Product Planning
Greaves Cotton
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Job summary
Greaves Cotton in Pune seeks an AM- Product Planning Professional to shape product roadmaps, prioritize portfolios, and drive lifecycle planning in line with business goals. You will map customer needs, translate inputs into strategic plans, and develop leadership-ready decks for decision-making.
The role emphasizes planning and strategy with limited market research input, collaborating across product, engineering, sales and finance to deliver clear recommendations and actionable plans.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering required; MBA preferred for marketing/strategy roles.
- Role demands building product roadmaps, portfolio planning, lifecycle planning and customer need mapping.
- Ability to translate inputs into structured plans and leadership-ready presentations.
Responsibilities
- Support preparation of short, medium, and long-term product plans aligned with business strategy and technology direction.
- Assist in product roadmap development for new products, upgrades, variants, applications and platform extensions.
- Define product planning inputs such as target applications, customer segments, value proposition, feature priorities, launch phasing and portfolio fit.
- Track roadmap progress, milestones, assumptions, risks, dependencies and decision points for management review.
- Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align product strategy with engineering feasibility, sales priorities, service feedback, and manufacturing readiness.
- Prepare inputs for business cases including opportunity definition, target segments, value proposition, and GTM actions.
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Job description
3-5 Years
60% Product Planning, Product Strategy, Portfolio Roadmap & GTM Support | 40% Market Research & Analysis
Engine, Automotive, Powertrain, Industrial Equipment, Off-Highway, Marine Engines or related manufacturing firms
Product Strategy / Product Planning / Reporting to Senior Manager - Product Strategy
We are looking for a Product Planning & Product Strategy Professional who can support product roadmap creation, portfolio prioritization, lifecycle planning, customer need mapping, business case preparation and cross-functional product strategy execution for current and future product portfolios.
The role is primarily designed for product planning and product strategy activities. Market research and analysis will be used only as an input to support product decisions, not as the core responsibility. The candidate should be able to convert business priorities, customer inputs, competitor references, and internal technical inputs into clear product plans, strategic recommendations, and leadership-ready presentation decks.
- Support preparation of short, medium, and long-term product plans aligned with business strategy, customer requirements, and technology direction.
- Assist in product roadmap development for new products, upgrades, variants, applications and platform extensions.
- Define product planning inputs such as target applications, customer segments, value proposition, feature priorities, launch phasing and portfolio fit.
- Track product roadmap progress, key milestones, assumptions, risks, dependencies and decision points for management review.
- Support portfolio prioritization based on strategic relevance, business potential, profitability, lifecycle stage, customer need, and competitive positioning.
- Identify portfolio gaps, white-space opportunities, product rationalization areas, and adjacent application opportunities.
- Prepare structured recommendations for product upgrades, new product introductions, localization, portfolio expansion, and phase-out decisions.
- Work with cross-functional teams to align product strategy with engineering feasibility, sales priorities, service feedback, and manufacturing readiness.
- Prepare inputs for product business cases including opportunity definition, target segment, product concept, value proposition, volume assumptions, pricing inputs and investment considerations.
- Support commercialization planning by defining launch readiness inputs, product positioning, customer benefits, sales enablement requirements and GTM action points.
- Create decision documents and management review notes for product approval, prioritization, and investment discussions.
- Coordinate with product, sales, marketing, finance and engineering teams to consolidate assumptions and ensure product decisions are data-backed and execution-oriented.
- Capture customer requirements, application needs, usage patterns, pain points, and product improvement inputs from internal stakeholders and customer-facing teams.
- Translate customer and application inputs into product requirements, concept briefs, feature priorities, and product planning notes.
- Support field feedback reviews and convert recurring business or customer themes into product strategy actions.
- Use competitor references to support product positioning, specification comparison, pricing inputs, and differentiation strategy.
- Prepare product benchmarking summaries covering technical features, commercial positioning, application fit and customer value.
- Identify product strengths, gaps and improvement opportunities to support roadmap and portfolio decisions.
- Conduct focused market research only where required to validate product planning assumptions, opportunity size, customer applications, competitor activity or segment attractiveness.
- Prepare concise market inputs, trend summaries and analysis notes as supporting material for product strategy and business case discussions.
- Maintain relevant market and competitor data points required for product planning, without making market research the primary role focus.
- Create clear, structured and insight-led PowerPoint presentations for product roadmap reviews, portfolio strategy discussions, product approval meetings, and leadership updates.
- Convert product planning inputs, business case assumptions, benchmarking and limited market analysis into decision-ready executive storytelling.
- Develop strong slide flow, charts, frameworks and summary pages to communicate complex product strategy topics in a concise and professional manner.
Product roadmaps; product planning notes; application / segment-wise product plans; launch phasing inputs
Portfolio prioritization recommendations; product upgrade proposals; new product opportunity notes; lifecycle strategy inputs
Business case inputs; opportunity assessment; value proposition notes; commercialization and GTM action points
Product benchmarking summaries; competitor positioning notes; differentiation and gap analysis inputs
Executive presentation decks; roadmap review presentations; product strategy discussion packs; approval meeting documents
Focused market inputs; concise trend summaries; competitor data points used to support product strategy decisions
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering - Mechanical, Automobile, Electrical or related discipline.
- MBA in Marketing, Strategy, Operations, Product Management or Business Analytics preferred.
Product roadmap planning; portfolio prioritization; lifecycle planning; product requirement definition; application and customer need mapping
Business case preparation; GTM planning; value proposition development; product positioning; product upgrade and new product opportunity assessment
Cross-functional coordination with Product / Program Management, Engineering, Sales, Service, Marketing, Finance and Manufacturing teams
Basic market sizing, competitor analysis, product benchmarking, data interpretation and structured problem-solving to support product decisions
PowerPoint presentation making; executive storytelling; charting and visualization; slide flow creation; concise leadership communication
Advanced Microsoft Excel; Microsoft PowerPoint; Power BI preferred; SQL or data analytics tools good to have
Structured thinking; attention to detail; stakeholder management; business orientation; ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Experience working with product planning, product management, strategy, business planning, or application engineering teams.
- Ability to understand technical product inputs and translate them into business, customer and portfolio-level recommendations.
- Strong comfort with creating leadership-ready presentations and structured decision documents.
- Exposure to engines, powertrain, automotive, industrial equipment, off-highway or marine engine applications will be an advantage.
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