Product Manager Technical Wholesale – Coatings & Paints (m/f/d)

Are you experienced in product management and understand product range, purchasing and sales alike? You also keep an overview of complex market requirements, recognize opportunities in the market thanks to your proximity to sales and consistently implement them in successful product range and supplier strategies? Then fit in our product management. The following activities are expected here: Strategic and operational control of defined product groups and further development and optimization of the product portfolio Analysis of market, competition and sales data to derive assortment, price and growth strategies Identification, extraction, support and further development of suppliers and product partners Negotiation of purchase prices, bonus agreements, terms and framework contracts Planning, control and success control of promotions, sales actions and campaigns Close cooperation with sales, marketing and purchasing, support of sales through product, market and competitive information, as well as ensuring market-oriented pricing and assortment positioning

Closed commercial training, such as the merchant/buyer for wholesale and foreign trade management, industrial merchant/buyer, an economic-oriented study or a comparable qualification Multiannual professional experience in category management, product management, purchasing or in a comparable function, some of which time in wholesale or technical trade, ideally in the fields of paints, paints, automotive or industrial needs Safe handling of ERP systems and MS Office, especially Excel Oral and written communication security in good German, combined with pronounced negotiation competence, self-confident appearance and enforcement ability towards suppliers and business partners High sales orientation and good understanding for customer and market requirements An analytic and entrepreneurial thinking, decision-making personality with fun in agile work, which implements its projects proactively, pragmatically and targetedly

A responsible key position with a large design space Direct influence on assortment, price and supplier and sales strategies Short decision-making and medium-sized corporate culture A motivated team and partnership Compensation for performance Individual development and training opportunities