Brand Product Manager to Volvo Cars

Do you want to work with consumer relations and communication opportunities in exciting and different ways? Do you want to change the world together with other employees at Volvo Cars?

We are currently looking for a Brand Product Manager to Volvo Cars in Torslanda. The Brand Product team is looking for a person who can dream, create and lead. The team collaborates with the entire Marketing & Communications team, as well as regions and markets, to lead the marketing work for Volvo Cars consumer product lines - both vehicles and digital.

The team consists of brand product experts who solve business challenges by co-creating effective marketing strategies to meet business objectives. As a Brand Product Manager, you are a team player with an inclusive, collaborative leadership style and will have product marketing, digital marketing and communications experience. Having a power of initiative as well as demonstrating a strong business acumen and commercial intuition.

As a Brand Product Manager, your task and responsibilities will include:

• Provide leadership and direction to cross-functional teams throughout the product lifecycle across Marketing & Communication including regions and markets as well as other key organizations.
• Role model a very strong culture of collaboration both within the team and with other key stakeholders. Partnering up with our regions and key markets to understand the market needs and product performance will be an integrated component of your work.
• Work closely with all Marketing & Communication functions – and also with a wide range of key functions such as Product Strategy, Retail, Business Operations, Design, Consumer Experience to define, develop and lead initiatives that move the needle for both our business and our brand.
• Collaborate with Brand Strategy and Creative Strategy on product positioning, messaging and key product content and own the consistency across all customer touch points.
• Leverage data-driven insights and track product performance to develop actionable recommendations for Brand Product strategies throughout the product lifecycle.
• Be the passionate champion of your product line who is always missed when not participating in a meeting.

This is a full-time consulting assignment, which means that you will be employed by StudentConsulting and work as a consultant at Volvo Cars. The assignment plans to start 2021-02-01 and last until 2021-12-31.

Din profil
The following qualifications are required:

• Previous experience working with Marketing.
• MSc in Finance, Economics, Industrial Engineering or similar, with top results and abroad exchange/ credits.
• 3+ years of demonstrated success from Business Development, Strategy, Brand Product Management or similar roles with a strong focus on commercial topics with a global impact.
• Experience from project management and strategy in a global set-up.
• Proven entrepreneurial mind and a sense for creating commercial opportunities.
• Experience of working with senior executives.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills; thrives in highly collaborative projects, effective in building consensus, can handle high stakes decisions with ease and having the ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Very strong storytelling and presentation skills.
• Ability to influence decision-making at all levels within an organization, and in a variety of contexts.
• Experience from global commercial areas such as pricing, sales and business development.
• International working experience from US, Asia or a large European markets.
• Fluent in English.

Preferred Skills:

• Must be curious, have a passion for excellence and the ability to ask the right questions
• Passion for customers and cars with deep product knowledge of both our products and relevant competitors.
• Can see the big picture as well as execute on operational level.
• Strong business judgment; with the strategic and analytical skills required to synthesize and articulate issues with clarity and the ability to debate and make clear recommendations.
• Service minded and an excellent team player who is, able to build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships in a high-paced environment.
• Experience in managing products within a large and diverse region spread geographically with different cultural outlooks.
• Comfortable navigating in a complex, matrixed organization.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Om företaget
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