Description
We are looking for a Product Planning Specialist to join our team. As a Product Planning Specialist, you will be responsible for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting market trends and conditions within the Powersports & Products industry to identify factors that may impact future products. You will serve as the voice of the customer, conducting comprehensive market and product research, as well as in-depth market analysis, to generate actionable insights. These insights will support model strategy and lifecycle planning, sales planning, and model specific planning activities leading up to development.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing and maintaining a comprehensive understanding of the Powersports & Products industry, including product line-ups of Honda and its core competitors.
- Supporting complex research projects to gather insights that inform product planning and future strategic initiatives.
- Compiling and analyzing primary and secondary data utilizing various research methodologies and data sources.
- Generating and interpreting insights from data to uncover customer preferences, satisfaction, purchase behaviors, future vehicle needs, trade-offs, and more.
- Effectively presenting findings through clear and visually compelling charts, graphs, and reports to support data-driven decision-making.
The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience, with a minimum of 1-3 years of experience as a research analyst and/or product manager or passionate about Powersports & Products. They will also have high proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and proficiency in SPSS, Tableau, and PowerBI is a plus.
This role offers a competitive base salary, paid overtime, regional bonus, industry-leading benefit plans, paid time off, company-paid short-term and long-term disability, 401K plan with company match, and relocation assistance (if eligible).
Advancement opportunities, career mobility, education reimbursement for continued learning, training and development programs, tuition assistance & student loan repayment, lifestyle account, childcare reimbursement account, elder care support, wellbeing program, community service and engagement programs, and product programs are also available.