Manager, Business Ventures

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: 

The Program Manager of the EYNS projects must be a business builder & leader. The PM leads the internal Honda team, works collaboratively with the EYNS leadership team, owns the end-to-end success of the venture, and makes key strategic decisions. The PM brings together a multi-disciplinary team to build ground-breaking tech and address a long long-standing growing market need.
Complete P&L ownership and collaboration with AHM leadership to agree and deliver on P&L targets (e.g., revenue, EBIT, etc.)

Key Accountabilities:

• Set the vision for the company and define the overall strategy from launch to scale, including long-term goals to achieve consistent results and exponential growth
• Attract, retain & develop world-class talent, including making recruitment decisions of full leadership team, while cultivating a high-performing and agile one-team culture
• Drive day-to-day operations and align resources to achieve key business priorities 
• Proactively mitigate business, operational & governance risks while driving continuous improvement 
• Own the operational budget and manage burn rate while growing the business ahead of market disruptions
• Manage competition and threats in the marketplace, with constant evaluation of financial structure, capital strategy & strategic priorities
• Regularly report updates to the Venture Board and key stakeholders regarding progress on strategic priorities, and collaborate with the Supervisory Board to accelerate progress
• Establish credibility throughout the customer and partner network through authentic engagement and drive solutions to address core business challenges and serve as external spokesperson and public champion for the business
• P&L responsibility for the PM. The PM will need to work with AHM leadership to agree and deliver on P&L targets (e.g., Revenue, EBIT)

Qualifications, Experience and Skills:

Minimum Educational Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, engineering or related field 
• Master’s degree preferred

Minimum Experience:

• 10+ years of experience developing strategies for new business development and executing into operations.
• 3+ years of experience formally leading others and/or project
• Track record of building successful products and high-caliber teams from the ground up, ideally in current/prior roles
• Experience managing Board of Directors and corporate partners through regular updates on business performance and progress
• Ability to set direction and strategy through different phases of growth and implementation.

Other Job-Specific Skills:

• Experience working in a start-up / agile organization which went through platform builds while leading cross-functional digital teams and departments 
• Providing expert guidance to all functional areas, including operations, sales & product
• Understand technical concepts and how to factor into decision-making
• Strong stakeholder management at a C-suite level 
• Preference for industry expertise and know-how to drive day-to-day operational success aligned to company strategic vision 
• Has architected companies' vision and short-term & long-term strategic goals 
• Demonstrated track record of instilling and leading a word-class working culture
• Able to double hat as a people leader, technical leader and community leader 
• Demonstrates awareness of technical audiences and how to engage them in non-technical decision-making 
• Knows how to cultivate talent and create organizational-wide buy-in to the vision
   

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.