What you will do:
In Strategic Product Planning within Technology, you will define and drive the long-term safety direction for our product portfolio. You will translate customer needs, accident insight, and market and regulatory developments into clear strategic priorities and initiatives. You will guide decision-making and alignment across brands and functions so that safety solutions are integrated into the product plan and delivered in line with our safety ambition. You will collaborate closely with Product Owners, feature engineering, brands, product planning, and other product feature strategists, acting as a global safety ambassador within Client.

You will work at Strategic Product Planning, a highly strategic function within Technology that supports the client in navigating transformation and setting the direction of a long-term product plan. The team works cross-functionally and globally, translating business requirements and user needs into meaningful commercial solutions, with a strong focus on collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Who are you?
As the automotive industry is undergoing one of the biggest transformations in its history, you bring a holistic, future-oriented and strategic mindset. You combine strategic thinking with business acumen and can translate insights into a clear direction, focus areas, and goals that guide decision-making over time.

You have solid experience within vehicle safety and an in-depth understanding of active safety, collision safety and collision compatibility. You stay up to date on the regulatory landscape and on how safety performance is evaluated by consumer test organizations, for example Euro NCAP, IIHS, etc. You also understand accident statistics and accident research well enough to connect real-world safety scenarios to customer operations and to the safety challenges we need to solve.

You build trust through collaboration and are recognized for bringing stakeholders together to move strategic initiatives forward. You are comfortable influencing at different levels, you dare to highlight difficult truths, and you can cut through ambiguity to help teams choose a direction that leads to results. You take a data-driven approach to complex questions and can reshape complexity into something manageable and actionable. Finally, you communicate with impact and are skilled at storytelling, presenting, and visualizing information in a clear and engaging way.

Other requirements/expectations:

- Minimum 10yrs of relevant experience, most likely more
- Recognized in the field of vehicle Safety (cars or commercial vehicles) obtained through advanced education and work experience
- Known subject matter expert and natural go to person
- Strong T-shaped profile
- Very strong commercial knowledge, able to combine customer needs with new technologies and to identify and drive business opportunities
- Experienced in leading roadmaps/strategies