Assistant Manager Market Intelligence (M/F/D)

Join the movement and find new inspiration.

We have an exciting opportunity as:

Assistant Manager Market Intelligence (M/F/D)

at the Kia Europe Headquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Kia is a global mobility brand with a vision to create sustainable mobility solutions for consumers, communities, and societies around the world. Founded in 1944, Kia has been building motorcycles, cars and trucks for more than 75 years. Kia is now spearheading the popularization of electrified and battery electric vehicles, developing a growing range of mobility services while encouraging millions of people to explore the best ways of getting around. Our brand slogan – ‘Movement that inspires’ – reflects our commitment to inspire consumers through our products and services.

Kia Europe is the European sales and manufacturing arm of Kia Corporation. From our headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, we lead 39 markets across Europe and the Caucasus, employing more than 5,500 people.

Our headquarter is home to 37 different nationalities and this diversity is truly inspiring! This means that every day at Kia is an opportunity to learn something new and to grow personally and professionally. The mix of ambitious and dynamic employees from all over the world is the fuel to our success. Do you have what it takes to join our team? We are looking forward to getting to know you!

You will enjoy working with us if you like these things:

• A pulsating international environment. Our workforce is composed of people from 37 nations.

• Playing an active and important part in the development of Kia Europe.

• Developing new frameworks and solutions.

• Demanding challenges to which you can creatively contribute.

• A competitive compensation package; private leasing offer; systematic off and on-the-job training, free staff restaurant, support as concerns Health Management and more.

The Challenges: High - The Job: Great.

1. Your initiative, energy and persistence will ultimately determine your success.

2. You will work in a network of experts in Business Strategy and other business professionals.

3. You have the spirit that makes us successful.

You are +++ ambitious +++ dynamic +++ flexible +++ optimistic +++ patient +++

Job Mission

Provide Market Intelligence by analyzing past sales and production market of all European RHQ countries as well as analyzing forecast for European RHQ markets. Provide analyses of the performance & forecasts per country in combination with industry data to Kia EU top management and the markets focusing on the industry, individual segments, nameplates and competitive activities.

Your Responsibilities

Analyze

• Analyze past industry data per country for sales and production

• Analyze future industry forecasts per country for sales and production

• Analyze key indicators for Kia EU strategy of all departments to recommend future strategic progress

• Manage a central repository of competitive intelligence data sets, fully automated and updated on a regular basis (Tableau)

• Set-up and capture cross-functional strategic KPIs in a comprehensive and automated format

Synthesis

• Maintain an up-to-date understanding of key industry, segment and competitors’ strategies and strategic actions, discern trends as well as near- and long-term implications for Kia Europe, and develop a point of view on potential courses of action

• Collaborate with different teams across Product Management, Sales, Business Planning, to bring together a cross-functional perspective on competitive actions and dynamics and range of competitive response options

• Synthesize competitive insights and implications for executive consumption in a way that facilitates decision making by using an array of presentation and data manipulation tools

• Ensure an effective dissemination of competitive intelligence insights to all relevant stakeholders across the organization

• Develop tool and analysis structure of internal strategic KPIs, allowing the Business Strategy Group to evaluate progress towards long-term strategy

Forecasts 

• Analyze key European trends for sales and production from the combined data on adequate level to understand the Kia EU Region development

• Develop a process to survey and understand the customer demand (Kia EU Top management + Sub´s) regarding market trends and secure to cover this demand in the market intelligence reports

Report

• Provide Market Intelligence Report covering Sales, Production and Strategic KPI´s to Kia EU top management

• Provide Market Intelligence Report covering Sales and Strategic KPI´s to Kia EU Markets (Subs)

• Support Kia HQ reports by providing Key Trends and developments of Kia EU Region.

  
  

Your Profile

• Master degree or equivalent in quant-driven major (e.g. math, physics, engineering, economics) 

• Min. 3 years of professional experience in automotive industry 

• Experience in working with and analyzing big data

• Experience in providing top management reports

• Working experience in quant-/ analytics driven subjects, preferably in automotive industry

• Highly passionate about understanding trends

• Advanced IT skills (complex spreadsheets in Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, databases / SQL as a plus)

• Enjoying communication and creating alignment between various levels and across different functions in the organization

• Strong collaboration skills

• Driven team player, result-oriented and supportive

• Fluent in English

If you’re interested to become part of our Kia team, please apply via our online portal with your earliest possible starting date.