Sr. Analyst, MD & Vocational

Inside the Role

MD & Vocational Product Strategy defines, aligns, and advances the company’s long-term product direction across a highly complex commercial vehicle portfolio, with a mission to drive market leadership and profitable growth. The team translates market intelligence, customer insights, competitive dynamics, regulatory requirements, emerging technologies, supplier roadmaps, and funding considerations into actionable product strategies and investment decisions that shape the future of Daimler Truck offerings.

As the organization’s voice of the customer, the team develops deep expertise within assigned market segments to identify customer needs and create growth strategies. By combining customer feedback with data-driven analysis, the team identifies opportunities to increase market share, drive unit sales, and ensure DTNA’s products deliver compelling value in every segment served.

Posting Information

We provide a scheduled posting end date to assist our candidates with their application planning. While this date reflects our latest plans, it is subject to change, and postings may be extended or removed earlier than expected.

We Take Care of Our Team

In this role, you will partner with customers, dealers, internal sales, product marketing, pricing, and marketing communications teams to shape and execute strategies that drive growth in DTNA’s Medium Duty and Vocational segments. You will become a market expert by conducting customer and industry research, identifying emerging trends, and translating insights into strategic recommendations that influence future product development and business investments. You will play a key role in preparing market assessments and strategic recommendations for Medium Duty & Vocational in the annual Q3 Roadmap Workshop and supporting Vocational Customer Council engagements to ensure the voice of the customer is reflected in DTNA’s long-term product strategy.

What You Drive at DTNA

• Lead product strategy, roadmap development, and execution for the MD & Vocational product portfolio, including M2, SD, 47X, 48X, and 49X platforms and segments.

• Translate customer, market, and technical inputs into actionable product strategies and initiatives, supporting execution from concept through launch and lifecycle optimization.

• Develop and submit Development Requests (DRs), including detailed Use Case Definitions that define functional requirements and operator interactions for hardware and software features.

• Ensure long-term competitiveness and strategic alignment of DTNA’s products by delivering data-driven recommendations that inform product, feature, and technology investment decisions.

• Capture and communicate the voice of the customer across the organization while serving as the subject matter expert for the Medium Duty and Vocational product portfolio and market segments.

• Develop and drive strategies, product definitions, roadmaps, and key decisions that support long-term growth and market leadership.

• Apply deep segment expertise to guide software and hardware requirements, assumptions, and key product and architecture decisions.

• Drive alignment across diverse stakeholders with competing priorities by leading cross-functional teams and enabling timely, data-driven decision-making.

• Influence without authority across a complex, matrixed organization, ensuring alignment across Engineering, Sales & Marketing, Finance, Procurement, Manufacturing, and global Daimler Truck partners.

• Champion continuous improvement and operational excellence while fostering a high-performing, collaborative team environment through complexity reduction, Kaizen events, strategic initiatives, and related efforts.

Knowledge You Should Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Project Management, Engineering, or a related field.

• 2 or more years of relevant experience.

• Knowledge of Daimler Truck North America systems and business processes.

• Knowledge of the MD & Vocational truck market and product portfolio

• Experience in project management or leading teams.

• Experience compiling, conducting, analyzing, and maintaining complex market information and intelligence.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Copilot.

• Experience working with various DTNA databases & tools (EMMA, Order Explorer, Polk, IBT, SpecPro, CoPilot 365) preferred

• Strong communication and networking skills.

• Highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple detailed tasks and work professionally with various levels of management.

• Excellent communication, persuasion, and negotiation skills.

• Ability to deliver compelling presentations in executive forums.

• Ability to quickly learn and deep dive into technical topics, becoming a subject matter expert in both software and hardware.

• Ability to travel up to 25%

Where We Work

This position is open to applicants who can work in (or relocate to) the following location(s)-

Portland, OR US. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Schedule Type:

Hybrid (4 days per week in-office / 1 day remote). This schedule builds our #OneTeamBestTeam culture, provides an unparalleled customer experience, and creates innovative solutions through in-person collaboration.

At Daimler Truck North America, we recognize our world is changing faster than ever before. By listening to the needs of today, we’re building to solve with cutting-edge solutions in sustainability and future driving technology across electric, hydrogen and autonomous. These solutions, backed by years of innovative success and achievement, continue DTNA’s legacy as the undisputed industry leader. Our evolving brand portfolio is second to none, including Freightliner Trucks, Western Star, Demand Detroit, Thomas Built Buses, Freightliner Custom Chassis, and Financial Services. Together, we work as one team towards our envisioned future – building a cleaner, safer and more efficient tomorrow for all.

That is what we are working toward - for all who keep the world moving.

Additional Information

• This position is not open for Visa sponsorship or to existing Visa holders
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work permanently in the country the position is located in at the time of application
• Final candidate must successfully complete a criminal background check
• Final candidate may be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screen
• Contractors, professional services, or other contingent workers should confirm with their local agency if they are eligible to apply for FTE positions
• EEO - Disabled/Veterans

Daimler Truck North America is committed to workforce inclusion and providing an environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, age, marital status, family relationship, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression (including transgender and transitioning status), genetic information, or veteran status.

For an accommodation or special assistance with applying for a posted position, please contact our Human Resources department at 503-745-8982 or toll free 800-206-3369. For TTY/TDD enabled call 503-745-2137 or toll free 866-355-6935.