Center of Excellence Function Lead

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

Provides for the acquisition, development, maintenance, and support of information technologies and tools required to facilitate the internal clients’ business operations and interaction with external business partners and customers. Provides application development support throughout all stages of the software development lifecycle. Acts as the liaison between the internal client and external development resources communicating and clarifying requirements, facilitating testing feedback, and managing the deliverables.

Key Accountabilities

• Independently identifies business process improvement opportunities across LOB’s and builds business case to encourage implementation. Reviews new business process designs or process design changes for conformance to existing standards and strategies; issues recommendations to CAB/BDC. Develop metrics to judge success.
• Performs process analysis, requirements definition, design and simulation of FICO, OTC, PTP, or SCM functions. Works with technical team and end users to map new business processes or potential enhancements on SAP and interfaced systems. Coordinates work of consultants and/or AMS engaged for specific initiatives for the assigned functional area.
• Owns and maintains functional design documentation to reflect business process changes, in accordance with Change Management policies. Ensures functional business requests are consistent with governance strategy and the IS business support model. Coordinates effectively between functional, AMS, and technical team members to deliver break/fix and enhancement changes.
• Communicates change impact items to user community timely & effectively
• Create and maintain systems documentation including high-level design, process maps, features, and dependencies
• Determine best method to affect training of operators on new applications/modifications and support development of training documentation. Select and train “Super Users” where appropriate.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

Minimum Educational Qualifications :

• Bachelor degree or equivalent work experience (Required)

Minimum Experience :

• Strong analytical skills (Required)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills (Required)
• Project organization and management
• International travel (Required)

Other Job-Specific Skills :

• Extensive experience with enterprise application development and support
• Familiarity with sales, purchasing, and manufacturing operations
• Exposure to accounting and finance principles and standards
• Implementation of enterprise applications
• Experience configuring and supporting enterprise applications in production at Honda Trading of America (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, eMO, Amber Road, PLEX, 3rdwave)

Job Dimensions

No. of Direct Reports: 0

No. of Indirect Reports: 3-5 functional AMS contractor consultants

Financial Dimensions : Analysis of month-end closing reports and financial statements in support of LOB’s and Accounting & Finance

Decisions Expected

• Prioritization of daily activities to meet agreed objectives and requests to re-prioritize activities, revise schedules, or get additional resources to achieve agreed objectives
• Determining need for conference calls and meetings and proposed meeting times, locations, attendees, and agenda as necessary
• When to escalate an issue to Supervisor and a proposed course of action based on understanding of situation
• Establish contacts with outside trading partners for initial setup and issue resolution
• Resolve daily operational issues through collaboration with software vendor

What differentiates Honda and make us an employer of choice?

Total Rewards:

• Competitive Base Salary (pay will be based on several variables that include, but not limited to geographic location, work experience, etc.)
• Paid Overtime
• Regional Bonus (when applicable)
• Industry-leading Benefit Plans (Medical, Dental, Vision, Rx)
• Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, shutdown
• Company Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• 401K Plan with company match + additional contribution
• Relocation assistance (if eligible)

Career Growth:

• Advancement Opportunities
• Career Mobility
• Education Reimbursement for Continued Learning
• Training and Development programs

Additional Offerings:

• Tuition Assistance & Student Loan Repayment
• Lifestyle Account
• Childcare Reimbursement Account
• Elder Care Support
• Wellbeing Program
• Community Service and Engagement Programs
• Product Programs
• Free Drinks Onsite

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.