• Overall responsibility for one or more product groups throughout the entire lifecycle in coordination with the specialist departments
• Responsible for the long- and medium-term portfolio strategy
• Active participation in the creation of market, customer, and competitive analyses
• Extensive travel to all customers of the relevant product groups, both internal GEA customers and external customers
• Responsible for the content of the design tools
• Development of pricing strategies for one or more product groups
• Cost and margin responsibility
• Conducting product training
• Collaboration with authorities, committees, and organizations in the interest of the company
• Giving technical presentations
• Definition and development of new products and processes in collaboration with development, procurement, production, as well as the sales organization and the customer
• Accompanying and leading the market launch of new products

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Successfully completed engineering degree (mechanical engineering, industrial engineering) or comparable qualification
• 3 - 10 years of professional experience in the field of heating and cooling technology, preferably also as a product manager
• Sound knowledge in the areas of technology, finance, sales, and marketing
• Quick comprehension of complex relationships
• Organizational skills and entrepreneurial thinking, combined with innovative thinking and working methods, as well as conceptual and strategic strength
• Committed, open, and communicative personality with a high degree of customer orientation
• Independent, team-oriented, and structured way of working
• Willingness to travel (worldwide)
• Fluent language skills in English