Business Development Manager Networks (m/f/d)

U.I. Lapp GmbH; Stuttgart; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Home office

Global exposure

Staff events

Corporate discounts

Job summary

LAPP, based in Stuttgart, is seeking an experienced Product Manager to drive customer-specific solutions and strategic roadmaps for its Etherline and UNITRONIC portfolios. You will collaborate with sales, engineering, and production teams to deliver innovations for OEMs and system integrators worldwide.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in industrial connectivity, a technical degree, and fluency in German and English.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in product management, technical sales, or business development.
• Strong product, market, and technical expertise in industrial connectivity and automation.
• Strategic mindset with entrepreneurial execution and persuasion skills.
• Fluent in German and English; excellent communication with global customers.

Responsibilities

• Develop customer-specific product solutions and business cases for OEMs, machine builders, and integrators globally.
• Initiate and execute customer projects from first contact to product development.
• Build relationships with new and existing customers with sales teams to secure new business.
• Create and implement product strategies and 5-year roadmaps to monetize developments in Etherline and UNITRONIC.
• Coordinate full innovation lifecycle with cross-functional teams and expand production capabilities.
• Analyze market trends, identify requirements, and translate them into product needs.
• Establish and maintain global collaboration with stakeholders and share best practices.

Skills

Product management

Technical sales

Business development

German language

Education

Engineering degree (Electrical/Industrial/Mechatronics)

Job description

LAPP

LAPP is a family-owned company headquartered in Stuttgart and a global leader in cable and connection technology. Founded in 1959, we are still fully family-owned today. With around 6,300 employees, we are operating in over 80 countries – globally connected and regionally rooted. Working at LAPP means more: this is where inventive spirit and a hands-on mentality meet cherished values and tradition.

We offer all employees the freedom to develop and pursue new opportunities. Flexibility and personal responsibility are just as important to us as a family-friendly work environment. We value all our colleagues with their talents, ideas and perspectives.

After all, every personal contribution counts when it comes to meeting the needs of our customers from various industries together. Together we keep the industry alive:alive by LAPP – alive by YOU!

Your tasks

• Develop customer-specific product solutions and business cases for device manufactuer OEMs, machine builder and integrators globally (industrial automation & connectivity)
• Initiate and execute customer projects – from first contact to product development - while
• Build relationships with new and existing customers together with the responsible salespersons to secure new business
• Create and implement product strategies and 5-year business development roadmaps to successfully monetize new developments in the Etherline, Unitronic and Active portfolio
• Coordinate the full innovation lifecycle - from idea generation and business case development to project execution - in close cooperation with cross-functional internal teams and actively contribute to the future-oriented expansion of internal production capabilities
• Analyze market trends and growth potential in the industrial connectivity surrounding, identify market and customer requirements and translate them into product requirements to actively evolve and add innovations to the existing LAPP ETHERLINE® & UNITRONIC® portfolio
• Establish and maintain strong global collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, fostering knowledge sharing and dissemination of best practices

Your profile

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Product Management, Technical Sales, or Business Development within industrial connectivity solutions or related industries
• Degree in electrical engineering, industrial engineering, mechatronics, or a comparable technical discipline
• Strong product, market, and technical expertise in industrial Connectivity and industrial automation
• Strategic mindset with an entrepreneurial approach, demonstrating strong execution and persuasion skills
• Analytical and critical thinker with a solid commercial orientation and proven experience presenting new products, technical concepts, and technical solutions to customers
• Collaborative team player who is highly motivated, well organized, disciplined, and results driven
• Profiency in both German and English is required

Good reasons for LAPP

• Variety of tasks and responsibilities & plenty of scope for ideas
• Value-based family business
• Global player withflat hierarchies
• Flexible working hours models & home office
• Work life balance due to the possibility to swap shifts
• Social benefitsanddiscounts such as job train ticket & private parcel acceptance
• Personneldevelopment,onboarding & individual support
• Annual international soccer- & volleyball tournament
• Public transport connectiondirectly at station„Lapp Kabel“
• Sports- &health activitiesand healthy canteen
• Consulting in social and care services

Contact

U.I. LappGmbH · Schulze-Delitzsch-Street 25 · 70565 StuttgartWe arehappy to answer any questions you may have in advanceU.I. LappGmbH · Schulze-Delitzsch-Street 25 · 70565 StuttgartWe arehappy to answer any questions you may have in advance