Senior Group Manager, Global Analytics & Data Science

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Job Summary:

Hyundai Motor America is a company that focuses on performance, quality, design, and innovation in the automotive industry. They are seeking a Senior Group Manager, Global Analytics & Data Science, who will provide strategic and tactical leadership to enhance the PLM process globally and support the CEO's directives for optimizing sales and performance across regions.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor Regional PLM process to ensure CEO requests for analysis and deliverables are comprehended and executed properly.

• Support creation of reporting process to provide CEO full visibility to model line performance detail by Region/Country and Key Markets with supporting analytical rationale.

• Collaborate with Regions to develop and manage team to lead LCM (Launch Committee Meetings) to ensure cross-functional alignment and organizational readiness for new product launches. Focus on identification of gaps and work collaboratively to address them.

• Collaborate with HMC PLM teams to gather the data, analysis, and insights necessary to create a global PLM reporting structure to support the monthly CEO governance process.

• Lead development of Regional Carflows including volume and share forecasts by model line.

• Partner closely with regional peers in Pricing, Product Planning, Distribution, and Marketing to encourage cross-departmental collaboration on upstream planning and downstream problem solving.

• Proactively lead team to analyze performance of assigned Regions relative to objectives, develop actionable recommendations to optimize performance across the levers listed below, and present to executive management at regular governance meetings.

• Collaborate with Regional teams to create Regional monthly performance review metrics including comprehensive analysis of model performance with a focus on optimizing sales/share/profitability and future go-to-market strategies:

• Product Planning: Upstream strategic direction on product specifications and trim/powertrain/drivetrain mix every MY to ensure assigned vehicle(s) meets Sales and Marketing channel marketplace needs.

• Strategy: Development of vehicle positioning strategies and Key Selling Points (KSPs) for all-new, major change, and face-lift vehicles.

• Marketing: Collaborate to ensure product concept, positioning, KSPs are clearly communicated and with consistency across all company-owned and 3rd party websites/channels.

• PR: Partner to ensure vehicle positioning strategy and market performance are effectively incorporated into media events.

• Incentives: Collaborate to optimize competitiveness and support incentives planning meetings.

• Pricing: Partner to identify opportunities to increase revenue.

• Finance: Analyze and validate financial impact of recommendations.

• Production: Trim mix direction monthly to ensure optimized PO and balanced pipeline.

• Sales Training: Collaborate to ensure KSPs are clearly communicated (ensure consistency with key marketing messages, positioning, and proper competitor comparisons).

• Sales Operations: Downstream alignment with Subsidiaries to collaborate, manage and optimize media messaging, incentives and provide strategic/tactical inputs to drive the monthly go-to-market plan.

• Business Unit Management: Partner with Regions in setting annual business objectives (BP/OP) for each vehicle and provide strategic direction to Market Analytics for development of the Mid-term Plan. Identify key product, marketing and sales programs required to achieve objectives.

• Lead Global PLM teams to achieve performance improvement and BP/OP targets.

• Collaborate with HMC business management teams and other cross-functional teams and projects.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Must be a high school graduate.

• Bachelor’s degree required.

• Master’s degree is a plus.

• At least 10 years of professional experience at a manufacturer / distributor of consumer products with direct product responsibilities (planning, pricing, marketing, incentives, distribution, and/or sales).

• Cross-functional project management experience required.

• Extensive experience in aggregating data from multiple sources, developing advanced forecasting models, and designing strategic sales plans to align product strategies effectively with customer needs.

• Self-starter with curiosity and initiative.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills with experience presenting to senior executives.

• Ability to simplify complex issues, develop a compelling point of view, and persuasively make case for change leading to action.

• Good organizational and teamwork skills.

• Ability to multi-task.

• Strong experience with BI tools like Tableau or Power BI is required.

• Solid foundation in data analysis, statistics, and forecasting modeling.

• Proficiency in building automation processes and analytics tools, including advanced forecasting methodologies.

• Strong technical skills in modeling and coding with SQL, Python or R are required.

• Advanced proficiency in MS Office, specializing in Excel, PowerPoint, and Word, for crafting high-quality reports and presentations.

Preferred:

• At least 5 years of supervisory experience teams preferred.

• Automotive industry experience preferred.

• Strong automotive industry and technology knowledge preferred.

• Experience with industry tools and studies such as PIN, Maritz, GfK, IHS/Polk, Strategic Vision, Ace Metrix is highly preferred.

Company:

Hyundai Motor America is a subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Corporation that distributes Hyundai vehicles throughout the United States. It is a sub-organization of Hyundai Motor Company. Founded in 1986, the company is headquartered in Fountain Valley, California, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Hyundai Motor America has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.