**Job Description**:
This is a hybrid role: This position requires to work 3 days on site 2 days at home remote on a full-time basis
What you will do:
Core responsibilities of the **Assistant Product Planner **are:
- Developing segment strategies and business initiatives to increase profit and market share
- Coordinating program execution for multiple products, leading cross functional teams (RET).
Assignments are of a complex nature involving a significant degree of collaborative work and communication with other functional areas of the business.
Main activities are:
- Communicate with program teams globally to represent Mexico and GMCC market perspective
- Develop business and product strategies
- Define strategy for future products (Portfolio Role, Content & Positioning)
- Create and support AFS (Approval for Study), NoD (notice of Decision)
- Support in product-related execution issues for products already in the market
- Lead cross functional teams (Regional Executional Teams and Pilots vehicles) and administrate meetings (Agendas and minutes)
- Develop program gate reviews and report program status and risks to senior leadership
- Manage program content (Product Program Content)
- Coordinate & support planning volumes forecast
- Lead the development of content changes for Annual Programs, Midcycle and Major Programs
- Establishes accurate Program timings & track timing status through the Master DOT process
- Manage CR/DN's (Change Request / Decision Notice)
**Additional Job Description**:
Bachelor degree in Engineering, Business or similar
1-3 years of experience
Advanced English level
Ms Office
**Knowledge**:
- Automotive industry technical knowledge (Features, Content, Technology & Trends)
- GLOBAL Automotive Industry (Key Players, Segments, Forecasts)
- GMM Portfolio
- Manufacturing process - Desirable
- Product development (contentwise) - Desirable
**Skills**:
- **Language**:High-level English skills
- **Team coordination**:Proven ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure project goals are met on time, ensuring collaboration and accountability across departments
- **Communication**:Strong written and verbal communication skills, as well as effective presentations and storytelling
- **Analytical skills**:Proficiency in data analysis to track segment dynamics and competitors' offer vs. GM product
- **Project management**:Ability to manage timelines and resources to achieve desired results on time
- **Software proficiency**:Advanced Microsoft Excel (required) and Power BI (desirable)
**About GM**:
Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.
**Why Join Us**:
We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day - individually and collectively - to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.
**Diversity Information**:
General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities.