Senior Product Manager (m/f/d)

About the job

In this role, you will manage the FREITAG product portfolio, which includes bags, accessories, and circular services, in collaboration with the product team. Based on the company strategy, product and creative directions, you will continuously develop the product offering. In doing so, you will keep our ambitions regarding circularity as well as the commercial success of the products and appropriate circular services in collaboration with the respective specialists in mind.

Your Mission

• You collaborate to shape the Products & Services roadmap and the go-to-market calendar together with Product Design and Creative Direction
• You independently lead and are responsible for product developments including suitable circular services together with the project team from kick-off to launch
• You create product strategies, presentations, and document milestones and project updates – acting as the bridge between Product Development, Operations, Sales, and Communications
• You manage all aspects of the product lifecycle, monitor and maintain existing products with ongoing success control, and initiate market-specific measures to continuously develop the product offering
• You ensure that the portfolio is balanced through targeted long-tail analyses, phase-outs, and rotations, and that each product fulfils a clear, non-overlapping purpose
• You research current trends and work closely with markets and sales channels to gather customer feedback and inputs
• You collaborate with contacts from production and supply chain to optimise production costs and achieve target margins for new and existing products

Your Backpack

• You have at least 5 years of experience in the development and/or management of consumer goods, products, and/or services, ideally in the circular economy
• You possess strong skills in analysing numbers, data, and forecasts – essential for planning as well as a deep portfolio and market understanding
• You have strong project management skills and have already been responsible for and led product and/or process development projects
• You have a pronounced entrepreneurial mindset and act accordingly, and you are a holistic, interdisciplinary, and conceptually thinking personality
• You have a strong understanding of product trends, fashion, and brands that make FREITAG products relevant in the contemporary cultural context
• You have a great interest in developments in the circular economy, identify with FREITAG’s purpose (we think and act in cycles), and bring a strong sense, skills, and interests in contemporary culture, sustainability, and the circular economy
• You are an open team player with lots of enthusiasm and energy, proactive, communicative, and with a natural sense of humour
• You are fluent in spoken and written German and English; any additional language is an advantage