Senior Product Manager Flavours T&N (m/f/d)
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Product Manager Flavours (Tobacco & Nicotine) to help us prepare for the next growth phase. This role combines strategic ownership of product lines with deep market insight, cross-functional leadership, and a global perspective. You will be responsible for driving the commercial success of our portfolio, ensuring it meets evolving customer needs, regulatory requirements, and long-term growth objectives.
Your Mission
- Cooperate with other product managers to define our product management function, processes and structures
- Own the global strategy for the Tobacco & Nicotine flavours portfolio, including collection management, positioning and innovation roadmap to ensure alignment with our growth objectives and market trends.
- Organize and take part in sensory assessments of our flavours in tobacco & nicotine products.
- Manage the full product lifecycle, from ideation to launch, optimization, and retirement.
- Monitor industry developments, consumer trends, and competitive activity in tobacco, nicotine, and adjacent categories.
- Partner with Sales and Marketing to develop compelling customer value propositions.
- Coordinate and prioritize new product developments in collaboration with our flavour development and sales team.
- Ensure all products comply with applicable global and local regulations.
- Drive the integration of sensory science and application expertise into product design.
- Set and track portfolio KPIs, including product success metrics.
- Support commercial teams in product selection and key customer projects.
- Optimize portfolio profitability through effective pricing in collaboration with our commercial function and cost management.
- Manage the Tobacco & Nicotine application and technology team and own technology-based projects with strategic partners of the Tobacco & Nicotine supply base.
- Collaborate with regional teams to adapt global strategy to local needs.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Business, or related field
- Minimum 8 years of experience in product management or category management, ideally within the flavour, tobacco, nicotine, or related consumer goods industries.
- Proven track record of managing a global portfolio with measurable commercial success.
- Existing knowledge and experience with flavours or tobacco products
- Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, and project management skills.
- Ability to work effectively across cultures and time zones.
- Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong understanding of the tobacco and nicotine regulatory environment.
Why you'll love working here
- Exciting tasks in an internationally operating, growing family business with flat hierarchies
- Flexible working hours and a hybrid working model
- 4 weeks remote work from other EU countries
- 30 days paid vacation per year
- Salary bands for a fair corporate culture
- Monthly allowance of €50 for your BAV
- Annual 360° feedback loops with clear promotion criteria and an individual career path
- Responsibility from day one in a company that encourages personal responsibility and growth
- Relocation costs can be reimbursed on a pro rata basis
- Regular company events such as summer party, Christmas party
- Paid team dinners or activities for each team twice a year
- Free parking right outside the door
- Perks and benefits: JobRad, subsidized lunch, subsidy for the Deutschlandticket, free language courses and discounted memberships at several gyms and for the Wellpass
- Fresh fruit, free drinks and snacks in the office
Arethia is an internationally oriented, globally leading, medium-sized company in the chemical industry, specialized in the development and production of flavors. For over 65 years, we have been developing customized product solutions in collaboration with our customers from our location near Hamburg. As an expanding and agile company with a highly motivated team, we are continuously growing and looking for new team members.