Strategy & Product Management Co-op

You have the knowledge, now gain the experience. And why not with a global market-leading company? At Doosan Bobcat we offer a robust internship program to college students like you. Hone your creativity, critical thinking abilities, and your collaborative spirit, all while moving our company forward.

 

Build your future on a foundation of proven success. For us innovation is key, we strive to produce an experience for students beyond other traditional internship programs. You will be referred to as a "co-op" and you will be considered a true employee. Co-op positions are an eight-month long opportunity. You don't need a lot of experience to join, just bold dreams and a strong work ethic. Give us eight months and we'll give you a path for a lifetime.

 

We are looking for motivated individuals to assist our Strategic Planning Team which also, includes Economics and Forecasting with the development and execution of a broad range of data analysis, reports and other development projects.

•   Create dashboards to automate and monitor strategy initiatives

•   Create and maintain repository for strategy initiative progress updates

•   Support ISO (International Organization for Standardization) process evaluation, documentation, and communication

 

•   Support strategy execution process by collecting and consolidating strategic initiative progress updates

•   Support and accelerate business expansion projects and new business opportunity initiatives

•   Support acquisition initiatives

 

•   Assist in developing business cases and product requirements for new product development (NPD) projects

•   Assist in coordinating and progressing projects through the Phate-Gate system used in NPD process

•   Assist with sales promotional program implementation, verification and analysis 

•   Assist in developing marketing strategies for products and working with the marketing organization

•   Develop and maintain reports the measure product performance and distribute to appropriate stakeholders

•   Work with the product team on product evaluations and related changes

•   Assist in planning and implementation of meetings/events

•   Conduct market research projects which involve identifying appropriate data sources, collecting and analyzing that data, then preparing and presenting recommendations

•   Conduct surveys by various means (email, phone, etc), then organize and present results

•   Support Product team with maintaining Oracle configurator, to ensure order accuracy, and with clarification of sales reports

•   Support Product Specialists and product engineering with data transfer from hardcopy to electronic pre-made files

•   Support Product Specialists with attachment specifications in IT systems, assure accuracy of data and VOC documentation

•   Pull and analyze market data for the dealers, attachments, and application segments

•   Correspondence with vendors (machine specifications)

•   Transfer of benchmarking raw data to presentation format

•   Support field staff and cross functional departments with product specifications

•   Equipment preparation, cleaning, delivery, and transportation

•   Training site preparation and maintenance

•   Support of the public web site and facilitate web site inquiry response effort

•   Jr. or Sr. standing seeking a degree in Business Administration, Management, Economics, Marketing, Finance or other Business Related field

•   3.0 or higher GPA preferred

•   Previous data analysis and strong analytical skills are required

•   Previous experience in economic research/analysis, statistical analysis, forecasting, or economic modeling a plus

•   Comfortable presenting analysis and research to senior managers

•   Excellent communications skills and high level of motivation 

•   Robust experience in MS Excel and PowerPoint

•   Previous internship or related experience a plus but not required

•   Ability to follow written instructions

•   Be able to commit to Bobcat for the entire term of the co-op (8 months)

•   Be able to adapt to working in a corporate setting.

•   Be able to independently work through a project from start to finish with limited supervision, as well as have the skills to work collaboratively on a team.

•   Experience with construction equipment preferred

•   Experience Requirement: 0>2 years

•   Travel Required: <10%

•   Global Breadth: Single Site (One Location)

 

Doosan Bobcat, a leading global manufacturer of construction, agriculture and landscaping equipment, attachments and services, is committed to empowering people to accomplish more.