Your team and your responsibilities
Team description
Concept planning represents the first phase in product planning where the new product idea is defined, agreed and approved. Concept planning team deeply investigate the future trends in the market, the competitors, and the target customer profile to propose a product concept which is then verified via the customer research. If the concept idea is successfully proved, it is handed over to the product planners for more detailed study resulting with the new product appearance on the market in several years.
Your responsibilities
1. Develop a new car concept (target customer, position in the market, body type, business case, USP, towards the official management approval and handover to the product planning team
2. Research current/future automotive market and competitors’ trends
3. Study and analyse automotive market data (sales figures, prices, product specifications, as well as customer behaviour
4. Organise customer research (. focus group)
5. Study future model volume potential, price positioning and profit assumptions (business case)
6. Interact with Toyota Motor Corporation in Japan and any relevant Research & Development members, to ensure a timely delivery of project milestones and results
7. Participate in the annual mid-term product planning process
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Your Profile
8. You are fluent in English (TME’s business language)
9. You have 5+ years of experience in product planning, marketing, customer research
10. You have an interest in automotive business (latest trends, companies, models,
11. You are experienced in data crunching, data interpretation and analysis
12. You are creative, a curious person with start-up mindset
13. You have good negotiation skills in a multi-cultural environment
14. You are result-driven and able to break-down complex tasks into manageable portions
15. You have excellent communication, visualisation and presentation skills
16. You are an expert in PowerPoint and Excel
Place of employment
17. Belgium - Brussels (Evere): Toyota Motor Europe, Head Office
We offer
Toyota offers a comprehensive remuneration package, including a bonus scheme and interesting extra-legal benefits. We provide flexibility to take care of both your career and your personal life by providing hybrid work environment with structural possibility to both work from home & collaborate in the office. You can also take your work abroad for up to 20 days/year.