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HAHarman International Industries Limited

Experienced Manager - Strategic Early Engagement(m/w/x)

Karlsbad
Full-timeWith Home OfficeSenior

Driving pre-RFI customer engagement and building trusted partnerships with OEM stakeholders. 15+ years of automotive early engagement experience required. Employee discounts on Harman and Samsung products, flexible work schedule.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree (master's preferred) in business, engineering, or related field
  • 15+ years of Automotive experience in early engagement / pre-sales / business development
  • Confidence working with OEM stakeholders
  • Strong relationship-building skills
  • Ability to earn access and engagement with cross-functional customer influencers
  • Ability to turn VOC and market/competitive data into clear opportunity strategies and internal actions
  • Strong execution discipline: planning, prioritisation, and delivery across multiple parallel initiatives in a matrix setup
  • Comfortable applying and reinforcing standard methods and tools (pipeline hygiene, documentation, playbooks)
  • Specialised depth/breadth in the field
  • Works independently with guidance only in complex situations
  • Leads others to solve complex problems
  • Leads projects impacting the sub-function
  • Manages external vendors with accountability
  • Willingness to travel up to 25%, domestic and international
  • Willingness to work in an office 2+ days a week
  • Willingness to work at the customer's on-site location

Tasks

  • Drive pre-RFI customer engagement
  • Build trusted partnerships with OEM stakeholders
  • Expand engagement to planning, pre-development, tech scouting, marketing, and business leadership
  • Identify and qualify new opportunities based on market trends
  • Translate customer insights into product positioning and roadmap discussions
  • Validate new product offerings with customers
  • Capture actionable feedback on product offerings
  • Support early opportunity enablement
  • Mature concepts and validate feasibility
  • Co-create customer-facing narratives
  • Support downstream pursuits
  • Contribute to innovative go-to-market models
  • Work with OEM business teams on partnership concepts
  • Apply standard methods and tools for early engagement
  • Maintain accurate pipeline and engagement documentation
  • Ensure transparency for CAM and pursuit planning
  • Lead project work impacting the sub-function
  • Coordinate external vendors for showcases and events

Work Experience

  • 15 years

Education

  • Bachelor's degreeOR
  • Master's degree

Languages

  • EnglishBusiness Fluent

Benefits

Corporate Discounts

  • Employee discounts on Harman's Consumer Audio and Samsung products

Flexible Working

  • Flexible work schedule
  • Work-life integration

Informal Culture

  • Collaboration
  • Global friendly working atmosphere

Family Support

  • Good work-life-balance

Learning & Development

  • Professional development opportunities
  • Extensive technical trainings

Career Advancement

  • Internal talent management leadership acceleration programs

Other Benefits

  • Employee recognition and rewards program
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