Senior Product Strategy Lead – Global South

Daimler Truck AG; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

Daimler Truck AG in Dubai leads complex product strategy and requirement planning across the Global South region, translating market, customer, competitor, regulatory, and technology insights into robust product requirements and strategic recommendations that influence future portfolio decisions.

Working with the Head of Product Strategy & Requirement Planning, the role acts as a functional expert and trusted sparring partner across regional and global stakeholders, guiding strategic

Qualifications

• Proven ability to translate market and customer insights into actionable product requirements.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication.
• Fluent in English; German/Arabic language skills advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic market, customer, competitor, and application assessments across assigned product segments to identify growth opportunities, risks, and future requirements.
• Evaluate industry, technology, and regulatory developments and translate insights into recommendations for future product and portfolio direction.
• Lead the development of complex product requirement packages across markets, challenging assumptions and consolidating customer and market requirements.
• Drive prioritization of product requirements based on strategic relevance, customer needs, market attractiveness, and competitiveness.
• Lead portfolio gap assessments and competitiveness reviews, identifying opportunities to strengthen market coverage, customer fit, and product positioning.
• Develop recommendations for future product evolution and portfolio optimization and contribute structured insights to portfolio and roadmap discussions.
• Support product launches with relevant technical and commercial sales argumentation following Start of Production.
• Act as the lead interface for assigned strategic initiatives across Regional Centres, Product Marketing, Market Intelligence, Engineering, and Global Product Management.
• Represent assigned initiatives in global planning and product forums and influence decision-making through fact-based recommendations.
• Present strategic recommendations and planning outcomes to senior leadership and facilitate alignment across markets, functions, and regions.
• Mentor Associate Product Managers and Product Managers and contribute to methodologies, tools, best practices, and continuous improvement across Product Strategy & Requirement Planning.

Skills

Product strategy

Market assessment

Portfolio strategy

Requirements planning

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Situational analysis

Mentoring

AI tools usage

Education

Bachelor's degree in business administration, Economics, Engineering, or a related field

Job description

Daimler Truck AG in Dubai leads complex product strategy and requirement planning across the Global South region, translating market, customer, competitor, regulatory, and technology insights into robust product requirements and strategic recommendations that influence future portfolio decisions.

Working with the Head of Product Strategy & Requirement Planning, the role acts as a functional expert and trusted sparring partner across regional and global stakeholders, guiding strategic