Location:
Ulm - Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Additional Location:
Boblingen - Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, Garching - Bavaria, Germany - Parking 1-5 Business Campus, Karlsbad - Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Job Family:
Engineering
Worker Type Reference:
Regular - Permanent
Pay Rate Type:
Salary
Career Level:
T4
Job ID:
R-47548-2025

ABOUT THE ROLE

As the RFQ Manager in the global RFQ (Request for Quotation) team, you will be part of the rapidly growing Business Unit Connectivity. You will contribute significantly to the growth of our hardware, software and services business. You will report to the Director Global RFQ. There are no direct reports associated with this position.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• You will work closely with our sales organization to identify and win new Connectivity business globally. Connectivity includes communications modules, V2X, antennas, gateways and related systems and software.
• Working in cooperation with Customer Account Management sales managers, you will engage early with our Automotive OEMs (research, engineering) and represent our Business Unit with technical expertise at the customer to maximize our Connectivity business.
• You will work closely with customer engineering teams to understand requirements, influence the customers’ technical direction and build confidence in Harman’s products and product delivery capabilities.
• Coordinating technical peer meetings between Harman experts and customer peers to enable technical dialogs that could influence customer specifications and RFQs.
• You will manage the creation of proposals in response to RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs for Connectivity solutions based upon customer requirements.
• Active steering during RFI/RFQ-phase to compile feasibility studies and to complete product performance specification.
• Coordination of all requirement engineering activities and requirement analysis
• Steering of Team 1 with related sub-teams and external suppliers
• Top level planning and controlling
• Report out to customer and internal management and peer teams.
• Align technical and commercial program targets with functional departments.
• You will work closely with Product Management to feed that function with customer requirements and creative ideas in order to define and develop differentiating products.
• You will work closely with solution architect and make sure that all required aspects are covered well in technical proposal and also in BOM
• You will work with finance, procurement, engineering and manufacturing team to collect all required BC inputs and make sure that BC is prepared along with finance team and its reviewed with required stakeholder before approval gates