Senior Manager Value Engineering

at  HARMAN International

Location:
HUBudapestVaci Ut 96 13th District
Additional Location:
Budapest, Hungary
Job Family:
Supply Chain Management
Worker Type Reference:
Regular - Permanent
Pay Rate Type:
Salary

ABOUT THE ROLE

The role is responsible for leading the Automotive Value Engineering team and related Value Engineering strategies and methods to improve HARMAN Automotive products value, which creates substantial impact on Harman overall profitability.
The scope of value improvement considers:
Pre & Post SOP Electronics and Acoustics Project Products Function, Material, Processes, SW & License, product quality and carbon
The role is accountable for the Value Engineering and the related cross-functional teams to successfully identify and mature the value pipeline. Define priority across products to maximize impact of Value Management and using state-of-the-art Value Management processes and methods.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Create Vision, Mission and Strategy, and metrics for Value Engineering activities in regards of:

• Standardization of Value Analysis methods and tools across the division
• Define Value Improvement ideation & Pipeline generation methodologies
• Filtering and hardening measures for execution
• Upskilling of division to create a value-conscious product mindset

Define and ensure successful utilization Value Management methods and tools globally by the Automotive Division to analyze value and improve value of complex products and factors. The methods and tools will focus on:

• Value Analysis including Function/Cost analysis
• Commercial idea generation methods and tools
• Technical idea generations methods and tool
• DFX methods and tools

Ensure effective hardening of value improvement measures by defining and rolling out of following activities by cross-functional teams:

• Risk identification and mitigation
• Feasibility checking methods from commercial and technical perspective considering legal, customer requirements and obligations
• Filtering of ideas to maximize impact of divisional value management
• Ensure and own the quality of measures data’s including the software environment and infrastructure to report, track and monitor the VM initiatives
• Ensure team transparency with data and analytics
• Delivering idea generations, ideas, measures to Automotive Value Management PM Organization for execution

Ensure value-conscious mindset across Division by:

• Close cooperation with engineering, operations and program teams during design milestones
• Creating Value Management lessons learned and define projects for continuous improvement
• Developing and roll out of methods and tools
• Train and coach cross-functional teams