Product Manager (m/w/d)

Location: Mettlach, Germany

Company

Villeroy & Boch Group is a global manufacturer in the ceramics and lifestyle sector, operating across Dining & Lifestyle and Bath & Wellness with more than 13,000 employees in 42 countries.

What you will do

• Execute the 2–5 year product strategy for Taps & Fittings across assigned markets, aligning regional brand, portfolio, and commercial strategies.
• Share accountability for DB1 profitability, turnover, and volume development.
• Lead product concepts and end-to-end launches across Retail, E-Commerce, and Project channels through the stage-gate process.
• Coordinate Technical R&D, Regional Commercial teams, Marketing, designers, and engineers throughout product development and lifecycle management.
• Steer compliance, quality, value engineering, feature upgrades, sales measures, and promotional initiatives.
• Conduct market, competitor, trend, and consumer analyses and translate smart bathroom innovations and emerging technologies into NPD briefs.

Requirements

• University degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Marketing, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of practical experience in product or brand management, ideally with complex, technical, or design-oriented industrial products.
• Strong understanding of financial planning, trade marketing, pricing structures, and business case modeling, including DB1, margins, and volume.
• Ability to read technical drawings, understand industrial production processes, and collaborate with designers and engineers.
• High initiative, structured problem-solving skills, flexibility, teamwork, and a strong drive to get things done.
• Very good MS Office skills, particularly Excel.
• Fluent English is essential.

Nice to have

• SAP experience.
• German language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment in an international manufacturing group.
• Collaboration across regional commercial, marketing, technical R&D, design, and engineering functions.
• Work focused on innovative and stylish products in the Bath & Wellness and ceramics sectors.