Product Manager ContiTech IEMEA Automotive Aftermarket CTTR

Description

The company makes tires and industrial products, with about 95,000 employees in 54 countries and markets, and sales of €39.7 billion in 2024. Founded in 1871, it serves automotive manufacturers and industrial and end customers worldwide.

The industry specialist division has about 39,000 employees in more than 40 countries and sales of roughly 6.4 billion euros in 2024. It supplies materials-based solutions for off-highway vehicles, rail, road, air, construction, industrial sites, food and furniture, with core operations in Asia, Europe, and North and South America.

This role sits in the automotive aftermarket product team and covers the product portfolio for a business area, from strategy through to phase-out.

Responsibilities

• Put product strategies into practice, built around customer needs and value selling, in line with business area and segment strategies.
• Study specific markets and trends to support and steer business strategy.
• Set market entry plans and make sourcing decisions, including make-or-buy and footprint development.
• Give strategic direction that matches segments, central functions and the business area strategy.
• Support selected business area and sector strategic projects, such as business field portfolio analysis.
• Help align regional and global work.
• Own selected product portfolios at business area level and lead the work needed to hit business area targets with your assigned product data management team.
• Run the portfolio and product lifecycle: identify products, launch them, protect profitability, phase them out, set strategic price points and create product training materials.
• Drive product development, technology and operations to deliver the portfolio and roadmap as successfully and profitably as possible.
• Find and build current and future value-selling opportunities.
• Collect and share market intelligence.
• Maintain product master data for product information management, the product hierarchy, and inputs for marketing.
• Consolidate product requirements, including quality, from segment input and other sources.
• Work with sales and application engineering, R&D, purchasing and operations to develop new products and improve existing lines to meet customer and market needs.
• Prepare business cases for strategic decisions, such as new business opportunities or phase-outs.
• Support portfolio topics, growth fields, business models, white spots and standardization across the business area.
• Share responsibility for transforming the product portfolio, including carrying it out.
• Support business area and group sector projects and process work.
• Lead selected projects and teams to finish on time, within scope and budget, and to quality requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering, economics or a similar field.
• 3+ years of professional B2B experience in at least one of: product management, sales, marketing, product development or application engineering, or project management.
• Preferred: experience in the automotive aftermarket industry.
• Experience with automotive products.
• Proven experience in both classic and agile project management and leadership.
• Proven record of working effectively in highly diverse global teams.
• Strong multicultural communication and networking skills.
• Highly proficient in English, written and spoken.
• Willingness to travel for business, domestically and internationally.

Conditions

Hybrid schedule. Agree the arrangement with your manager, as the company offers flexible hours.

Based at the Timisoara plant or office, with a company bus available from the Timisoara area if you work on site.

We welcome applicants of any nationality, background or language.

Benefits

• 13th salary, paid once a year in December.
• Meal tickets worth 40 RON.
• Private health insurance, a medical subscription through Signal Iduna.
• Referral bonus for candidates you refer who are hired.
• A book lending service: borrow books and receive them at the office.
• A sports benefit card.
• Discounts with partner vendors on various products and services, including restaurants and kindergartens.
• Rewards for improvement ideas through the company's internal idea program, with the bonus set by the idea management team based on your idea.
• Extra paid days for your own or your child's wedding, or the birth of a child.
• A bonus when your family grows.
• Support in difficult life events, with free days and financial help assessed case by case.
• 22 vacation days a year. From your 3rd year you get 1 more day, then another day every 2 years, up to a maximum of 29.
• Many opportunities for professional development within the company.