Product Manager with Sales & Purchasing 100% (m/f/d) D/F

About the job

We are a modern, dynamic company and a leader in the distribution of nursery and horticultural products. We are looking for a personality for our team who wants to take responsibility, think along and develop further.

Whether you already have professional experience or are at the beginning of your career: what matters to us is your drive, willingness to learn, interest in products, customers and markets, as well as your enjoyment in finding solutions together with others.

What are your responsibilities?

In this versatile position, you work at the interface of Product Management, Sales and Purchasing. You actively shape our range, bring in market and customer needs, and support the ongoing development of our products.

Depending on your experience, you will take on responsibility from the start or grow step by step into the tasks. You will be accompanied by an experienced team and at the same time have space to contribute your own ideas.

• You share responsibility for the design and optimisation of the product range so that we can offer our customers suitable and convincing solutions.
• You analyse market and customer needs and bring ideas for new products, adjustments or improvements.
• You work closely with Sales, Marketing, Purchasing and Warehouse to ensure ideas are implemented properly in practice.
• You are the contact person for specific customer enquiries, prepare quotations and support advice on our product range.
• Depending on your experience and induction phase, you are also directly involved in customer advice. Telephone customer contact helps you to get to know our customers, products and processes quickly and practically.
• You maintain contact with customers and suppliers and build sustainable relationships.

What you bring

• A commercial training, a degree or a comparable foundation.
• Initial professional experience is welcome but not a requirement. More important are motivation, willingness to learn and the desire to take responsibility.
• If you already have experience, we look forward to your knowledge – but it is equally important to us that you remain open, learn new things and question existing solutions.
• You are curious, think along and want to understand how products, customer needs, sales and purchasing are connected.
• You enjoy working in a team, are reliable and bring a healthy dose of initiative.
• You communicate openly, clearly and respectfully.
• You like to approach people and enjoy contact with customers, suppliers and internal interfaces.
• Interest in gardening topics, nursery supplies or technical products is a plus.
• You have fluent German skills and good French skills. Alternatively, you have solid basic knowledge of French and are willing to improve it quickly (preferably before starting ;)).

Why us?

• You receive a varied role close to product, market, sales and purchasing.
• You are supported by a committed team and can take on responsibility early on.
• We offer you a dynamic environment with flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths.
• With us, not only what you already know counts, but also what you want to learn and achieve.
• You work in a company with around 50 years of history that is continuously developing.

You should not work at Hortima if...

• status, titles, training and department are important to you, because: we meet each other at eye level – regardless of origin, status and position. Tasks, problem solving and support are cross-departmental.

• you have difficulty with transparent work and therefore quickly feel controlled, because: a learning organisation means continuously receiving feedback – regardless of where it comes from – and learning from it how you can develop further.
• you mainly think in terms of "right" and "wrong", because: most questions and decisions cannot be answered with "either/or". "It depends – and on what?" is the guideline of our thinking.
• following rules is more important to you than shaping rules, because: we need thinking creators who not only accept existing structures but actively develop them further.
• your expertise is the main reason why you fit with us, because: expertise is quickly outdated and can be learned at any time. For us, the right attitude, mindset, motivation and ability to learn are what matter most – qualities that shape our daily work.
• your main arguments are "common sense", "everyone else does it this way" or "we have always done it this way", because: to find better solutions, we discuss openly and on equal terms. For this, we need constructive arguments that question and advance the status quo.

Ready to grow with us?

Then we look forward to your application. Even if you do not meet all points 100%: if you bring motivation, willingness to learn and joy in products, customers and collaboration, we would like to get to know you.