Jobs at Freudenberg Group

Manages accounting and tax activities, including monthly and annual financial close, consolidation reporting for U.S. and German corporate offices, tax reporting, audits, and preparation of Mexican tax returns. Coordinates with plant controllers, legal entities, government bureaus, and internal and external auditors while ensuring compliance with international accounting standards and local fiscal requirements.

Identifies and evaluates new business opportunities, analyzes market strategies and deal financials, manages leads in CRM, partners with sales to convert leads into orders, reports on lead-generation KPIs, and collaborates on marketing campaigns for prospective and existing customers.

Partners with senior leaders to identify digital innovation and process improvement opportunities, manages and prioritizes the global IT demand portfolio, and owns demand management from business case through implementation handover. Leads digital transformation and strategic IT initiatives, aligns business goals with technology capabilities, and manages stakeholder engagement, escalations, and major incidents across international teams.

Leads automotive programs from award through launch and serial production. Manages APQP milestones, timing plans, budgets, KPIs, risks, issues, customer communications, and launch readiness. Coordinates global cross-functional teams across engineering, manufacturing, quality, supply chain, purchasing, and launch management to deliver programs on time, within budget, and according to customer and automotive quality requirements.

Supports project delivery, PMO methodology, project objectives, schedules, resources, scope, budgets, reporting, and improvement proposals. The role also contributes to knowledge management, application management standards, knowledge repositories, knowledge transfer, and business stakeholder alignment. It requires ERP knowledge, project management methods, functional and technical IT knowledge, communication skills, and fluent English.

The job posting provides no substantive responsibilities or qualifications beyond the Application Engineer title. The role is associated with Freudenberg’s Vibracoustic Nantes SAS and includes the company’s equal opportunity and diversity statement.

Senior finance leader responsible for plant financial performance, including P&L, profitability, budgeting, forecasting, working capital, standard costing, inventory valuation, variance analysis, and cost reduction. Partners cross-functionally on pricing, investments, profitability, and strategic decisions. Develops dashboards and analytics using Power BI, supports finance automation and AI-enabled reporting, and drives continuous improvement. The role requires manufacturing finance expertise, strategic thinking, stakeholder influence, and leadership potential for future Finance and Controlling opportunities.

Organizes outbound deliveries and import documentation, communicates with authorities, uses the EKÁER system, prepares invoices and banking documents, handles complaints and returns, allocates freight costs, performs freight-cost calculations, and monitors applicable legislation.

Manages B2B sales activities across a defined territory, including account and key-account management, new business development, pipeline management, distributor coordination, forecasting, reporting, and customer projects. Provides product and application training, monitors sales performance, supports customer service coordination, shares market insights, and represents the company at exhibitions. Requires professional cleaning industry knowledge, strong negotiation and communication skills, and at least five years of B2B sales experience.

Develops and optimizes cost-effective manufacturing processes, systems, and machinery. Supports production technology implementation, technical projects, quality improvement, process deviation analysis, complaint resolution, and new product launches. The role requires manufacturing process experience, project experience, lean and cost optimization knowledge, and familiarity with Six Sigma and systematic testing methods.

Provides technical support for materials, processes, and product development. Screens materials, develops implementation and scale-up methods for serial production, analyzes physical and electrochemical test data, and collaborates with manufacturing engineering, customers, vendors, and technical organizations.

Leads global IT strategy, demand and project portfolio management, international IT Business Partnering and Project Management teams, governance, stakeholder engagement, budgets, risks, innovation, and IT solution delivery across a global matrix organization.

Owns creation and maintenance of SKU and material master data in SAP ERP, including BOM and routing updates. Performs data audits, validation, reporting, and database support while assisting Supply Chain, Operations, Sales, R&D, and Finance. The role also maintains data procedures, supports process improvements, and ensures data accuracy, security, and confidentiality.

Analyze and optimize global supply chain and operational processes, improve inventory and delivery performance, develop KPI frameworks and Power BI dashboards, and lead cross-functional improvement projects. The role translates complex data into actionable recommendations, supports management decisions, standardizes processes, and collaborates with international teams across supply chain, manufacturing, sales, controlling, and technical functions.

Dual-degree student alternating between university study and practical training at Klüber Lubrication. Responsibilities include completing a pre-study internship, managing projects, conducting market analyses to identify sales opportunities, analyzing tribological problems across industries, and evaluating industry trends and innovations. The program provides tuition coverage and additional remuneration.

Manages laboratory operations, equipment calibration, quality-control testing, certificates of analysis, documentation, and customer complaint investigations. Coordinates inspections, audits, certifications, and compliance with laboratory, quality, environmental, safety, and automotive standards. Supports continuous improvement initiatives, monitors laboratory budgets, and oversees equipment investments while maintaining accurate testing records and witness samples.

Provides technical and process support to partner production sites, resolves operational disruptions and quality deviations, coordinates dual-source approvals, and supports lean, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, quality, and safety initiatives. The role also participates in shop-floor meetings, supports the team leader, and travels to partner production sites as needed.

Designs and manages AI solution and integration architectures for SG&A processes. The role evaluates AI platforms, leads pilots, integrates solutions with SAP and core business systems, manages platform lifecycles and roadmaps, monitors adoption and business value, and supports FinOps and chargeback. It also drives global AI governance, standardization, innovation, and adoption while translating complex architectures for business stakeholders and executives.

Leads the local HR function in Belgium, partnering with management and coordinating HR activities. Oversees talent acquisition, talent management, succession planning, learning, compensation and benefits, payroll quality, legal compliance, organizational development, and union relations. Supports HR strategy implementation, develops policies and procedures, and works effectively within a matrix organization while maintaining strong relationships with local and group stakeholders.

Manage global projects throughout their lifecycle, coordinating with Sales, product and process development, and customer technical teams. Own project quality, cost, and timing; support customer acquisition and satisfaction; translate customer needs into product solutions; and lead technical presentations and internal and external project reviews.