Senior Product Portfolio Manager (m/f/d)

Senior Product Portfolio Manager (m/f/d)

Wir erweitern unser Team aus leidenschaftlichen Menschen, die die kulinarische Welt revolutionieren. Wenn Sie in einem dynamischen Unternehmen arbeiten möchten, das die Zukunft der Küche gestaltet, sind Sie bei ZWILLING herzlich willkommen.

Your responsibilties

• Overall responsibility for the product portfolio across the full product lifecycle
• Strategic portfolio and lifecycle management (portfolio/category/price/channel mix, idea-to-market, product exits and product-line optimization)
• Analyze market trends, consumer and customer requirements and competitor products; define targets to develop and steer the portfolio roadmap
• Initiate decisions on product launches, variants, relaunches and exits (with Initiative Management and other critical departments, 80 globally and 20 locally)
• Create business cases for new products, relaunches and assortment decisions in a cross-functional and cross-department view; working with the given Business KPIs (exits, SMUs)
• Develop channel- and customer-specific SMUs in cross-alignment with commercial and operational teams from a global and local level
• Economic evaluation of the portfolio performance of the particular category (topline and bottom line, current and future)
• Close collaboration with technical product development teams to ensure quality, safety and legal requirements are met (e.g. product safety, standards, labelling)
• Steer critical departments to ensure successful go-to-market launches and campaigns)

What we are looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in business or comparable
• Experience in product or portfolio management, ideally in consumer goods, household goods or kitchenware
• Good understanding of materials (e.g. steels, coatings, handles), manufacturing processes and quality
• Experience in managing product lifecycles and assortment strategies
• Proven Portfolio and product P&L experience for the responsible product category
• Business acumen (costing, business cases, margin steering)
• Experience and knowledge of the global markets of the product category (incl. competitor knowledge)
• Experience working in with international teams
• Confident to use relevant software for presentation, analysis, collaboration
• Very good German and English (advantageous: Japanese or French)

What we offer

• Flexible work hours through flex time
• Remote work, coordinated within the team
• Company daycare
• Company cafeteria
• Bicycle leasing
• Employee parking spaces
• Discounts on ZWILLING products
• Permanent employment contracts

We are committed to professional equality among our employees. In accordance with SGB IX, people with severe disabilities will be given special consideration in the hiring process if they are equally qualified. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of their cultural or social background, age, religion, beliefs, or sexual identity. We look forward to getting to know you. Please submit your application via our online application form, including your salary expectations and your earliest possible start date.

Ansprechperson

ZWILLING J.A. Henckels AG
Andrea Neumann