What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager, Lifecycle Vehicles position at Volvo Cars AB?
Imagine the mobility of tomorrow
Picture yourself in an exciting industry where the future revolves around leading-edge electrified and self-driving cars seamlessly integrated into people's daily lives. But how can we create this future in a way that is both safe and sustainable? This is just one of the inspiring questions we're working to solve here at Volvo Cars. Join us and watch your ideas shape the future of mobility.
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Product Manager, Lifestyle Vehicles
Everything we do starts with people. Our purpose is to provide freedom to move, in a personal, sustainable and safe way. We are committed to simplifying our customers’ lives by offering better technology solutions that improve their impact on the world and bringing the most advanced mobility innovations to protect them, their loved ones and the people around them.
Volvo Cars’ continued success is the result of a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive working environment. The people of Volvo Cars are committed to making a difference in our world. Today, we are one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with over 40,000 employees across the globe. We believe in bringing out the best in each other and harnessing the true power of people. At Volvo Cars your career is designed around your talents and aspirations so you can reach your full potential. Join us on a journey of a lifetime as we create safety, autonomous driving and electrification technologies of tomorrow.
What you'll do
- Focused management of designated vehicle lines to ensure models deliver optimum volume, revenue and margin over the vehicle’s entire lifecycle, including new vehicle market introduction (when applicable), model year changes, and sell-down.
- Specification and offer development through option set-up, pricing process, forecasting mix and option take rates that meets the needs of the consumer. This should be competitive in the respective segment and supports optimal residual values.
- Working with the Manager, Product Strategy & Pricing – the Product Manager must ensure pricing strategies offer competitive positions for the Volvo products within their respective segments to develop growth or maintain share while delivering premium profitability.
- Prepare market organization as subject matter expert for model year and new car launch (when applicable).
- The Product Manager will support and prepare VCUSA organization for Model Year introductions by supporting all launch efforts, working closely with the regional Launch team to optimize tactics, demonstrate specifications recommendations, support Customer Experience and regional awareness as the primary model owner/Subject Matter Expert.
- Produce presentations and information for distribution to internal management, VCC HQ, and retailers (including advisory groups) as well as support for the Director, Vehicle Product Planning as necessary.
- Provide Voice of the Customer input into VCC through analysis and presentations that accurately and persuasively defines the needs and opportunities in defined segments.
- Manage key analytics monthly analysis of current model year vehicle KPIs/metrics, including sales, lease, market-share, and competitive analysis and segment tracking.
- Prepare monthly vehicle line narrative (interpretation) & supporting documentation.
- Obtain buy-in from retailer advisory group (NAPAG), corporate and regional constituents on new vehicle proposals.
- Support and influence internal constituents (e.g. Sales Regions, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Customer Experience, and Commercial Sales) in their understanding of your vehicles – support with information regarding product attributes, role and positioning, competitive segment.
What you'll bring
- 5 years of related experience; strong consideration will be given to previous product management or broad automotive experience.
- Solutions-driven, able to overcome objections and advocate for objectives that benefit your vehicles, our customer and the overall business of our company.
- Able to bring constituents together to find solutions; respects and feels comfortable working in a collaborative environment.
- Possess an innate desire to collect, synthesize, and analyze data to support your vehicle strategies
- Strong communication skills. Able to “bring ideas to life” – via written, verbal, and presentations
- Comfortable managing multiple, time sensitive scenarios.
- Ability to influence without any formal authority and effectively persuades others to adopt/accept ideas
- Leads by example, fostering teamwork, and very comfortable in a cooperative environment.
- Leadership skills, generally acquired through 2 or more years of leadership experience.
- Familiarity with internal ordering systems appreciated – VISTA, CPAM; Experian, JD Power PIN.
- Bachelor's Degree from a 4-year college or university.
Volvo Cars – driving change together
Volvo Cars’ success is the result of a collaborative, diverse and inclusive working environment. Today, we’re one of the most well-known and respected car brands, with around 43,000 employees across the globe. At Volvo Cars, your career is designed around your skills and aspirations, so you can reach your fullest potential.
And it’s so exciting – we’re well on our way on our journey towards full electrification. We have five fully electric cars already on the market, and five more on the way. Our fully-electric and plug-in hybrid cars combined make up almost 50 per cent of our sales. So come and join us in shaping the future of mobility. There’s never been a more rewarding time to play your part in our inspiring and creative teams!
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