Business Planning Senior Principal Specialist

What Makes a Honda, is Who makes a Honda

Honda has a clear vision for the future, and it’s a joyful one.  We are looking for individuals with the skills, courage, persistence, and dreams that will help us reach our future-focused goals. At our core is innovation. Honda is constantly innovating and developing solutions to drive our business with record success.  We strive to be a company that serves as a source of “power” that supports people around the world who are trying to do things based on their own initiative and that helps people expand their own potential. To this end, Honda strives to realize “the joy and freedom of mobility” by developing new technologies and an innovative approach to achieve a “zero environmental footprint.”

We are looking for qualified individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, continuous improvement values, and a strong work ethic to join our team.

If your goals and values align with Honda’s, we want you to join our team to Bring the Future!

Job Purpose

Drives the Plant Strategy and Business Plan development and execution.  Enables Departments and Cross-Functional teams to successfully perform their roles.  Ensures initiatives support the achievement of the broader HDMA / NA objectives.   The Business Planning role will promote the strategic intentions of RO business plan directives, interpret, and provide guidance to Plant Leadership to ensure the plant activities align and support the achievement of the organization’s objectives. The individual in the role will represent Plant Leadership to HDMA top executives in Plant’s strategy and business plan development and execution activity that reinforces the characteristics required for achievement of factories’ goals, while maintaining uniformity for the HDMA Company Design.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the Plant’s mid-term strategy and business plan development.  As a representative of the Plant Leadership, collaborate with upstream and downstream customers to ensure strong alignment, performance, and execution through robust PDCA of themes and KPIs
• Drive PDCA on performance metrics, identifying and suggesting focus areas for Plant leadership discussion
• Lead priority themes, studies and continuous improvement activities within Plant by engaging internal stakeholders, and engage other Plants in cross-sharing of best practices
• Develop the Plant story flow and document preparation for HDMA executive review as indicated in the company Business Operation Flow.
• Lead business management process controls and audit functions as it relates to business planning compliance verification
• Maintain the Factory’s Management Manual to align with the HDMA Management Manual Requirements

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Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.