Customer Project Manager
Customer Project Manager
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Job Description
HARMANs engineers and designers are creative purposeful and agile. As part of this team youll 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 youll discover that at HARMAN you can grow make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.
About the Role
We are seeking a Customer Project Manager with 3 to 5 years of working experience to lead customer-facing initiatives in our global automotive tier-1 B2B business. The ideal needs to have a global mindset which is essential to assure success in our global working environment with customers headquartered in Japan and our internal teams being globally based.
Your Team
This position is part of respective Customer account teams acting as a customer project manager and collaborating across business units and departments HR finance and quality to achieve business goals within the constraints of quality budget and time.
What You Will Do
- Develop detailed project plans to outline scope deliverables and timelines.
- Monitor progress against established schedules ensuring milestones are met.
- Ensure that all project deliverables are completed on time within scope and on budget.
- Identify potential project risks early and implement effective mitigation strategies.
- Facilitate regular updates and reviews with cross-functional teams to ensure transparency and alignment.
- Proactive resource planning and talent development
- Leverage data-driven insights to support decision-making and optimize project outcomes.
- Provide clear actionable status reports to both internal and external stakeholders.
What You Need
- Educational Background: Bachelors degree in engineering computer science business administration or related field.
- Professional Experience: 35 years in project management ideally in automotive connectivity or cockpit solutions for global teams.
- Technical Acumen: Strong knowledge of automotive infotainment telematics or cockpit electronics; skilled in communicating technical concepts.
- Leadership: Proven record of delivering complex projects on time within scope and budget in dynamic environments.
- Interpersonal Skills: Exceptional collaboration and clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Problem-Solving: Proactive in identifying risks and devising effective solutions.
- Global Perspective: Experience managing multi-regional and cross-cultural projects.
- Continuous Growth: Committed to staying current on automotive connectivity and user experience trends.
- Excellent English and Japanese communication skills.
- This combination of technical expertise leadership and collaborative mindset will enable a candidate to excel in managing projects at the cutting edge of connectivity and intelligent cockpit solutions.
What is Nice to Have
- Experience with project management tools.
- Understanding of Harmans development methodologies.
What Makes You Eligible
- Be willing to travel if necessary domestic and international travel.
- Be willing to work in an office manufacturing facility client-site.
- This role is eligible to partially work remotely.
- Successfully complete a background investigation/Aptitude Test as a condition of employment.
What We Offer
- We offer an authentic diverse equal and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development in a truly global organization.
- You will work on products and services that touch peoples lives and will change the industrial standards being a part of the transformations in our industry.
- Our work environments are fast paced challenging empowering collaborative flexible and exciting.
- We offer our own HARMAN University with regular updates on the new technologies and trends by utilizing various sessions organized by Self Learning and Development Trainings to help grow and advance talent.
- We offer competitive compensation/benefit programs and recognition programs.
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HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard torace religion color national origin gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
