Product Feature Director
Greensboro, NC, US, 27409
Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match.
What you will do
We are looking for a Product Feature Director, Volvo Trucks North America (VTNA). You will be a part of the global Product Management team working in a high paced and high-energy environment that changes rapidly influenced by market conditions, customer needs and company strategy. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining product feature strategies connected to Volvo’s brand platform ensuring a competitive product position for VTNA market across all product lines.
Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities:
- Ensure long term competitive product features for VTNA by defining product strategies via Wanted Feature Position way of working.
- Perform feature gap analysis, propose main gaps to close in wanted product plan and secure regular update of Feature roadmaps.
- Understand customer decision making process and how Volvo Trucks wanted feature position correlate to “customers willingness to pay".
- Map feature position to profitability analysis by securing voice of customer in various market segments.
- Support with balanced project wanted position with high-level feature content for major projects & streams.
- Manage strategic activities to build business insights and trends to enable strategy and business decision making (e.g. in segmentation, volumes & actual vehicle usage and performance).
- Conduct customer interviews, surveys and apply an “outside in” view to aid in overall feature work and prioritization.
- Liaison between Conventional Product Line team and Volvo Trucks Product Management Strategy team to ensure global view of Total Offer and Wanted Feature Position.
- Work closely with product planning, market intelligence and product marketing to align and drive feature activities.
Who are you?
To be the perfect match for this role, your critical competencies will include:
- Global Development Process (DVP)
- Product knowledge regarding cab, chassis, powertrain or electrical
- Truck market
- Driving for Results
- Courage
- Holistic view
- Influencing
- Inspiring Leadership
- Directing Others
Essential Educational and/or Training Qualifications and Certificates:
You will hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, or related field; MBA preferred.
Preferred Experience and Knowledge:
7 years relevant industry experience in product planning, product marketing, operations or product development within commercial vehicle industry
As a successful product feature director, you will:
- Lead with passion
- Perform with purpose
- Transform with vision
Ready for the next move?
Are you excited to bring your skills and ideas to the table? We can’t wait to hear from you. Apply today!
Who we are and what we believe in
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.
Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment.
At Volvo Trucks you will be part of leading the way towards a sustainable transport industry. For nearly a century we have been innovating for people – to make life easier, better and safer. Driving progress is our promise to customers, to the industry and to society. At Volvo Trucks we share a curiosity to learn, we work with passion and we embrace change to stay ahead. Join us, together we move the world we want to live in.
Nearest Major Market: Greensboro