Product Planning Manager

Scania is now undergoing a transformation from being a supplier of trucks, buses and engines to a supplier of complete and sustainable transport solutions.

Scania is undergoing a transformation from being a supplier of trucks, buses, and engines to a supplier of complete and sustainable transport solutions. This is the job for you who see yourself in a role between the development projects and the commercial side during this journey. If you want to work in a fast-growing and successful part of Scania this is doubtless the role for you. It is a role where things move at high phase, and it offers you great freedom.

 

The Parts and Service organisation is responsible for the aftermarket business within Scania. Our mission is to develop the parts and service business with a long-term global perspective to secure the objectives for sales, volumes, and profitability.

 

Your tasks

As a product planning manager within the parts and service area your main responsibility is to secure that all development projects are optimizing our potential and profitability of the parts and service business.

 

The product planning manager is responsible for the complete parts and service portfolio, spanning over all applications and all product areas. The core mission is to secure that the most important requirements are transferred to the projects, ensuring that all product introductions have considered the parts and service business.

 

The underlying key success factors are to work in close collaboration with the developing teams together the product managers at the parts and service organisation, but also close collaboration within our Sales and Marketing product management functions for alignment.

 

The product planning area is under constant development. An important part of the role is to co-lead this development to further improve Scania’s ability of develop products that secure our revenue targets, and in turn our EBIT target.

 

In this way, you support the medium term of our mission; to influence and effect the direction of R&D to ensure that customer satisfaction, Scania’s business model and long term product strategies are fulfilled.

 

You will be working in a talented cross-functional team together with other product planning managers and product managers. We appreciate teamwork and we support each other with our challenges. This will be achieved by focusing on:

 


• Initiate, analyse and develop market demands based product requests.
• Understand the technology developments, market trends, application strategies and use them to make balanced prioritization of what we develop.
• Represent the Parts and Service organisation in relevant R&D forums, push for our top priority demands, support with market input to improve demands and ensure a priority that is optimal for Scania.
• Represent the Parts and Service organisation in all development projects, make sure the projects are clear on what the detailed demand is, what our after sales strategy is, how this relates to the price strategy and expected volumes.
• Be an active and driving force in product planning topics, forums and projects.
• Be an active and driving force in the continuous improvement work within project development processes.
• Flag deviations and make sure corrective actions are initiated when the development projects are deviating from our parts and service strategy or missing our requirements.

 

The parts and service business has a significant impact on the total Scania profitability. This job suits you who wants a key role in our transformation in being a supplier of complete and sustainable transport solutions. Scania parts and service business has had a rapid growth in sales and here you really have the chance to continue pushing it to the next level!

 

Your profile


• a university degree in engineering, business and administration or equivalent.
• at least three years’ work experience as a product planning manager, development engineer, product manager or similar.
• an interest and knowledge in technology.
• customer first approach.
• team player.
• analytical with an out of the box mindset.
• fluent English in speaking and writing is a requirement. Swedish language is a merit.

 

 

Application

We are looking forward to reading your application, that contains a cover letter and a CV latest June 19th. A background check might be conducted for this position.

 

For more information

Gabriella von Matern, Head of Parts Product Management, gabriella.von.matern@scania.com

 

David K. Stråberg, Head of Price Management & Parts Assortment, david.k.straberg@scania.com

                         


Scania is a world-leading provider of transport solutions. Together with our partners and customers we are driving the shift towards a sustainable transport system. In 2020, we delivered 66,900 trucks, 5,200 buses as well as 11,000 industrial and marine power systems to our customers. Net sales totalled to over SEK 125 billion, of which over 20 percent were services-related. Founded in 1891, Scania now operates in more than 100 countries and employs some 50,000 people. Research and development are mainly concentrated in Sweden. Production takes place in Europe and Latin America with regional product centres in Africa, Asia and Eurasia. Scania is part of TRATON GROUP. For more information visit: www.scania.com.