Senior Principal Business Planning Specialist

Job Purpose

• To lead and coordinate planning and operations within Honda's ADC (Auto Development Center) Operations Business Unit.
• This role is essential for standardizing, automating, and innovating processes to achieve productivity and efficiency targets.
• Additionally, the role focuses on engaging associates and ensuring effective communication to foster a collaborative and motivated team environment.

Key Accountabilities

• Leadership and Direction

  • Communicate Strategy and Plans: Clearly articulate the Business Unit’s (BU) strategy and its alignment with the organization’s mission, vision, and values.
  • Operational Priorities: Identify and communicate the necessary actions to achieve the business unit’s strategic priorities.
  • Executive Communication: Translate complex technical, business, and program information into concise executive-level updates.
    • Communicate progress, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to leadership, ensuring timely escalation of issues affecting program targets or cross-functional execution.

• Business Planning and Budgeting

  • Resource Management: Balance priorities and resources to meet business unit objectives.
  • Standardization: Work with business unit management to standardize processes and manage key performance indicators, workforce, and relationships with other business units, suppliers, and vendors.
  • Monitor and review Business Unit performance to ensure compliance with policies and minimize business risk.

Key Accountabilities (Contd.)

• Improvement and Innovation

  • Process Optimization: Identify areas for improvement and implement enhancements across the business unit through strengthened workflows, standardized processes, and Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycles.
  • Innovation Strategy: Establish and execute business plan priorities, ensuring active management across the business unit.

• Operations Business Unit Leadership

  • Subject Matter Experts: Develop operational experts within the business unit to maximize efficiency.
  • Interdivisional Coordination: Foster collaboration across geographically and functionally diverse teams, constructively resolving conflicts and building alignment around common objectives.
  • Operational Balance: Balance work between operations and planning, and lead internal and external communication for the Business Unit.

• Performance Monitoring

• Staff Development

  • Conduct performance appraisals, capability assessments, and succession planning.
  • Address associate relations issues and mentor leaders.
  • Promote a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, innovation, and creative problem-solving.

• Special Assignments

  • Support Associate Development Centers (ADC), business unit, or divisional needs by taking on special assignments as required.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

• Minimum Education

  • A Bachelor's level degree in a related discipline.

• Minimum Work Experience

  • At least 10 or more years of related professional work experience.
  • Demonstrated leadership ability with a proven track record of guiding teams.
  • Proven ability to work cross-functionally to achieve maximum organizational results.
  • Experience establishing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor and ensure progress toward strategic goals.
  • Strong knowledge of Honda operations, policies, and procedures.
  • Excellent project management and process improvement skills.
  • Excellent interpersonal communication, mentoring, and relationship-building skills.
  • Advanced resource management and allocation skills.
  • Advanced ability to analyze complex datasets to support fact-based management decisions.
  • Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills.

Workstyle

• This is an onsite job. One remote workday per week may be possible with prior departmental approval.
  
• Other Physical Requirements: Sitting 80%, Standing 5%, Walking 15%, Lift/Carry upto ~ 50lb 1%
• Annual Travel requirements: Up to ~ 10% - largely domestic; limited international
  • Overtime: overtime expected based on demands/responsibilities
  • Maintains professional conduct and follows all departmental, safety department, and company policies, procedures, and rules

Visa sponsorship issues

• This position is not eligible for work visa sponsorship.