Senior Portfolio Manager (m/f/d)

Your responsibilties

• Overall responsibility for the product portfolio across the full product lifecycle
• Strategic portfolio and lifecycle management (portfolio/category/price/channel mix, idea-to-market, product exits and product-line optimization)
• Analyze market trends, consumer and customer requirements and competitor products; define targets to develop and steer the portfolio roadmap
• Initiate decisions on product launches, variants, relaunches and exits (with Initiative Management and other critical departments, 80 globally and 20 locally)
• Create business cases for new products, relaunches and assortment decisions in a cross-functional and cross-department view; working with the given Business KPIs (exits, SMUs)
• Develop channel- and customer-specific SMUs in cross-alignment with commercial and operational teams from a global and local level
• Economic evaluation of the portfolio performance of the particular category (topline and bottom line, current and future)
• Close collaboration with technical product development teams to ensure quality, safety and legal requirements are met (e.g. product safety, standards, labelling)
• Steer critical departments to ensure successful go-to-market launches and campaigns)

What we are looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in business or comparable
• Experience in product or portfolio management, ideally in consumer goods, household goods or kitchenware
• Good understanding of materials (e.g. steels, coatings, handles), manufacturing processes and quality
• Experience in managing product lifecycles and assortment strategies
• Proven Portfolio and product P&L experience for the responsible product category
• Business acumen (costing, business cases, margin steering)
• Experience and knowledge of the global markets of the product category (incl. competitor knowledge)
• Experience working in with international teams
• Confident to use relevant software for presentation, analysis, collaboration
• Very good German and English (advantageous: Japanese or French)

What we offer

• Flexible work hours through flex time
• Remote work, coordinated within the team
• Company daycare
• Company cafeteria
• Bicycle leasing
• Employee parking spaces
• Discounts on ZWILLING products
• Permanent employment contracts