Cost Innovation Project Lead Development

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 Cost Innovation (CI) project lead Development is responsible for Cost Reduction(CR)  activities for SxS/ATV/PE/L&G products. Implement various CR activities in collaboration with purchasing, production, and GO, and work with the new model development team to achieve business cost targets.

Key Accountabilities



• Support New Model Development: Preliminary Cost Planning Based on the current model costs, proceed with cost planning that includes increasing the added value costs of the new model and defining the CR target.

• Centralized management of CR ideas in a database Utilize Honda's global CR database to manage CR ideas at AH and advance their application to new models.

• Promoting CR in mass production design changes, Support Drawing Issue for CR By integrating readily applicable CR ideas with DEB (Developmental Engineering) and applying them to mass production, costs can be reduced.

• Optimizing manufacturing processes in collaboration with suppliers Understand the supplier's manufacturing process and optimize the manufacturing process by modifying drawings to make them easier to produce.

• Improvement of in-house manufacturing processes Understand the manufacturing process for in-house parts and optimize the design drawings.  Integrate this knowledge into drawings and Cost Reduction.

• Development of new suppliers Collaborate/Support with purchasing and develop new suppliers.

• Formulation of a parts strategy Support Development of procurement strategies and component strategies that incorporate specification evolution.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills



• Bachelors or Associates degree 2 years’ experience or 6+ years of applied work experience.

• Minimun 2 years’ of job related