Associate Lead - Global Product Planning

TVS Motor; Krishnagiri District; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Job summary

TVS Motor in Hosur, Tamil Nadu, seeks an Associate Lead - Global Product Planning to drive a profitable, globally integrated product portfolio.

You will translate regional market opportunities into long-range plans, build TAM and MS forecasts, and prepare business cases with cross-functional teams including Finance, Engineering, and Sales. The role emphasizes modularity, architecture, and strategic roadmap development.

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of relevant experience in product planning or strategy.
• Strong skills in market sizing, portfolio planning, and business-case evaluation.

Responsibilities

• To shape a competitive and profitable global product portfolio by translating regional market opportunities, customer and technology requirements, vehicle-architecture possibilities, and financial attractiveness into an integrated long-range product plan, while improving modularity and commonality across products.
• Define model-class fit for each vehicle segment across global regions by assessing customer needs, regulations, competitive offerings, price positioning, and strategic portfolio gaps.
• Calculate Total Addressable Market (TAM) and market share (MS%) by region, segment, and class; develop auditable N+5-year forecasts using historical trends, assumptions, and scenario analysis.
• Analyze region-wise five-year CAGR by segment and class, identify growth pools and risks, and convert market intelligence into portfolio recommendations.
• Build investment, volume, revenue, and NPV assessments for proposed products and major portfolio actions in collaboration with Finance, Engineering, Sales, and Program teams.
• Prioritize product projects using market share potential, revenue, volume, NPV, strategic fit, technology readiness, resource demand, and risk; prepare clear recommendations for management reviews.
• Create and maintain the global product plan, including model cadence, regional derivatives, lifecycle actions, launch windows, dependencies, and key decision gates.
• Develop and support fact-based business cases and executive pitches for new products, derivatives, technologies, and lifecycle interventions; address assumptions, sensitivities, and trade-offs.
• Drive complexity reduction through modularity and identify commonality opportunities among products within each Vehicle Architecture VA, balancing customer differentiation with scale and cost benefits.
• Facilitate discussions on Vehicle Architectures and VA-derived products; collect, structure, prioritize, and trace Vehicle-Level Definition (VLD) requirements for technologies and features.
• Develop subsystem technology roadmaps with R&D and functional owners, assess maturity and timing, and integrate selected technologies and features into the product plan.
• Lead market-sizing, forecasting, portfolio analysis, and product-plan preparation; obtain required inputs from regional and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Recommend portfolio priorities, model / class positioning, lifecycle actions, and technology integration based on documented market, financial, architecture, and risk analysis.
• Convene cross-functional planning reviews, challenge planning assumptions, and challenge planning?

Skills

Market forecasting

Financial modelling

NPV analysis

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical / Automobile / Production / Industrial Engineering or related discipline

Master's degree / MBA in Strategy, Marketing, Finance or Operations is preferred

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

PLM

Job description

Job Summary

Job Title / Role: Associate Lead - Global Product Planning

Department: Global Product Planning

Location: Hosur

Education Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical / Automobile / Production / Industrial Engineering or a related discipline
• Master's degree / MBA in Strategy, Marketing, Finance or Operations is preferred

Required Experience

• 8-12 Years

Capabilities

• Advanced capability in market forecasting, financial modelling, NPV / business-case evaluation and data visualization
• Certification or working knowledge in product management, PLM, Power BI / Tableau or strategic road mapping is preferred

Responsibilities

• To shape a competitive and profitable global product portfolio by translating regional market opportunities, customer and technology requirements, vehicle-architecture possibilities, and financial attractiveness into an integrated long-range product plan, while improving modularity and commonality across products.
• Define model-class fit for each vehicle segment across global regions by assessing customer needs, regulations, competitive offerings, price positioning, and strategic portfolio gaps.
• Calculate Total Addressable Market (TAM) and market share (MS%) by region, segment, and class; develop auditable N+5-year forecasts using historical trends, assumptions, and scenario analysis.
• Analyze region-wise five-year CAGR by segment and class, identify growth pools and risks, and convert market intelligence into portfolio recommendations.
• Build investment, volume, revenue, and NPV assessments for proposed products and major portfolio actions in collaboration with Finance, Engineering, Sales, and Program teams.
• Prioritize product projects using market share potential, revenue, volume, NPV, strategic fit, technology readiness, resource demand, and risk; prepare clear recommendations for management reviews.
• Create and maintain the global product plan, including model cadence, regional derivatives, lifecycle actions, launch windows, dependencies, and key decision gates.
• Develop and support fact-based business cases and executive pitches for new products, derivatives, technologies, and lifecycle interventions; address assumptions, sensitivities, and trade-offs.
• Drive complexity reduction through modularity and identify commonality opportunities among products within each Vehicle Architecture VA, balancing customer differentiation with scale and cost benefits.
• Facilitate discussions on Vehicle Architectures and VA-derived products; collect, structure, prioritize, and trace Vehicle-Level Definition (VLD) requirements for technologies and features.
• Develop subsystem technology roadmaps with R&D and functional owners, assess maturity and timing, and integrate selected technologies and features into the product plan.
• Lead market-sizing, forecasting, portfolio analysis, and product-plan preparation; obtain required inputs from regional and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Recommend portfolio priorities, model / class positioning, lifecycle actions, and technology integration based on documented market, financial, architecture, and risk analysis.
• Convene cross-functional planning reviews, challenge planning assumptions, and challenge planning?
• Competencies and certification courses/trainings considered necessary to perform this job.

Competencies

• Competencies and certification courses/trainings considered necessary to perform this job

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