Working at Freudenberg: We will wow your world!
Responsibilities:- Lead product management activities for the Application Center and execute product segment strategies that drive long-term profitable growth.
- Develop and maintain strategic plans for Application Center business segments and translate them into actionable priorities.
- Conduct market, customer, and competitor analysis to identify trends and uncover new business opportunities.
- Manage forecasting and annual sales planning, including maintaining sales forecasts across sites, product lines, and markets.
- Lead costing and pricing activities while identifying and driving margin improvement initiatives.
- Partner with customers and internal teams by coordinating visits, presentations, and cross-functional commercial activities globally.
- Promote Freudenberg Guiding Principles while supporting safety, quality, environmental compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering required; MBA preferred.
- Minimum of five years of industry or product management experience, ideally within manufacturing or technical sales environments.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to work with large data sets, forecasting, and market insights.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to collaborate across all organizational levels and with external partners.
- Ability to read product drawings and understand product costing to support pricing and business decisions.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities while remaining self-motivated and team-oriented.
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally; experience with Lean/Six Sigma preferred; familiarity with QAD and Sales Data Warehouse a plus.
The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Alto Products Corp.Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering
- MBA
- Minimum of five years of industry or product management experience
- Strong analytical skills with large data management
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to read product drawings and understand costing
- Experience with Lean/Six Sigma
- Familiarity with QAD and Sales Data Warehouse
Freudenberg Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Freudenberg Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Freudenberg Group.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is considered strong at many U.S. sites, with low‑cost options, HSA contributions, and on‑site clinics in some locations.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is standard across U.S. entities, though exact match mechanics differ by business group and year.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is often described as good, with some locations offering generous holiday schedules.
Freudenberg Group Insights
What We Do
Freudenberg is a global technology group that strengthens its customers and society long-term through forward-looking innovations. Together with its partners, customers and research institutions, the Freudenberg Group develops leading-edge technologies and excellent products and services for about 40 markets and for thousands of applications: seals, vibration control components, technical textiles, filters, specialty chemicals, medical products and the most modern cleaning products. Strength of innovation, strong customer orientation, diversity, and team spirit are the cornerstones of the Group. The 170-year-old company holds strong to its core values: a commitment to excellence, reliability and pro-active, responsible action. In 2022, the Freudenberg Group employed more than 51,000 people in some 60 countries worldwide and generated sales of more than €11.7 billion. Learn more about us and visit our digital home at freudenberg.com and read the stories that make us Freudenberg. Visit and follow us at www.freudenberg.com https://www.instagram.com/freudenberg.group/ www.youtube.com/FreudenbergGroup www.facebook.com/freudenberggroup *** Netiquette *** We look forward to receiving your comments and posts. On behalf of all users, we ask for constructive contributions, mutual respect, courtesy and tolerance. All contributions will be checked and we reserve the right to delete contributions. This applies in particular to unlawful content, incorrect statements, advertising for third parties, spam or slander. In addition, we reserve the right to remove comments that are otherwise inappropriate or incorrect. Contributions made by external users do not necessarily reflect Freudenberg’s opinion. Please find our data protect information here: https://www.freudenberg.com/fileadmin/downloads/english/2020-11_DataProtectionInformation_SocialMedia_EN.pdf
