Harman International?
HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career.
A Career at HARMAN
As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.
About the Role
Leading a dynamic global cross-functional technical team by planning, organizing, facilitating, and executing product development tasks to bring branded audio amplifiers to our customers.
What You Will Do
What You Will Do
- Manage 4-8 or more audio amplifier vehicle programs
- Support quoting, plan and facilitate tasks to be performed by a global cross-functional team in developing systems. Global areas include China, India, Germany, Mexico, and Michigan.
- Follow corporate product development (or applications) process. Ensure the compliance of team members.
- Ensure prompt decision-making is executed by promoting consensus decisions, intervening when consensus decision-making fails, and making unilateral decisions in the case of a deadlock.
- Establish and manage the program budget.
- Set team goals for timeliness, customer issues, and quality. Lead team to meet goals.
- Negotiate resource allocations from functional managers. When a resource conflict occurs, negotiate a solution with functional managers and other program managers.
- Serve as lead program interface with customers.
- Coordinate and oversee the ordering of prototype and production tooling.
- Track development task completion and report high-level status to management.
What You Need
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or related field.
- 5-10 years of relevant industry experience in Car Audio, Automotive Electronics Products, Program Management, Sales, Quality, Design, Engineering Management, Process Engineering, or Manufacturing Engineering
- 3 years of related experience in Program Management
- Project Planning, problem-solving, and project management skills
What is Nice to Have
- Background in Automotive Electronics and Audio systems.
- Understanding of embedded software in audio electronics.
- PMP certification
- Master’s Degree in Engineering or MBA
What Makes You Eligible
- Be willing to travel up to 10% domestically and internationally; travel and occasionally travel to the customer location and HARMAN Plants.
- Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment
What We Offer
- 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
- Access to HARMAN Campus Fitness Center and Cafeteria
- An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development
- “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program
HARMAN is an Equal Opportunity /Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race,color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin,disability or Protected Veterans status. HARMAN offers a great work environment, challenging career opportunities, professional training and competitive compensation. (
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