Product Analyst

Job description

POSTING END DATE: 13/10/2017
ADVERTISED SALARY: £35,000 - £45,000
An ever-evolving heritage. A truly exciting future. Two of the world’s most iconic brands. Jaguar Land Rover is revered across the globe. Continually pushing the boundaries of innovation and redefining the benchmark for excellence, we set the standards others want to follow. We want to keep it that way too. Which is where you join the journey.

LOCATION: Coventry, West Midlands

Jaguar and Land Rover are two of the world’s most iconic luxury brands. Every day we are reaching more customers, and our network of well over 2,000 dealerships continues to expand around the world. As our global marketplace extends further, we need to provide more customers than ever before with an unrivalled experience. you'll see that we do.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Our Marketing, Sales and Service (MS&S) teams are responsible for all customer-facing activities, from developing and maintaining the dealer network to managing importers and export partners. Their responsibilities continue through to global sales planning and supply of vehicles to markets, the sales process to customers, and all global customer service and aftersales activities. 

The Product Marketing organisation is responsible for ensuring that the products Jaguar Land Rover brings to market are fully optimised for the customers, markets and competitive environments at which they are targeted, in addition to ensuring that they align fully with the long-term brand and business strategy and that they maximise business returns within these parameters. The team agrees individual derivative specifications, prices, volumes and feature take rates with markets and it also maintains definitive, detailed master specification documents.

Reporting into the Product Marketing Manager, the Product Marketing Analyst is an integral part of the Product Marketing team responsible for the day-to-day running of the current product and the planning of the coming models. The role interacts continuously with Market representatives as well as Pricing, Product Information coding analysts, Programme teams, Purchasing and others. In this role, you’ll be the ongoing product specialist with a remit including the development of product briefs and analysis of competitor data and actions, market research surveys and product quality and financial data. You’ll provide a consultation service to internal customers on product and pricing information and support the Pricing function with pricing tasks and actions.

In addition, you’ll interface with other departments to provide support in the preparation of sales literature along with checking proofs for product detail and accuracy (including the sign-off of customer-facing content). You’ll be tasked with aiding with the creation of communications material such as brochures and representing the Product team at Capacity Planning reviews as well as providing effective support to the Product Marketing Manager in preparation of input into Programme Gateways, Programme Steering Teams and other cross-functional meetings.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

To be successful in this role, you'll have experience working in Marketing, Product Development or Finance as well as being highly numerate with a good grasp of Microsoft applications and a high degree of competitor and market awareness. You’ll need excellent oral and written communications skills, strong analytical skills and to be self-motivated and determined to get complete tasks expediently and accurately. You’ll be thorough and capable of sustaining attention to detail for long periods and be flexible with regard to work locations when required (primarily Whitley but occasionally required to attend Gaydon).

BENEFITS

Bring all this to the home of premium innovation, and you’ll find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, a discounted car purchase and lease scheme for you and your family, membership of a competitive pension plan and a performance-related bonus scheme. All this and more makes Jaguar Land Rover the perfect place to continue your journey.

Jaguar Land Rover is committed to equal opportunity for all.

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