Job Description

REQUIREMENTS

• A formal 3 years Bachelor's Degree/ National Diploma from a recognized tertiary institution, preferably in Commerce/ Business Science/ Engineering
• Minimum of 3 years of product planning experience (previous product planning experience in the automotive industry will be ideal)
• 3 years experience in sales forecasting/ market research/ brand management/ engineering in the automotive industry

• Strategic and conceptual thinking capability
• Sound understanding of Marketing/ Sales
• Sound understanding of the automotive market and competitive environment
• Strong analytical skills with the ability and inclination to work in detail
• Good communication skills (oral and written)
• Structured thinking approach with sound problem-solving abilities

• A post-graduate qualification
• Speak German or have extensive experience dealing with the German headquarters of a company

• Effectively communicating the company's headquarters requests/ queries to the Africa region's product team and vice versa
• Analysis of market/ competitor, product, price and promotion developments within the motor industry and assessing implications for the brand by continually benchmarking the company's products vs competitor offerings and monitoring industry developments for threats and opportunities to propose appropriate action
• Understand and communicate effectively strategic product plans to satisfy customer requirements and the brand's volume/ share objective in terms of rationale, range specification, target retail pricing, etc.
• Presentation, for approval, of product plans to various forums (eg. PMM, product teams)
• Collecting information and feedback from marketing on cross-divisional teams, forums, and other channels before finalizing product plans
• Implementation of product plans as marketing representative in cross-divisional project team meetings
• Planning and implementation of feasibility studies for potential models to be imported into Africa, including vehicle clinics
• Planning and implementation of all passenger FBU models utilizing the Group MBV system
• Maintaining the Group MV system to ensure all vehicle specifications are accurate
• Maintaining and distributing vehicle specification information to the organization in illustrating key differences and similarities to competitor offerings
• Coordinating and facilitating the launch management process to ensure all areas of the NSO organization and related systems, including compliance topics, are updated for relevant models
• Implementation of the pallet planning from pricing and the series of finance applications into the MBV state sales program
• Knowledge, maintenance, and application of the MBV system (state sales program)

Abantu Staffing Solutions