Strategic Market Insights Manager - Automotive Domain

Strategic Market Insights Manager

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Automotive

HARMAN Automotive is seeking a Manager, Strategic Market Insights, to join the SBU Connectivity Strategy team.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with strong analytical skills, knowledge of automotive technology, and the ability to communicate a clear point of view to senior stakeholders. This role requires someone who can go beyond collecting data and summarizing reports. The successful candidate will identify what the information means for the business, where risks and opportunities exist, and what actions HARMAN should consider.

What You’ll Be Part Of

This role will be responsible for translating market trends, competitor activity, customer signals, and technology developments into actionable insights that shape business, product, and partnership decisions.

How You’ll Make An Impact

- Develop market and competitive intelligence insights that support SBU Connectivity strategy, product roadmap, and portfolio decisions.
- Monitor automotive, connectivity trends, OEM requirements, technology shifts, and ecosystem developments.
- Translate external market signals into business implications, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
- Partner with product, portfolio, sales, engineering, finance, and strategy teams to understand business questions and provide decision-relevant intelligence.
- Create executive-ready deliverables, including changes in market trends/dynamics, HARMAN competitive advantages and disadvantages, and strategic recommendations on opportunities and partnerships to explore.
- Establish a proactive intelligence cadence, including regular updates, alerts, and leadership briefings.
- Support strategic planning, scenario development, market sizing, and long-term growth assumptions.
- Build and maintain competitive intelligence assets that help teams understand market position, competitor movements, and product differentiation.
- Communicate insights clearly and confidently to senior stakeholders.

What Makes You A Strong Fit

- Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, economics, technology, or related field; MBA preferred.
- Overall 10 + yrs of experience and at least 8+ years of experience in product strategy, corporate strategy, consulting, competitive intelligence or related fields.
- Experience in automotive, mobility, or automotive electronics industries.
- High curiosity, strong ownership, and proactive operating style.
- Strong ability to synthesize complex information into clear insights and recommendations.
- Demonstrated ability to assess business implications, risks, and opportunities from market and competitive data.
- Strong executive communication and presentation skills.
- Ability to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders without formal authority.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and forming recommendations with incomplete data.
- Proficient with AI tool usage.

Bonus Points if You Have

- Knowledge of telematics connected services, SDV, cloud platforms, and/or, automotive software domains.

Things To Know

- Be willing to work in a HARMAN office in India.
- Limited travel required.

What You Can Expect

- HARMAN FlexConnect Program, offering a flexible hybrid work environment that fosters stronger collaboration, meaningful connections, and innovation through a minimum of three in-office days per week.
- Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.)
- Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University
- Competitive wellness benefits
- An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.

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