Working at Freudenberg: We will wow your world!
Responsibilities:Strategy Development
- Support the development and execution of business unit and enterprise growth strategies.
- Identify strategic growth vectors aligned with corporate objectives and market trends.
- Facilitate strategic planning processes and growth portfolio reviews.
- Translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives and roadmaps.
Market Intelligence & Competitive Analysis
- Monitor market dynamics, customer trends, competitive developments, and emerging technologies.
- Conduct market attractiveness assessments and industry analyses.
- Identify market disruptions, growth opportunities, and potential risks.
- Maintain a fact-based understanding of competitors, business models, and strategic moves.
Growth Opportunity Identification & Prioritization
- Generate and evaluate new business opportunities across products, applications, markets, and geographies.
- Lead opportunity screening and prioritization using structured strategic frameworks.
- Recommend resource allocation based on commercial attractiveness and strategic fit.
- Develop growth pipelines and investment portfolios.
Business Case Development
- Build robust business cases, including market sizing, financial modeling, risk assessments, and implementation scenarios.
- Evaluate potential investments and growth initiatives using ROI and value-creation methodologies.
- Present recommendations to senior leadership and investment committees.
- Track business case assumptions and post-implementation results.
Innovation & New Product Commercialization
- Partner with R&D and Product Management to assess and commercialize innovation projects.
- Evaluate customer needs and market viability for new products and technologies.
- Support go-to-market strategies, value proposition development, and launch planning.
- Monitor commercialization performance and customer adoption.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Lead strategic initiatives across Sales, R&D, Operations, Marketing, Finance, and Product Management.
- Drive alignment among stakeholders in a matrix environment.
- Facilitate decision-making and executive reviews.
- Ensure successful execution of approved growth initiatives.
- Master or Advanced Degree preferably in Finance or Business Administration, MBA is a plus
- Solid background in Sales & Marketing in Nonwovens or related industry
- Strong strategic thinking and business acumen;
- Diplomatic skills in working within a matrix
- Stamina and execution focus
- Proficient skills in English
- Excellent skills in MS Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel) and Sharepoint
- Excellent presentation and workshop skills & techniques
- Ability to travel up to 30%
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.
Freudenberg Performance Materials LP (USA)Skills Required
- Master’s or advanced degree, preferably in Finance or Business Administration
- MBA
- Solid background in sales and marketing within nonwovens or a related industry
- Strong strategic thinking and business acumen
- Diplomatic skills for working within a matrix organization
- Stamina and execution focus
- Proficiency in English
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and SharePoint
- Excellent presentation and workshop skills and techniques
- Ability to travel up to 30%
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
