Planner, Product Planning

Nissan•Franklin, TN

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Product Planning team works on the realization of next generation of vehicles for Nissan North America. This involves working from a vehicle concept to create a tangible output to market, and in-market support in order to ensure the achievement of North American sales and profit goals. As a member of the RPM team, the Product Planner guides and manages programs through the planning and lifecycle phases through a product’s life. This is a collaborative position that interfaces with NML, Design, Engineering, Marketing, & Manufacturing. By leveraging their skills, experience and learnings from both their team and customer, the ideal Planner is one who can handle work autonomously while being accountable for their high-quality output and consistent evolution as they grow to be a key member of the organization. As a Product Planner, you will support development of product plans and strategies in cooperation with affiliates based upon consumer, product and market data analysis; initiate changes to these plans and strategies as necessary to ensure appropriateness, given changes in the market environment and/or corporate objectives. Candidates should be flexible multi-taskers with a passion to understand customers and have a general understanding of fundamental US customer automotive motivations, the US market, and the overall Nissan Marketing & Sales business model. In addition, they should possess strong creative and analytical skills and be driven to deliver high quality results where accuracy must be assured.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
3 years of experience in a related area (work must include broad base of analytical aptitude in utilizing historical, statistical, and empirical data in the automotive sector)
Experience in creating clear and compelling data-driven presentations using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint (tables & charts, pivot tables, VLOOKUP, SUM & IF functions).
Work must include broad base of analytical aptitude in utilizing historical, statistical, and empirical data
Must be proficient at proposal storytelling, by developing a robust, clear, data driven and compelling proposal.
Strong understanding of total Product Planning lifecycle

Nice To Haves

Experience working in cross-functional and cross-cultural teams is highly desired, and a willingness and interest to do so is necessary.
Experience using and analyzing syndicated automotive marketing data sources strongly preferred – examples include AutoKnowledge, Autoplanner, S&P Catalyst, JD Power PIN, mTAB, Strategic Vision NVES.
Excellent interpersonal, listening, negotiating, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

Perform data mining and analysis to extract focused customer insights to deeply understand the market and customer
Creates robust proposals using storytelling with clear, data driven, and compelling proposals to drive decision-making
Create a compelling product concept and/or Strategic Platform planning that capitalizes on macro trends & unmet customer needs by incorporating Nissan Brand intention Vehicle expression Strategic advantage Overall future competitiveness
Develops volume and MSRP proposals for future products based on competitive and consumer market trends
Collaborates with other teams, departments and regions/locations to appropriately support Product Planning within various points of the process; in this case - upstream development of assigned projects
Participate in multiple nighttime meetings each week with global counterparts to advance priorities and resolve open issues
Maintain detailed knowledge of assigned vehicle(s) and competitive set
Review PR and Marketing materials for accuracy
Support development of grade strategies and specifications
As necessary, performs other related duties of which the above are representative