Product Manager

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG; Nuevo (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 vacation days per year

MultiSport card including employer's 


Cafeteria System (edenred)

Daily meal allowance

Pension scheme contributions

Salary during illness

Laptop and phone provided

Hybrid working

Job summary

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG is seeking a Product Manager to lead global product categories within the strategic framework. You will monitor international markets, manage portfolios across diverse product lines, and guide launches and phase-outs.

Your role includes cost improvement with cross-functional teams and active management of product changes from idea to execution. You will develop pricing strategies, invest in tools, and contribute to supplier strategies while ensuring on-time

Qualifications

• Degree in business administration or related field.
• Several years of professional experience are an advantage.
• Strong understanding of the automotive aftermarket value chain—from product development to the customer.

Responsibilities

• Manage designated product categories globally within the overarching strategy.
• Analyze international market and competition to support strategic positioning.
• Portfolio management and launches across multiple vehicle systems and product groups.
• Improve cost structure through planning and collaborative implementation with R&D and operations.
• Lead product changes from idea to implementation.
• Develop pricing settings, tool investments, and supplier strategies; ensure delivery performance.
• Drive business performance across product lifecycles and explore new sales potential.
• Support regions in achieving sales and revenue targets.
• Prepare key figures, reports and presentations for business segments.

Skills

Portfolio management

Market analysis

Pricing strategy

Strategic planning

Education

Degree in business administration, industrial engineering, marketing management or comparable course of study

Tools

PLM

Job description

Schaeffler is a dynamic global technology company and its success has been a result of its entrepreneurial spirit and long history of private ownership. Does that sound interesting to you? As a partner to all of the major automobile manufacturers, as well as key players in the aerospace and industrial sectors, we offer you many development opportunities.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Global management and development of designated product categories within the framework of the overarching strategy.
• Observation and analysis of the international market and competitive situation as a foundation for the strategic positioning of the area of responsibility.
• Portfolio management of the existing and/or future product range (technically sophisticated goods, several vehicle systems and product groups), including control of new product launches and phase-outs.
• Improvement of the cost structure of the responsible product group in cooperation with R&D, Industrial Engineering, plants, segments and operations through planning, implementation and control of appropriate measures.
• Active management of product changes from the idea creation to the actual implementation of the products change.
• Operational implementation of the program positioning by developing price settings, investing in tools, calculating business cases, making make-or-buy decisions, co-developing supplier strategies, ensuring delivery performance through inventory and supply planning, creating content for marketing campaigns and activing in the different sales channels.
• Develop programs, plans, and actions to drive business performance at all stages of the product lifecycle for the assigned products or product lines.
• Development of new sales potential (target groups, product forms, sales channels) in cooperation with the VLS Business Divisions and VLS Business Units.
• Support of the VLS regions in achieving sales and revenue targets.
• Business segment analyses including preparation of key figures, reports and presentations.

Your Qualifications

• Degree in business administration, industrial engineering, marketing management or comparable course of study
• Several years of specific professional experience are an advantage
• Strong understanding of the automitive aftermartket value chain – from product development to the customer
• Ability to define, prioritize, and drive tasks independently
• Entrepreneurial thinking as well as clear goal and result orientation
• 30 vacation days per year
• MultiSport card including employer's contribution
• Cafeteria System (edenred)
• Daily meal allowance
• Employer contribution to the employee's pension scheme
• Salary compensation during illness, according to company policy
• Company laptop and phone
• Hybrid Working

Aspects

Regular business trips to the german locations in Halle (Saale), Herzogenaurach and Frankfurt are mandatory.

As a global company with employees around the world, it is important to us that we treat each other with respect and value all ideas and perspectives. By appreciating our differences, we inspire creativity and drive innovation. In this way, we contribute to sustainable value creation for our stakeholders and society as a whole. Together, we advance how the world moves.

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