Product Strategy & Planning Mgr. – Specialist III

Inside the Role

The Product Strategy & Planning Manager is 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.

Posting Information

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.

We Take Care of Our Team

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; 401k company contribution with company match up to 6% as well as non-elective company contribution of 3 - 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-term and long-term disability plans. 

What You Drive at DTNA

• 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 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.

Knowledge You Should Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Engineering, Business Administration or related field

• 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 goas

• Customer and user centric focus aligned with market trends

• Strong ability to lead and influence in a matrix cross functional organization by collaborating with key stakeholders in sales, engineering, finance and operations

• Good written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to work independently with initiative and resilience

• Results and detailed oriented

Exceptional Candidates Might Have

• MBA

• Automotive experience

• Good technical/mechanical understanding of chassis, engines, bus and RVs systems

• Experience in Marketing

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Where We Work

This position is open to applicants who can work in (or relocate to) the following location(s)-

Fort Mill, SC US, Gaffney, SC US, High Point, NC US. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Schedule Type:

Hybrid (4 days per week in-office / 1 day remote). This schedule builds our #OneTeamBestTeam culture, provides an unparalleled customer experience, and creates in