Key Responsibilities:
- Portfolio Strategy & Lifecycle Management: Develop and implement global product roadmap strategies across the entire product lifecycle - from initial ideation to phase-out
- Commercial Ownership & Design-to-Cost: Define business cases, cost structures, and global pricing frameworks to ensure the category's profitability and revenue growth. Apply strong analytical capabilities to consistently hit the right market price, ensuring products are designed from the start to match target price points backed by the most suitable production setup.
- Product Development & Interface Management: Act as the central cross-functional bridge to R&D and Design to balance appealing design with high cost-efficiency without compromising quality.
- Market & Competitor Analysis: Continuously analyze global market trends, customer requirements (B2B and B2C), and competitor offerings to identify commercial growth opportunities.
- Go-to-Market Strategy: Collaborate closely with Global Marketing and Regional Sales teams to plan and execute international launch campaigns, ensuring a clear value proposition and effective commercial rollout across all target channels.
- Sustainability & Material Innovation: Actively drive sustainable product designs and circular economy principles within the product category, ensuring eco-design and resource-efficient material choices remain commercially viable.
Your Profile:
- Education: Successfully completed university degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Product Design, or a related field.
- Experience: 5+ years of proven track record in international product management, ideally in sanitary industry, furniture, building materials, or related premium consumer durables.
- Expertise: Deep understanding of product lifecycle management, stage-gate processes, and category management.
- Analytical Skills: Strong ability to analyze market prices, compare price levels, and see how product features, costs, and production setups connect.
- Mindset: Pragmatic and commercially driven mindset paired with the ability to balance appealing design with high cost-efficiency and technical feasibility.
- Communication & Collaboration: Excellent cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
- Languages: Business fluent in English (written and spoken); German or another European language is a distinct advantage.
Skills Required
- University degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Product Design, or a related field
- At least 5 years of experience in international product management
- Experience in sanitary products, furniture, building materials, or premium consumer durables
- Deep understanding of product lifecycle management, stage-gate processes, and category management
- Strong analytical skills involving market pricing, product features, costs, and production setups
- Commercially driven, pragmatic mindset with ability to balance design, cost efficiency, and technical feasibility
- Excellent cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management, and presentation skills
- Business-fluent English, written and spoken
- German or another European language
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
