Director, Product Strategy

The Role

The Strategic Planning Director plays a critical role in identifying new opportunities and crafting long-term strategic plans for products and capabilities. By understanding clients' top needs, this leader will position Cox Automotive (CAI) to drive value in the marketplace.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with executive leaders, cross-functional partners, and business stakeholders to craft and refine product strategies that drive company and client growth.
• Engage with business leaders to analyze and uphold core revenue streams through alignment with foundational business strategies.
• Conduct market and opportunity analysis to identify new growth avenues and assess potential for new product offerings and lines of business.
• Perform the full range of analysis required to ensure proposed opportunities align with strategy and have the potential of enhancing long-term success from multiple perspectives, including technology, products, and services.
• Contribute to and advise management on the identification, evaluation, and execution of potential acquisitions, partnerships, alliances, joint ventures, and/or internal start-up opportunities.
• Direct the various workstreams to understand how initiatives may impact and benefit the business.
• Align strategies across Cox Auto and ensure they contribute to shared end-state and market-oriented outcomes.
• Coach product leaders (AVPs, Directors, and Sr Managers), helping them lift out of the tactical to ensure their product lines have/are aligned to a strategic north star that is durable.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate / coordinate capabilities that cross-solution sets/delivery streams and build consensus to shift how we deliver value as we advance.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 10 years' experience in a related field.
• Experience in automotive, strategy consulting, or technology consulting.
• Strong Strategic Formation background – Must have experience developing long-term strategies or initiatives.
• Experience in market analysis, data-driven decision-making, and performance metrics; proficiency in tools for data analysis and modeling.
• Able to adapt the strategy based on real-time feedback and changing conditions.
• Able to identify adequate resources-financial, human, and technological-that will support execution.
• Develop a comprehensive product strategy that outlines capability, target customers, and positioning.
• Facilitate workshops with cross-functional teams (R&D, marketing, and other business leaders) to co-create a product roadmap aligned with business objectives.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and methodologies to support strategic decision-making.
• Proven ability to lead using influence within highly complex, matrixed teams.
• Proven ability to deliver high-impact presentations to C-suite executives, clearly articulating the product vision, strategic alignment with corporate goals, and expected ROI, along with using data visualizations to convey complex information.
• Able to travel up to 25% of the time.

Qualifications

• Advanced degrees (e.g., MBA) or relevant certifications.
• Top Tier strategy consulting background.
• People leader experience preferred, as this candidate would be leading cross-functional teams.
• Corporate strategy experience.

Pay

USD 163,400.00 - 272,300.00 Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $163,400.00 - $272,300.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Benefits

• The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations;
• seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year;
• up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.