Metallurgy classification :
G14

Department Background :
The Product & Services Planning team's mission is to define the future of Nissan products.
As architects of innovative Products and Services, this department's objective is to represent the AMIEO customer’s voice and translate it into key product and service requirements to deliver the right competitive equation though the life cycle.
Job description:

Mission and Main tasks and responsibilities :

To represent the customer's voice across AMIEO to define innovative and exciting products and services that enrich customer lives.

Main tasks and responsibilities:
- Develop regional product strategy & secure competitiveness while defining it to customer needs and market conditions
- Create and realize product concepts and performance targets
- Define all aspects with Cross Car Line support
- Secure collaboration and engagement of experts and lead them to our concept realization
- Guarantee of product competitiveness through the model life
- Ensure strong collaboration with related functions in Engineering, Styling, Program and Marketing to maximize the value together
- Deliver the voice of the regional customer (Africa, Middle East, India, Europe, Oceania) to Chief Product Specialist counterpart in Japan

Background and Experience:

Skills & experience required for the position :

Background & Experience:

Education:
- Master's degree in one of the following fields or related areas: Automotive Engineering / Product Design / Marketing / Market Research & Customer Trends

Experience:
- 7-10 years of minimum professional experience in positions linked to Product Planning / Product Marketing / Customer Journey & Experience / Customer-Oriented Engineering.
- Experience in one or more of the following areas would be an advantage: Automotive Engineering / Product Design / Marketing / Market Research & Customer Trends.
- Deep understanding of product development process (R&D, Manufacturing, Design, Marketing, PR)

Skills:
- Customer-centric mindset and strategic thinking
- Active interest and in-depth knowledge in automotive industry, mobility solutions and innovation in general
- Resources and team management skills in order to lead, develop and engage team members
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to regularly make presentations with impact to executives, challenge business stakeholders and empower members of the team
- Ability to collect and analyse consumer, market and competitive data and translate it into recommendations and strategies
- Project management expertise
- Financial and business acumen
- Good skills with data analysis tools (JATO/NCBS/IHS) and Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint/Excel)

Requirements:
- Written and oral fluency in English is a must, other language(s) are an advantage
- Valid driving license in France
- Microsoft Office skills
- Interest and knowledge in automotive industry, mobility solutions and innovation in general with customer-centric mindset
- Integrity and ethical values

Skills:

Operational skills:
- Resources, projects & Team Management
- Operational Efficiency: Effectively allocating and overseeing budgets and resources. Streamlining processes to maximize productivity.
- Technical and professional knowledge : Having extended knowledge and understanding of the automotive industry and functional area trends.
- Negotiation skills

Personal skills:
- Strategic Thinking
- Resilience
- Ethical Integrity
- Innovation: Promoting creative thinking and fostering innovation within the organization

Interpersonal skills:
- Collaboration & Teamwork : Conveying ideas logically and clearly. Being able to collaborate, build partnerships and being able to reach agreement or consensus in a context of diverging interests with significant stakes.
- Diversity, Equity and Inclusion : Promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Establishing and sustaining trust-based relationships by accurately perceiving and interpreting one's own and others' emotions and behaviour in the context of the environment; leveraging insights to effectively manage one's own responses and reactions. Seeking solutions though the exchange of diverse opinions and overcoming differences to arrive at more constructive and innovative ideas.

Strategic skills:
-Strategic Planning: Being able to establish strategic guidelines, prioritize team work and determine relevant organization and timing to deliver the expected results.
-Market Analysis: Using economic, financial, and industry data to accurately diagnose business strengths and weaknesses. Analysing commercial and financial data and identifying key issues, developing strategies and plans.
-Change Management: Leading and managing organizational and operational change initiatives.