Senior Business Transformation Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Champion and implement Business Transformation projects to execute the Automotive Strategy
• Work collaboratively with the functions / business / external consultants to design, execute and lead teams through organizational change to drive short, medium, and long-term value
• Lead in-depth review focusing on identifying full potential, target setting, action/measure tracking, and gap closure to benchmark.
• Act as a sparring partner for leaders to increase speed, challenging the status quo, breaking down functional silos, relentless prioritization, and faster execution
• Ensure initiatives drive implementation and guide each to fast and pragmatic execution
• Hold the team accountable for the results and infuse a sense of urgency. Bring clarity, transparency, and insights to drive effective decision-making and course correction
• Support change management efforts to drive high-performance culture and coach team members on transformation behaviors and mindset change. Act as a role model in the deployment of the Automotive target culture
• Ensure connectivity across the workstreams to leverage best practices and knowledge sharing

Qualification & Requirements

What You Need

• 8+ years of experience in any of the areas – Business Operations, Business Consulting, Restructuring/Turnaround, M&A Integration, or Business Project Management
• Undergraduate degree in Engineering Management, Finance, Engineering, or other business management discipline
• Experience managing and leading large-scale improvement efforts to completion
• Critical Skills: Teamwork, result orientation, strong analytics skills, impactful communication skills, both written and verbal, with an ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences

What Is Nice To Have

• Master’s Degree, MBA or equivalent
• Certification of Lean Six Sigma or any Improvement methodology

Benefits

• HARMAN offers a diverse and inclusive work environment that fosters and encourages career development opportunities, professional training and competitive market base compensation
• You will also receive top-notch employee discounts on Harman’s Consumer Audio (JBL, AKG, HARMAN Kardon) and Samsung products
• Flexible work schedule with a culture encouraging work life integration and collaboration in a global friendly working atmosphere and good work-life-balance
• Attractive salary package based on the Metall & Elektro Tarif Baden Wurttemberg and an Employer contribution towards a company pension plan
• Professional development opportunities through HARMAN University’s business and leadership academies which also includes extensive technical trainings
• Internal talent management leadership acceleration programs
• “Be Brilliant” employee recognition and rewards program