# Product Planning Specialist

**Company**: Honda
**Location**: Alpharetta
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $55,700.00 - $83,600.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Automotive
**Ticker**: HMC
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9584

**Apply**: https://careers.honda.com/us/en/job/10422/Product-Planning-Specialist
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_55af5061-7da

## 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- SPSS
- Tableau
- PowerBI
- data analysis
- market research
- product planning