Full-Time Internship - Portfolio Planning & Dealer Development Intern

Purpose:

• Support GM Australia & New Zealand Portfolio Planning Director and Planning Manager to manage the Planning & Program Management activities required to grow the business

• Undertake special projects under the direction of the GM Australia & New Zealand Dealer Development Manager

Position Tasks and Responsibilities:

GM Australia & New Zealand Portfolio Planning

• Support Business Planning (BP) process with portfolio data as required, incl. competitive product plans & support GM BP review process

• Support development of future model volume estimate studie including generating reports from the FCAI volume reporting system (“Power BI)

• Develop & maintain vehicle content documents – S&O/PPC & Model line up summaries

• Develop & maintain pricing Feature Adjust/Comparably equipped summaries

• Research and maintain competitive (benchmark) product information.

• Support development of accessory portfolio, including maintaining part number and pricing for the Accessory Price Guide

• Complete detailed reviews of vehicle specification document, eg PDS, brochures, merchandising material, Corporate Affairs material, sales training material, Dealer Bulletins etc

• Manage & maintain key business records – meeting minute, presentations etc

• Order of pre-production vehicles & manage the vehicle ownership

• Support cost reduction & efficiency initiative for conversion business with Premoso

• Assist with the development of recovery action plans to address any threats to a particular program

• Assist in the preparation of program status reports (1 pagers) for issue to the GMSV SLT as required

• Support Product Planning team with confidential, “urgent” requests as required

GM Australia & New Zealand Dealer Development

• Support Dealer Development Manager with special assignments

• Update and Issue the GMSV Dealer Master List, HSO Dealer Master List and the ‘live’ GMSV and HSO contact lists, on a weekly basis

• Create and issue the GMSV and HSO dealer list to Results Directly on a monthly basis.

• Assist with Dealer Entity Changes as required, including but not limited to:  generating ASIC reports; updating Global Connect; filing (physical and electronically) of agreements

• Shared monitoring of the GMANZ.dealer network email inbox

• Support the Dealer Network Team with agreement renewals and utilising DocuSign for execution.

General

• Be prepared to take on a wide variety of analysis and tasks, often with short notice and deadlines.

• Promote efficient, effective team work for optimum performance

Knowledge: 

• Strong interest in cars and the motor industry

• Understanding of GMSV vehicle portfolio

• An interest in worldwide vehicle and social trends

• An interest in customer product needs and customers motivations and perceptions

Skills:

• Ability to logically analyze situations and trends and present recommendations, both orally and written.

• Self-motivated with strong action focus

• Ability to work with highly confidential information

• High level attention to detail and to deadlines

• Capable with the MS Office Suite of hardware.

• Capable of working well with other people, assertive when appropriate

• Empathy with the customer – capable of giving a balanced view on behalf of the customer

 Experience/Education:

• Currently completing a Marketing / Commerce / Engineering degree

• Some experience in business strategy, organizational change and process revisions

• Australian Drivers License

Competencies:

• Drive for Results

• Timely Decision Making

• Customer Focus

• Integrity & Trust

• Business Acumen

• Intellectual Horsepower