Our global motorcycle manufacturing client is urgently looking to fill the following role:
Group Manager: Motorcycle Product Strategy - £60k-80k p.a. + benefits - Leicestershire
Role:
The Global Product Planning and Strategy’ team aims to create product plans that engage their customers, deli...More...
Our global motorcycle manufacturing client is urgently looking to fill the following role:
Group Manager: Motorcycle Product Strategy - £60k-80k p.a. + benefits - Leicestershire
Role:
The Global Product Planning and Strategy’ team aims to create product plans that engage their customers, deliver strong financial returns, and meet or exceed all regulatory requirements. The team provides the necessary analysis and support to make key strategic decisions in the area of long-term vehicle forecasting in all regions of the globe. The team conducts market research to instil a deep customer understanding into the client's brand and product development activities, defining segmentation and overall marketing strategy.
Key responsibilities:
Your key responsibilities will include, but not limited to:
- Reporting to the head of Global Product Strategy, you will be responsible for product managing a product (or family of products) within the clients' Motorcycle range, delivering the strategic product objectives for vehicle development; including feature requirements and pricing and volumes.
- Identifying brand and customer requirements, you will work to translate these requirements into deliverable engineering metrics to ensure successful product development.
- As a Product Manager, you will be responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for that product or product family.
- Your role will span many activities from strategic to tactical and provides cross-functional communication, bridging gaps within the company between different functions; most notably between engineering-oriented teams, sales and marketing, and support.
- You will be the voice of the consumer inside the business.
- First and foremost, you must be passionate about motorcycles and fully immersed in the user experience. You will need to be out there testing the product, talking to users and getting feedback first hand.
- As a Product Manager focused on maximising business value you should be obsessed with optimising your products to achieve the business goals while maximising return on investment.
- You will need to carry out extensive research into the market, your customer, their desires and their problems which you’re trying to solve
- The ability to write design briefs, QFD documents and feature prioritisation is a must.
- Whilst you will not be engineering or designing the product, understanding the technology stack and most importantly understanding the level of effort involved is crucial to making the right decisions.
- A comprehensive understanding of the NPI process is vital.
- You will build actionable plans to reach your vision. You will follow a formalised design briefing methodology which will be up issued at each stage of the concept phase of the design process.
- You will be detail oriented as you work day in, day out with the development team as a product owner; defining and iterating the product as you go, solving problems as they arise and closely managing scope so you can ensure that the product is out in the market on time.
- Once the product is in the market you will analyse data looking at how customers use the product, go out and talk to them about the motorcycle and generally eating, sleeping and breathing the product.
Success Metrics for the Role:
- Be the translator and diplomat unifying all people in the company vested in the product.
- Represent the customer.
- Define and represent the product roadmap.
- Along with product designers and engineers you play a key role in the product development process to ensure the right product is in the market at the right time.
- Develop business cases and volume assessments for your product using rigorous research and analytics in the automotive and motorcycle industries.
- Execute the marketing deliverables as part of the client's New Product Development Stage/Gate process.
- Develop and maintain a Competitive Product database.
- Develop Project Definitions, defining project targets, scope and timelines.
- Evaluate engineering prototypes at various stages of development.
- Work with marketing to coordinate product launch plans including timing, pricing, product materials, talking points, training, etc.
- Write user stories with detailed requirements and clear acceptance criteria.
- Determine build-out strategies for each model year and end of the model’s lifecycle.
Key Attributes:
- Degree in economics or engineering with a strong focus on marketing or product management.
- 12 to 15 years of Product Management or Development experience in a product driven company with a global customer base.
- Experience of developing and managing product/feature business cases, including volume and pricing assessment.
- Proven success in all phases of the product life cycle; identification of need, development of product requirements, product design, quality and production hand-off, launch and ongoing product management.
- An in-depth knowledge of the automotive or motorcycle market. Passion for motorcycles and motorcycle license.
- Fluency in English (additional languages would also be advantageous).
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- Confident and effective negotiator; able to consistently reach positive outcomes whilst building positive internal and external relationships.
- Self-initiative and an independent working attitude, as well as flexibility and determination.
- Excellent strategic and analytical skills.
- Drive, determination and a willingness to take on responsibility.
- A customer-focused and quality-oriented mind-set.
- Ability to work across borders in a complex environment with multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Willingness to travel and work unsociable hours.
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