Product Strategy Management

Inside the Role

In this role, you will be responsible for the Product lifecycle roadmap and overall strategy from the inception to implementation, coordinating different discipline teams and stakeholders through quality gates approval. The position needs to monitor and assure specs, cost, time, quality, and profitability targets are properly met and the lifecycle is designed to keep competitiveness and legal compliance.

In this role, you will be responsible for the Product lifecycle roadmap and overall strategy from the inception to implementation, coordinating different discipline teams and stakeholders through quality gates approval. The position needs to monitor and assure specs, cost, time, quality, and profitability targets are properly met and the lifecycle is designed to keep competitiveness and legal compliance.

The position also manages all the aspects of the products powertrain, electronic architecture and technology features, including the preparation for the Quality Gates approvals. Additional AOR includes Powertrain Roadmap alignment, including engines and transmissions, establishing consistency across all products.

The work includes the current, its future generations and all its key components as electronic architecture, new tech features – including Safety/ADAS/HMI/Telematics.

We provide a scheduled posting end date to assist our candidates with their application planning. While this date reflects our latest plans, it is subject to change, and postings may be extended or removed earlier than expected.

Position offers a starting salary range of $104,000 - $133,000 USD

Pay Offered Dependent On Knowledge, Skills, And experience

Benefits include annual bonus program; 401kcompany contribution with company match up to 6% as well as non-elective company contribution of3 - 7% depending on age;starting at 4 weeks paid vacation; 13+ calendar holidays; 8 weeks paid parental leave; employee assistance program;comprehensive healthcare plans and wellness programs; onsite fitness (at some locations); tuition assistance and volunteer paid time off; short-termand long-term disability plans.

• Plans, monitors, and managing product planning from initiation through quality gates process.
• Work with market data, surveys and analysis to determine customer priorities and key selling points.
• Establish product performance targets based on VOC, competitors’ assessment and future market trends.
• Aligns strategy and plans within Daimler Truck Specialty Vehicles (DTSV) and with DTNA partners for consistency and clarity.
• Ensures project results meet requirements regarding technical quality, reliability, schedule, and cost.
• Monitors performance and recommend schedule changes, cost adjustments or resource additions.
• Identifies market opportunities and associate new product strategies.
• Supports related strategic activities such as Long-Term Volumes, pricing positioning and specs.
• Work with all manufacturing facilities and departments, and interfacing departments for the purpose of analyzing existing structures, methods, systems, and workflows with the objective of streamlining and cost improvement.
• Develops new product value propositions and targeted feature sets.
• Prepares complexity optimization proposals for the chassis/body options.
• This position may be based in High Point, NC;
  Gaffney, SC; or Fort Mill, SC. Regardless of location, the selected candidate will be required to work onsite in High Point, NC, a minimum of two days per week.

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Engineering, Business Administration or related field OR 8 Years of related experience in lieu of a degree
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in Product Strategy or Product Management
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams to execute product development implementation
• Strategic thinking and problem-solving skills to operate with minimal guidance
• Business acumen to ensure proper decisions aligned with the company goals
• Customer and user centric focus aligned with market trends
• Strong ability to lead and influence in a matrix cross functional organization by…