Senior Group Manager, Global Product Line Management

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Location

NHQ

Purpose

• The Senior Group Manager, Global Product Line Management (GPLM), plays a critical role in providing both strategic and tactical leadership to a team responsible for developing and enhancing the PLM process globally. This role involves executing directives from the director to strengthen model line governance within each region and monitoring performance closely.
• Key responsibilities include supporting all CEO mandates, ensuring assignments are effectively communicated and delivered by the regions, and assisting regional teams in developing actionable plans to optimize sales, share, and profit targets. This includes achieving Business Plan (BP) objectives for all Hyundai vehicles by collaborating with regional teams and building teams of Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). These SMEs maintain real-time knowledge of critical business factors such as sales performance at the national, regional, and market levels; inventory levels and mix; product/pricing/incentive competitiveness; marketing effectiveness; region and dealer engagement; competitor activity; and segment dynamics (e.g., purchase/rejection reasons, loyalty, conquest, demographics, acquisition funnel, etc.).
• The Senior Group Manager is responsible for delivering performance updates and analyses to provide the CEO with clear visibility into global opportunities and risks. The role utilizes advanced analytical tools and methodologies to assess market performance, reveal competitive actions, and generate forward-looking insights to drive business decisions. Significant application of Python, advanced Excel, and visualization solutions are utilized.
• The department’s mission is to achieve global revenue and market share objectives by collaborating with Regional PLM teams and providing strategic guidance on go-to-market strategies that optimize sales and profitability. This includes establishing and sustaining effective regional processes in partnership with sales and marketing stakeholders for product portfolio management and new product launch effectiveness.
• The Senior Group Manager must have a comprehensive understanding of regional and market-specific intelligence, including industry trends, segments, competitive models, powertrains, pricing, incentives, and consumer behavior. Time sensitivity, prioritization, and effective communication are essential to meet leadership requests and ensure alignment with organizational goals.

Major Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Regional teams to create Regional monthly model line performance evaluations including comprehensive analysis of competitiveness with a focus on optimizing sales/share/profitability and future go-to-market strategies.
• Monitor Regional PLM processes to ensure CEO requests for analysis and deliverables are comprehended and executed properly.
• Support creation of reporting process to provide CEO full visibility to model line performance detail by Region/Country and Key Markets with supporting analytical rationale.
• Collaborate with Regions to develop and manage team to lead LCM (Launch Committee Meetings) to ensure cross-functional alignment and organizational readiness for new product launches.  Focus on identification of gaps and work collaboratively to address them.
• Aggregate market level data, analysis, and insights necessary to create a global PLM reporting structure to support the monthly CEO governance process.
• Lead development of Regional Carflows including volume and share forecasts by model line.
• Partner closely with regional peers in Pricing, Product Planning, Distribution, and Marketing to encourage cross-departmental collaboration on upstream planning and downstream problem solving.
• Proactively lead team to analyze performance of assigned Regions relative to objectives, develop actionable recommendations to optimize performance across the levers listed below, and present to executive management at regular governance meetings.

Major Responsibilities (continued)

• Lead the development of processes and dashboards that integrate data from diverse sources and leverage analytical tools, including machine learning, to evaluate market performance, identify growth opportunities, and provide forward-looking insights.
• Senior Group Manager will collaborate with regions to ensure the following areas are aligned to optimize performance per CEO direction.
• Product Planning:  Upstream strategic direction on product specifications and trim/powertrain/drivetrain mix every MY to ensure assigned vehicle(s) meets Sales and Marketing channel marketplace needs.
• Strategy: Development of vehicle positioning strategies and Key Selling Points (KSPs) for all-new, major change, and face-lift vehicles.
• Marketing: Collaborate to ensure product concept, positioning, KSPs are clearly communicated and with consistency across all company-owned and 3rd party websites/channels.
• PR: Partner to ensure vehicle positioning strategy and market performance are effectively incorporated into media events.
• Incentives: Collaborate to optimize competitiveness and support incentives planning meetings.
• Pricing: Partner to identify opportunities to increase revenue.
• Finance: Analyze and validate financial impact of recommendations.
• Production: Trim mix direction monthly to ensure optimized PO and balanced pipeline.
• Sales Training: Collaborate to ensure KSPs are clearly communicated (ensure consistency with key marketing messages, positioning, and proper competitor comparisons).
• Sales Operations: Downstream alignment with Subsidiaries to collaborate, manage and optimize media messaging, incentives and provide strategic/tactical inputs to drive the monthly go-to-market plan. 
• Business Unit Management: Partner with Regions in setting annual business objectives (BP/OP) for each vehicle and provide strategic direction to Market Analytics for development of the Mid-term Plan.  Identify key product, marketing and sales programs required to achieve objectives.

Authority

• Collaboration with Regions/Subsidiaries to develop financially vetted business cases for product performance improvement recommendations.
• Lead Global PLM team to achieve business performance improvement and BP/OP targets.
• Collaborate with other cross-functional teams to support project deliveries.

Education

~ Must be a high school graduate~ Bachelor’s degree required.~ Master’s degree a plus

Related Experience

• Ten or more years of professional experience at a manufacturer/distributor of consumer products with direct product responsibilities (planning, pricing, marketing, incentives, distribution, and/or sales) is required.
• Five or more years of supervisory experience is preferred.
• Global automotive industry experience preferred.
• Cross-functional project management experience required.
• Extensive experience in aggregating data from multiple sources, developing advanced forecasting models, and designing strategic sales plans to align product strategies effectively with customer needs.
• Proficient in data analysis and visualization, with expertise in leveraging tools like Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms to deliver actionable insights.
• Skilled in analytical forensics and coding visualization tools, adapting to shifting econometric drivers to ensure accurate market analysis and reporting.

Skills/Knowledge

• Self-starter with curiosity and initiative.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with experience presenting to senior executives.
• Solid foundation in data analysis, statistics, and forecasting modeling
• Proficiency in building automation processes and analytics tools, including advanced forecasting methodologies.
• Ability to simplify complex issues, develop a compelling point of view, and persuasively make case for change leading to action.
• High organizational and teamwork skills.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Strong automotive industry and technology knowledge preferred.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office, specializing in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, for crafting high-quality reports and presentations. Strong experience with BI tools like Tableau or Power BI.
• Experience with industry tools and studies such as S&P Global, Maritz, GfK, IHS/Catalyst.
• Strong technical skills in modeling and coding with SQL, Python and R are highly desirable.

Certification

• N/A.

Physical Requirements

Normal office dutiesBusiness travel as neededTravel: 0% - 25%

Work Model

#LI-OnSite

Affiliate

#Hyundai

Compensation

$137,025.00 - $203,000.00 Annual

Benefits

• Monthly Hyundai/Genesis vehicle lease allowance (including insurance and maintenance)
• Holiday Pay - the company shuts down with pay between Christmas and New Years.
• Vacation and sick time off
• Healthcare insurance (medical, dental, and vision)
• 401(K) company match
• Additional 401(K) Employer Enhanced Contribution program – eligible after 1 year of employment, in addition to the regular employer matching contribution
• Basic life insurance, short- and long-term disability
• Mental health, wellbeing, and employee assistance program
• Health advocate (coordinate care and services, assistance with claim and billing issues, understanding Hyundai benefits)

 

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