Product Manager Decision Engine
Product Manager Decision Engine
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Job Description
Location:Leeds/Manchester Hybrid
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Cox Automotive Europe is leading the digital transformation of the automotive industry empowering dealers OEMs and buyers with cuttingedge tools that redefine how vehicles are managed traded and optimized.
Our panEuropean programme includes a groundbreaking Decision Engine an AIdriven platform that turns complex data into actionable insights enabling smarter decisions across inventory pricing and supply chains. Join us to shape the future of automotive intelligence.
Scope of Role:
As Product Manager for our data products youll own the vision strategy and of our AIpowered decisioning platform and how our customers consume the data via other channels as well. Youll bridge technical innovation (ML models realtime analytics) with business impact ensuring dealers OEMs and buyers can predict trends mitigate risks and act decisively in a fastmoving market. This role demands equal parts data fluency stakeholder diplomacy and product craftsmanship to deliver a platform that becomes the brain of Europes automotive ecosystem.
You will support the Product Leader to execute the product strategy act as the liaison between customers business users and the product owner and support the implementation of key outcomes by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders.
Within the organisation youll work with multiple stakeholders across the wider international business as well as Sales Operations Customer Support Marketing Finance Legal and Senior Business Leaders.
You will develop a strong understanding of the business people products and customers to help you develop the right products with your development team to solve the right customer problems. You will support research and discovery to evaluate product opportunities and define the requirements to be built to address those opportunities. You must be able to understand your customers and users and empathise with their problems to develop the right solutions in collaboration with your team.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Ownership
- Define the product vision roadmap and success metrics for the Control Tower Decision Engine aligning with Cox Automotives panEuropean commercial goals.
- Prioritize use cases (e.g. demand forecasting dynamic pricing channel allocation) based on ROI and technical feasibility.
- Balance longterm platform scalability with rapid MVP delivery to meet tight timelines.
2. CrossFunctional Leadership
- Partner with Data Scientists to operationalize ML models ensuring they solve realworld problems (e.g. Why is inventory turnover 20 slower in Italy).
- Collaborate with Engineering to architect a cloudnative APIfirst platform (AWS/Azure) that scales across 15 EU markets.
- Work with Service Designers and UX Researchers to translate complex analytics into intuitive dashboards and alerts for nontechnical users.
3. Stakeholder Alignment
- Act as the voice of the engine to senior leadership translating technical capabilities into boardready value propositions.
- Build trust with OEMs and dealers through demos workshops and cocreation sessions (e.g. How can our engine reduce your excess stock by 30.
- Navigate regulatory complexities (GDPR PSD2 with Legal & Compliance teams to ensure data ethics and privacy by design.
4. DataDriven
- Define KPIs that measure both platform performance (e.g. model accuracy API latency) and business outcomes (e.g. dealer retention revenue uplift).
- Use A/B testing and user feedback to refine features ensuring insights drive action (e.g. How do we nudge dealers to act on lowstock alerts).
Skills Knowledge and Experience:
Essential
- 5 years in Product Management with 3 years focused on AI/MLdriven platforms or B2B data products (SaaS automotive fintech or supply chain preferred).
- Proven track record shipping products that leverage predictive analytics realtime data or decision automation.
- Technical fluency: Ability to collaborate with data scientists on model pipelines (Python PyTorch) and engineers on API design (REST/gRPC).
- Expertise in agile methodologies (Scrum Kanban) and tools (Jira Productboard).
- Deep understanding of EU data privacy laws and multimarket compliance.
Desired
- Experience with **automotive ecosystems** (OEMs dealerships auctions) or marketplace platforms.
- Familiarity with cloud AI/ML services (SageMaker Vertex AI) and BI tools (Tableau Power BI).
- MBA or advanced degree in Data Science Computer Science or related field.
STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE
We work with a carefully selected set of recruitment agencies and were not looking to add to our PSL.
We do not accept unsolicited agency CVs sent to the recruitment team or directly to the hiring manager. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited CVs.
Who we are
Cox Automotive is the worlds largest automotive service organisation. We
provide dependable solutions that improve performance and profitability
throughout the vehicle lifecycle to manufacturers fleets and retailers.
Our businesses are organised around our customers core needs across vehicle
solutions mobility remarketing funding and retail.
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Employment Type
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