Senior Product Manager
INEOS Automotive
Based: Raleigh, North Carolina INEOS Automotive North America HQ
- Expansion role
- Scale-up business with large investment
- An unparalleled opportunity to establish a new automotive Manufacturer in the USA, Canada & Mexico
Your Career: As the Senior Product Manager for INEOS Automotive you will work within a scale-up and fast-moving environment. You will be surrounded by a team of experts in their field and be given the autonomy and freedom to develop the role as we grow.
The Role: The Product Manager role is the crucial interface between regional and central functions for all product related topics. Acting as the voice of the customer for the USMCA region, ensuring that regional customer requirements are met and the most competitive, profitable and healthy product strategy is implemented.
The successful candidate will collaborate with the central product and engineering teams to reflect the needs of the individual Americas markets in pre-launch, post-launch and lifecycle planning phases. This is a crucial role holding the responsibility to develop and deploy a 360-degree product strategy for the Grenadier (and future INEOS vehicle lines) from inception to launch and across the entire vehicle, trim, feature, accessory, service and aftermarket offerings. The Product Manager will work closely with senior stakeholders in the Americas region and globally.
INEOS Automotive: We have one goal; manufacture, launch and deliver an uncompromising, best-in-class 4x4 for those who depend on a vehicle as a working tool. It’s been an exciting journey since our inception in 2017. We’ve flown through many milestones and, despite the global challenge of the last year, we’re on track to deliver our plan. 2021 and 2022 are the years where we establish the bedrock of our business and put our plans into action. As the new Product Manager you will play a huge part in this. If you have the experience; if you’re confident and capable enough to join a scale-up business and you share in our pragmatic, no-nonsense enthusiasm to take on a career defining role, then INEOS Automotive is ready to welcome you.
For the Senior Product Manager we are looking an individual who will:
- Create, evolve and manage regional product strategy for all markets across the USMCA Region
- Proactively drive regional requirements into central mid- and long-term product planning strategy, ensuring clear communication of regional dynamics, developments and opportunities are considered and reflected
- Act as the regional owner for all product topics, regularly conversing with, listening to and obtaining the counsel of the retailer network and regional business management teams
- Competitor benchmarking; report on specification, pricing and strategies in all markets across the Region, in close cooperation with regional business managers
- Calculation/preparation of business cases for USMCA specific product needs for further assessment of wider commercial and engineering teams.
- Create regional training programmes and documentation that effectively educate the entire regional retailer and business management teams on all aspects of INEOS products
- Own regional industry data sources – such as IHS – to monitor and create predictions on industry developments and opportunities
- Work closely with the Marketing communications team on campaigns and partnerships to increase product awareness and demonstrate technical capabilities
- Accountable for understanding, tracking and communication of Certification and Homologation requirements, developments in taxation (e.g. CO2 penalties) as well as technical and regulatory developments in the Americas markets.
This important role in the Americas team requires extensive experience, a can-do attitude and an appetite to create a top-quality service infrastructure across multiple key markets. If your experience and background equips you for this and the role sounds of interest to you, please apply. Please include a covering letter that supports your application along with any other supporting information.
The Senior Product Manager will be based in Raleigh, North Carolina.
It is a prerequisite for the role that the successful candidate has the legal right to work in the USA
If your applications is successful one of the team will be in touch to arrange an initial conversation!