Product Manager (m/f/d) for Cooking Appliances

Your responsibilities

Product Management and Planning:

• Assist our Product Division in managing the entire lifecycle of European OBM products.
• Develop short-term and medium- to long-term product line plans and generate innovative concepts.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders to ensure projects are executed according to plan, comprehensively advancing product development and market launch.

Project Control and Implementation:

• Responsible for resource allocation, progress control, and risk management during project execution. Comprehensive control of project progress and continuous improvement of project process standards, promoting the launch of innovative products in the European region.
• Tracking the market performance of launched products and user feedback, continuously improving the product.

Market and User Research:

• Responsible for market analysis and user research in Europe, analyzing the local market competition situation from multiple dimensions, leading the implementation of localized user insights and evaluation work.
• Assisting the Product Division side in conducting new product evaluation, competitor analysis, and concept verification work.

Your profile

• Bachelors degree or above
• 5+ years of project management / product management experience in the home appliance industry, ideally experience with kitchen appliances
• Has deep insights into user research, market, and product research
• Ideally experience in key product planning and GTM implementation
• Proactive, goal oriented and self-driven working style
• Strong interpersonal, intercultural and communication skills
• Proficient German and English language skills

What we offer

• An international working environment with opportunities for professional growth
• A goal-oriented and collaborative organizational culture
• Flexible working hours
• Access to training programs and career development initiatives
• Employee benefit programs, including private pension contributions and lunch allowance

Contact details

If you would like to be part of the Midea success story, please apply via our online portal with your application documents (cover letter, CV, references, salary expectations and earliest possible starting date).

If you have any questions please contact Mrs. Jing Xu, HR Business Partner at Midea R&D Center in Stuttgart: [email protected]

About us

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME - With this slogan, Midea Group has been committed to enriching households and people's lives through innovative technologies and products for over 50 years. Through continuous development, Midea Group is now a global leading technology group in consumer electronics and air conditioning, robotics, industrial automation and logistics. Every day more than 190,000 employees from over 200 countries develop products and solutions for the world of tomorrow.

Midea Europe GmbH is a subsidiary of the Midea Group. With products of the brands Toshiba, Midea, Comfee we offer surprising solutions for our customers in Europe. Rapid growth, daily challenges and opportunities motivate our employees to help shape the Midea success story.