Product Specialist in England

About Us:

OMODA & JAECOO are new brands built by Chery Group, which is a leading Chinese automobile company. OMODA & JAECOO operate individually from other brands of Chery Group. Its business scope covers the R&D, production and sales of passenger cars.

Chery has always focused on developing domestic and international markets. Chery has continuously deepened its globalization through the implementation of product strategy, localization strategy and talent strategy. After more than 20 years of development, Chery's sales and services network covers more than 80 countries and regions and has won the trust of 11 million consumers worldwide.

Position Overview:

As the Product Specialist, you will serve as the primary subject matter expert, specification guardian, and administrative anchor for a designated vehicle model across the Omoda and Jaecoo portfolios. This role focuses on commercial product configuration and feature literacy rather than engineering design. You will own the lifecycle data for your assigned model, ensuring total accuracy across build sheets, digital configurators, and industry databases, while providing critical administrative and compliance support to the wider product and operations teams.

Responsibilities:

• Model Ownership & Specification Management
  • Product Championship: Act as the definitive local expert on your assigned vehicle model's lifecycle, variant structures, and future updates.
  • Specification Matrix Management: Maintain flawless accuracy of all vehicle equipment lists, trim levels, optional packs, color combinations, and standalone options.
  • Asset Alignment: Cross-reference factory build sheets against marketing materials, price lists, and digital configurators to ensure consumer-facing data is 100% correct.
  • Market Benchmarking: Conduct regular specification audits against competitor models to identify product gaps and packaging opportunities.
• Feature Literacy & Commercial Product Tech
  • User-Technology Expertise: Develop an expert operational knowledge of user-facing vehicle features, including infotainment systems, connectivity, and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) menus.
  • Commercial EV Competency: Maintain a fluent understanding of everyday electric vehicle attributes—such as range metrics, charging speeds, and connector compatibility—to support sales and fleet queries.
  • Factory Liaison: Review technical option codes and engineering update bulletins from global headquarters, translating them into commercial product updates for the local team.
• Team Administration & Operations
  • Industry Database Management: Own the accurate, timely input of vehicle data into internal tracking systems and external industry benchmarking tools (e.g., JATO Dynamics).
  • Cross-Functional Administration: Provide administrative support to bridge the local product department with sales operations, aftersales, and regional networks.
  • Documentation Control: Draft and distribute official product briefing notes, trim walk guides, and variant comparison sheets for internal and dealer network use.
• Regulatory Support & Homologation
  • Compliance Coordination: Assist the product team in tracking and organizing regulatory paperwork required for local market type-approval.
  • Build Verification: Audit inbound factory order configurations against local market compliance requirements to identify and rectify specification errors prior to shipping.

Requirements:

• Automotive Experience (Required): 2–3 years within an automotive OEM, national sales company, fleet provider, or major dealer group (ideally in product planning, vehicle ordering, distribution, product development or a product specialist role).
• Engineering Background (Required): Hold a degree in engineering and have a thorough understanding of automotive engineering.
• Homologation Exposure (Preferred but Not Essential): Prior administrative exposure to vehicle type-approval, tracking emissions documentation, or dealing with automotive regulatory bodies is advantageous.
• High Attention to Detail: Exceptional administrative rigor; a natural affinity for working with data matrices, spreadsheet data, and complex option codes.
• Clear Communication: Ability to synthesize complex specification data into clean, easy-to-understand product guides.
• Organizational Agility: Capable of prioritising operational and administrative tasks in a fast-paced environment.