Product Manager – Passenger Vehicles Full Time NEW

Role Purpose

Own the Passenger Vehicle portfolio end-to-end and be accountable for its commercial performance, volume, mix, and margin. The Product Manager translates market and customer insight into product, pricing, and go-to-market decisions, leads new-model and model-year launches, and manages the OEM product relationship, operating within centrally governed pricing, planning, and aftersales frameworks.

Key Accountabilities

Outcome-oriented accountabilities, expressed as the end results the role is responsible for delivering.

Portfolio Strategy & Lifecycle

• Own the model line-up, variant/trim strategy, and spec/colour mix to maximise retail volume, mix, and profitability.
• Drive model-year planning and the product roadmap with the OEM and General Manager.
• Manage the full product lifecycle, introduction, ramp-up, in-life optimisation, run-out, and replacement, including ageing-stock and residual-value outcomes.

Market, Pricing & Commercial Performance

• Convert market, demand, and competitor analysis into product and pricing decisions that grow share and contribution.
• Recommend retail pricing and positioning by model and variant within central pricing frameworks.
• Hold accountability for portfolio commercial results and drive corrective action on volume, mix, and margin.

OEM, Launch & Sales Enablement

• Manage the OEM product interface allocation, specifications, model-year changes, incentives, and homologation inputs.
• Lead go-to-market for new-model and model-year launches across pricing, dealer/showroom readiness, and campaign execution.
• Equip the retail network with product knowledge, competitive tools, and accurate product information across sales and digital assets.

Governance & Cross-Functional Delivery

• Maintain dashboards and reporting on portfolio and launch performance for leadership reviews, ensuring data accuracy across systems.
• Align portfolio initiatives with Business Planning, Pricing, Marketing, and Aftersales, and lead strategic projects.

Profile

Competencies

• Business Insight: Applies market, customer, and competitor knowledge to advance the portfolio.
• Strategic Mindset: Sees ahead to future possibilities and translates them into product strategy.
• Customer Focus: Builds strong retail-customer relationships and demand insight into decisions.
• Drives Results: Consistently delivers volume, mix, and margin even under pressure.
• Plans and Aligns: Coordinates launch and lifecycle work across functions and timelines.
• Manages Complexity: Makes sense of multi-variable product, pricing, and stock data.
• Financial Acumen: Interprets and acts on the commercial and margin implications of decisions.
• Collaborates & Communicates Effectively, influences OEM, sales, marketing, and leadership stakeholders.
• Cultivates Innovation, brings fresh positioning and proposition ideas to the retail offer.

Experiences

• 6–10 years in automotive product/brand or category management, ideally passenger/retail automotive.
• Demonstrated ownership of a product or portfolio with accountability for volume, mix, and margin.
• Hands-on OEM/principal management and full product-lifecycle ownership.
• Led or co-led cross-functional product launches and go-to-market activity.
• Bachelor’s in Business, Marketing, or Engineering; Master’s/MBA an advantage.

Traits

• Drive and persistence; assertiveness in pushing decisions to conclusion.
• Influence and confidence with senior and external (OEM) stakeholders.
• Curiosity and adaptability in a fast-moving consumer market.
• Tolerance of ambiguity and composure under commercial pressure.

Drivers

• Achievement — motivated by measurable commercial outcomes.
• Challenge — energised by competitive, target-driven environments.
• Influence/Power — seeks ownership and visible impact on the business.
• Collaboration — values working across functions and with external partners.

Applicants are requested to share their most recent resume.

We thank all applicants for their interest.However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary; other duties may be assigned as necessary.