As a Local Product & Portfolio Manager, you will play a pivotal role in bringing our global vision to life locally, serving as the essential strategic bridge between our central Headquarters and the local market.
Your Responsibilities
Local Portfolio & Lifecycle Management
- Analyze the global product portfolio defined by HQ and select the most suitable range of products (collections, variants, and accessories) for the local market.
- Coordinate the local launch of new products and plan the strategic phase-out of legacy collections in strict alignment with global HQ guidelines.
- Collaborate closely with central teams and local authorities to ensure that all distributed products fully comply with local technical certifications and mandatory country regulations.
Pricing & Market Positioning
- Define and optimize the local price list starting from global pricing guidelines, balancing internal margin targets with local market competitiveness.
- Continuously monitor local competitors to identify market threats and business opportunities, providing structured, actionable feedback to HQ.
New Product Launches & Trade Activation
- Commercial & Marketing Materials: Ensure the accurate localization (translation, local technical compliance, and commercial adaptation) of catalogs, technical sheets, price lists, and communication materials for B2B professionals (Profi-Portal) and end consumers.
- Product Training: Support the local training team in gathering detailed technical features and unique selling propositions (USPs) to deliver highly effective training sessions to the local sales force, distributors, and key retail partners.
D. Headquarters-to-Country Bridge (HQ-Local Alignment)
- Strategic Alignment (Top-Down): Participate in regular alignment meetings with the central HQ team, ensuring that global brand identity and design standards are strictly maintained and executed at the local level.
Your Profile
- University degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field, alongside solid experience in product management, portfolio strategy, or trade marketing (ideally within the sanitary, building materials, or premium consumer goods industry).
- Strong analytical mindset with a proven ability to interpret market data, conduct competitor benchmarking, and optimize pricing structures.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to act as a collaborative interface between global HQ and local sales teams.
- High degree of self-organization, a proactive mindset, and the ability to manage multiple localization projects under tight deadlines.
Skills Required
- University degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field
- Solid experience in product management, portfolio strategy, or trade marketing
- Experience in the sanitary, building materials, or premium consumer goods industry
- Strong analytical skills, including market data interpretation, competitor benchmarking, and pricing optimization
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to coordinate global and local stakeholders
- Strong self-organization and proactive working style
- Ability to manage multiple localization projects under tight deadlines
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! Legal notice & privacy policy: https://www.villeroy-boch.de/social-media-datenschutz-impressum.html
