Business Strategy Development: Identify new potential markets and business opportunities, develop hypotheses, pursue those opportunities through POC activity in an agile framework for speed and rapid iterative learning, embracing fail early/fail often principles, and documenting learnings to contribute to future business development efforts. This environment should be fast-paced and exciting, working within a small team. The focus of this role is developing business opportunities, then handing them off to other teams for operations, dissolution, or other dispositions as they mature or are wound down.
Development of strategic alliances: Identification and development of strategic partners for business development. This may include industry partners or other entities from other industries that can contribute to realizing a business hypothesis quickly and efficiently with minimum investment by Honda.
People Management: Accountable for unit personnel management long term growth and development, including promotions, short term daily work schedule and work life balance, occasional accommodation of staff members personal life management issues, vacations, time off, assigning job tasks and schedules to appropriate staff, performance appraisals, relaying HR policy, management policy, etc.
Resource Management: Accountable for assessing, requesting, and allocating labor and financial resources in order to meet the companys goals within the groups area of accountability. Includes developing job descriptions, recruitment, interviewing, hiring.
Communication: Accountable for keeping team members, management, and others in the company informed on the progress and direction of the groups efforts. SBD has also become a hub of Honda news and information related to environmental activity throughout the company, and we have a lot of job related to sharing and informing that information throughout the company.
Coordination: Accountable for directing the activities of related teams towards common goals across Honda companies in North America; American Honda Motor Co., Inc. and Honda Development and Manufacturing of America, LLC
Budget Management: Track and report unit financial metrics.