Jetzt als Senior Specialist Market Launch (f/m/d) bei smart Automobile in Leinfelden-Echterdingen durchstarten

We are the brand for forward-thinkers. We celebrate challenging conventions and shaping the future of electric mobility. We focus on the essentials to bring perfection to customers. We make urban life more enjoyable and entertain our customers with new impulses.

Ever since smart exists, we rewrite the automotive industry’s rulebook. In the 1990s, we undermined the predominant philosophy of ‘bigger is better’ and designed a revolutionary car. Since 2020 we are the first car enterprise that switched to 100% electric! We aim to transform into a leading player in urban premium, electric & connected mobility provider.

Are you a forward thinker too? Then join us now!

About the role:

The Market Launch Senior Specialist is responsible for overseeing all the needed activities for all clusters/projects within Aftersales, ensures the overall department vision to develop an end-to-end overview of the preparation needed for market launch on the different markets across EU, on wave basis, and steers/develops actions to solve critical project issues. This role will be in an all-time and close collaboration and coordination between all Aftersales clusters, IT experts, external partners as well as the overall company PMO organization.

Your responsibilities:

• Develop solutions in a very dynamic environment between different cultures and mindsets in the context of a Joint Venture
• Establish processes for Aftersales processes documentation and continuos update
• Develop and implement detailed processes for tracking of Aftersales market launch activities Providers according to the legal requirements (Block Exemption Regulation) in alignment with Counterparts in smart EU and Mercedes-Benz AG.
• To bring Aftersales market launch into a success story, coordinate and facilitate workshops to enable teams to contribute to the overall Aftersales project
• To ensure agile methodologies as well as roles and responsibilities are well implemented throughout the project and market launch
• To support the ability of the management to take decisions accordingly to the overall vision
• To support the organisation in always putting the end-to-end customer expierence and client’s interests first
• Establish the project bridging with smart HQ organization to align dependencies and risks on a regular basis
• To proactively look for improvements within projects and potential new ideas
• To define and consolidate target milestones from business perspective across different Aftersales clusters.
• To coordinate and stream leading interfaces between business and IT and 3rd parties in order to asses and solve questions from business and IT within project/program
• To create and manage short and long-term goals throughout project and market launch
• To be responsible for planning, governance and overseeing the successful achievement of project milestones
• To enable easy and efficient ways and methodologies to actively track and analyse project activities
• To assure transparency over the whole project and be able to give management status overviews always
• To assess if escalation steps are needed to be taken
• To analyse the potential factors of performance results and provide constructive proposal of improvement
• To plan and facilitate meeting structures to coordinate different stakeholders
• To develop templates and tools to assure project efficiency (with a get things done attitude) and an efficient way to track project status

We're building a workplace where amazing people like you can do their best work. Together with us, you enjoy the agile working atmosphere with cross-European responsibilities.

We're creating a culture where personal and professional growth are as important as business growth. Together with us, you'll build a diverse and inclusive environment where you feel you belong to.

We empower you to have ownership over work that directly impacts business. Together with us, you move fast and learn even faster; we emphasize on people and diversity. Due to our really diverse team, we expressly welcome applications from people with disabilities.