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The Director, Cost Engineering & Sustainability defines and executes cost and sustainability engineering strategy across HARMAN's Automotive division. This strategy defines overall profitability, sustainability, and growth goals for HARMAN AUTOMOTIVE and the role is responsible for reaching these goals by driving cross‑functional implementation of technical and commercial measures in collaboration with Procurement, Engineering, Customer Account Management, Manufacturing, and Suppliers.

The role is responsible for optimizing a multibillion‑dollar spend and delivering benchmark performance and defined sustainability goals over multiple years to enable divisional‑level growth results. It reports into Best Cost Analytics in the Strategic Procurement and Partnering Function of our global Operations.

• Establish the vision, goal, framework, processes, and methods needed to enable profitability, sustainability, and growth goals with highly accurate cost/CO2e modeling (TCO) across the entire HARMAN Automotive division (all products, regions, and customers).
• Establish the vision for Lifecycle Assessment of emissions (CO2e) and build capabilities to achieve carbon neutrality per HARMAN Automotive Sustainability objectives.
• Define divisional profitability, sustainability goal, and execution strategy in respective areas with senior leadership of the division.
• Develop, align, and execute division‑wide strategy to assemble and enable highly effective cross‑functional teams, including Procurement, Engineering, Manufacturing, and Account Management, which create overarching profitability, sustainability strategies, and deliver commercial and technical measures.
• Build and enroll strategy with the executive leadership team of HARMAN and suppliers to identify a framework for reaching cost transparency and the best cost that ensures HARMAN's overall competitiveness in the market.
• Support the Make versus buy analysis process for controlling, category, and the operations organization.
• Define and deliver advanced sourcing, design‑to‑cost, CO2e reduction, and manufacturing and sourcing strategy of current and new HARMAN products in close collaboration with state‑of‑the‑art supply chain partners.
• Create and execute a supplier and customer cost negotiation strategy with Procurement and Customer Account teams.
• Ensure day‑to‑day development and delivery of cost & CO2e models by establishing required processes and methods to drive consistent practices within the cost engineering team and reflecting industry best practices, including processes to keep the models up to date with current information and best known methods.
• Develop synergy programs within the Samsung group to leverage scale in business.
• Lead Component Engineering effort across the Division to create a component library that meets HARMAN Automotive's long‑term product strategy, profitability, sustainability, and growth.
• Build a development strategy of internal teams to reach a cost‑conscious mindset across all teams of the Automotive division.
• Lead, coach, and develop staff and through training and succession planning processes to maximize their potential for the benefit of the individual and company.

• Minimum 15+ years of experience in Cost Engineering / Sustainability / VM / Procurement or Manufacturing / Engineering, preferably in the Automotive industry.
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or Economics.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience in cost engineering / VM / design‑to‑cost/manufacturing.
• Minimum 10+ years of experience and ability to lead diverse global teams to improve profitability, sustainability, growth, innovation, and time‑to‑market commitments.
• Proven experience with scientific expertise in Semiconductor as it relates to chip, device, modem, memory device; more than 10 years in the Semiconductor Industry.
• Proven track record of outstanding engaging skills in diverse, cross‑functional teams, including executive stakeholders, to embrace continuous improvement in a highly competitive environment.
• Strong negotiation and relationship‑building skills.

• Master's degree.
• Experience with automotive electronics is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to build cross‑functional collaboration models that identify and implement improvements in the area of sourcing, design, and manufacturing in automotive electronics.
• Experience in corporate‑level design‑to‑cost/manufacturing programs.
• Proven team player with excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Change orientation: Able to adapt to changing demands and conditions.
• German, Chinese, and/or Hungarian language skills are a plus.

• Be willing to travel up to 20%, domestically and internationally.
• Be willing to work in an office in Novi, MI or work remotely full‑time with occasional trips to all HARMAN locations (may be on 24‑hour notice).
• Successfully complete a background investigation and drug screen as a condition of employment (U.S. only).

• Flexible work environment, allowing for full‑time remote work globally for positions that can be performed outside a HARMAN or customer location.
• Access to employee discounts on world‑class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.).
• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University.
• Competitive wellness benefits.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Access to HARMAN Campus Fitness Center and Cafeteria.
• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.

Salary range: $161,250 – $236,500 annually. Depending on the position offered, other forms of compensation such as bonuses or commission may be available. Pay is based on a wide range of factors, including skill set, experience, training, location, and business need. The above range is a reasonable estimate; it has not been adjusted for the applicable geographical differential at the location where the position may be filled.

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. HARMAN strives to hire the best qualified candidates and is committed to building a workforce representative of the diverse marketplaces and communities of our global colleagues and customers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, 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. HARMAN attracts, hires, and develops employees based on merit, qualifications and job‑related performance.

HARMAN is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process, please contact us at harmancareers@harman.com. Requests will be considered on a case‑by‑case basis in accordance with applicable law.