Product Planning Leader

Product Planning Leader

Job details

Job Title: Product Planning Leader
Location: Gaydon based,

Salary:�45-50k

Job Purpose:

Support the Head of Product Management, Product Strategy & Planning team and broader Commercial function in the development of customer focused product definition for Aston Martin and lead subsequent delivery to market. Lead interface with the Commercial Take-To-Market (TTM) planning team for future vehicle programmes. Requiring cross-functional working with the commercial team and technical business functions.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

Support product programme related planning, strategy, marketing and commercial activities. In particular, the development of the product strategy, product lifecycle management and interface with the Take-To-Market (TTM) planning team, including:

• Product positioning & messaging
• Customer product attributes requirements
• Product definition
• Volume and pricing strategy
• Feature take rate analysis and strategy
• Options & Colour & Trim strategy/execution
• Development of product launch plans
• Competitor and technology benchmarking
• Define research programme requirements

Lead product planning activities and on-going product strategy development including:

• Liaison with Heads of Carline, Programme Team and Engineering functions, including gateway reviews, engineering reviews and PST meetings
• Global pre-production vehicle planning
• Support TTM team in defining sales & marketing fleet requirements
• Input sales & marketing requirements into product lifecycle plan
• Develop tactical product actions where required
• Product performance reporting (e.g. option take rates)

Lead integration, planning & alignment of the product & programme requirements with regional teams.

• Lead interface with regional product planners (RPP)
• Manage product information & communication channels with RPP's

Undertake other duties as required to achieve the Company's objectives.

Qualification & Experience:

• Proven experience in automotive industry role(s)
• Good presentation skills (written and verbal) and ability to use PowerPoint & Excel
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively up to senior management level
• Excellent planning & organisation skills with ability to think strategically & tactically
• Strong and proven business acumen

Behaviours:

• Collaboration - working together to achieve the business plan requirements.
• Customer focus - understand the finance and operations requirements and align them.
• Communication - articulate and listen to colleagues on a timely basis to ensure there is an honest and two-way communication of the business plan status and risks and opportunities ahead.
• Commitment - focused and fully accountable for supporting the business.
• Continuously challenge and improve - accept that improvements can always be made and supporting a learning culture where mistakes happen, but lessons are then imbedded to make the plan more robust and better.