Shape & Create - And make it happen!
The Villeroy & Boch Group with its Ideal Standard brand is one of the world's leading manufacturers in the ceramics and lifestyle sector. With our innovative and stylish products from the Dining & Lifestyle and Bath & Wellness segments, we have been creating moments and rooms to feel good in since 1748. Our success is based on the passion, design expertise and innovative strength of our more than 13,000 employees in 42 countries. Want to become part of us? #shapeandcreate
Product Manager Furniture, B&W (m/w/d)
We count on you for these tasks:
Strategic alignment of product portfolio: recognizes growth opportunities and efficiency potentials, designs a medium to long-term portfolio strategy for your defined product portfolio - in line with the production and supply chain strategies - and coordinates this with the product field leader.
Project management: Develop, coordinate, and implement new product projects (gate process) including ensuring requirements for the market launch of new or further developed products, in particular with regard to quality, costs and timing. Determining the price positioning. Be responsible for project presentation and regular updates for senior management teams.
Active portfolio management: Active management of products and services over the entire product life cycle. This includes regular analysis of the portfolio and the associated lifecycle management. Together with marketing communications and Sales teams, explores new ways to increase product performance through marketing innovations and promotional measures.
Recognize potential and growth opportunities: Conducting and evaluating internal and external market analyses and observations (competitive analysis) as well as recognizing innovation potential in order to define effective measures to optimize sales, turnover, contribution margin.
Coaching/developing corporate juniors and trainees.
What we expect:
- Education: Completed university or university of applied sciences degree in business administration, industrial engineering or comparable (at least Bachelor).
- Experience: 3-5 years of professional experience, ideally in one of the areas of construction, housing, retail, and experience with key industry stakeholders (including installers, architects,...)
- Analysis & passion: digital oriented, strong analytical competence, and passionate for new, creative ideas.
- Proactive team player, strong communicator, flexible and goals & opportunity driven.
- You speak German? Good! And English? Great! 😊
Think outside the box with us! #shapeandcreate
What We Do
Opportunities for go-getters and goal-setters – become part of Villeroy & Boch!
Ceramic is our strength. But the ability to perceive things differently is also part of our DNA. For this precise reason, we are looking for motivated colleagues to join our 8,000 employees in 125 countries. People who are eager to make things happen and rise to new challenges. And to work with us to shape Villeroy & Boch's successful future. Find out more about our extensive and varied vacancies offering excellent career and development prospects – in departments including Marketing & Sales, Online Marketing & E-commerce, HR, Finance, SCM, IT and Production.
Take your first step on the career ladder with Villeroy & Boch
Pupils: build solid foundations for your career with an apprenticeship or a dual study programme.
Students: from work experience to student traineeships or dissertation – opportunities are available in many different departments.
Graduates: as part of our junior programme, we support you all the way to your first management position.
Professionals: we offer exciting opportunities for people at all stages of their careers, from entry-level positions to management roles.
You will take on exciting tasks as well as responsibility at Villeroy & Boch from day one. Because we firmly believe that each and every one of our employees has his or her own very individual strengths. We will help to you fully explore this valuable potential, with tailored training and development programmes, a balance between career and family life, an attractive working environment with impressive architecture, modern offices and a friendly atmosphere. And, of course, by rewarding outstanding performance.
Visit our careers website now to find out more about the company and our current vacancies. We look forward to hearing from you. Visit villeroyboch.com/career!
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