Head of Product Management (m/f/d)
Happiness is handmade. That's what Prym Consumer stands for! With a comprehensive portfolio of sewing, knitting, and crocheting products and matching accessories, we enable people everywhere to express their creativity, craftsmanship, and individuality in their own projects.
Prym Consumer is a trusted brand for end customers and a reliable partner for retailers worldwide. As part of the Prym Group, we have stood for craftsmanship excellence and entrepreneurial vision since 1530. We are guided by our commitment to constantly rethinking creative handicrafts. If you want to grow with a brand that combines tradition and innovation, Prym Consumer is the right platform for you.
Head of Product Management (m/f/d)
Location: Stolberg (Greater Area Aachen)
Your responsibilities:
- Lead and inspire people: You lead our Product Management team and coach the PMs in their dual roles as product managers and project leaders. You provide clear direction, encourage ownership and inspire commitment to shared goals. You create the conditions for focused work, high-quality results and efficient time-to-market.
- Develop a successful portfolio: You translate market opportunities and consumer insights into a prioritised product roadmap and work with your team to create meaningful differentiation from competitors. Sales potential, margins and target costs guide decisions on portfolio expansion, product updates and phase-outs. You manage portfolio complexity and commercial performance.
- Turn consumer understanding into consumer-centred solutions: You ensure that consumer needs guide product development and management. Together with your team, you gather and synthesise insights from multiple sources, translating them into informed portfolio decisions, relevant product concepts and clear value propositions. You sharpen product benefits and establish a solid foundation for development, marketing briefs and improvements to existing products.
- Manage product development and Stage-Gate: Together with your team, you guide projects through the product development process. You ensure that decision documents are well-founded, gate reviews are properly prepared and decisions are implemented. You prioritise parallel initiatives based on consumer value, commercial viability and effort. You plan capacity realistically and drive decisions when objectives compete.
- Deliver successful go-to-market strategies together: Together with Marketing, you develop go-to-market strategies with clear positioning, compelling reasons to buy and coordinated launch plans. You involve Sales at the relevant stages and align with them on market and channel requirements and sales execution. Together, you ensure launch readiness and agree measurable success targets. You and your team use market results and consumer feedback to improve products and future launches.
- Make collaboration effective: You work closely with Marketing and Sales and coordinate regularly with the teams in Asia and the Americas on products, market requirements and lessons learned. Together with related functions, you establish efficient workflows and clear responsibilities. You coordinate strategic portfolio and investment decisions with the Business Unit Head and the Global Product and Marketing Director, ensuring alignment with the global product and brand strategy.
Your profile:
- Several years of leadership experience in consumer product management: You have successfully led and developed people. You lead with composure, clarity and decisiveness, even in complex situations with competing demands. You can inspire enthusiasm for products and build support for change.
- A proven track record in product development and launches: You have been accountable for product launches with your team and have managed multiple parallel projects through Stage-Gate and product development processes. You understand how Product Management, Marketing and Sales work together to achieve market success.
- Strong methodological expertise: You are proficient in Stage-Gate, portfolio and lifecycle management, and managing multiple projects in parallel. Your toolkit includes roadmaps, resource planning, time management and risk management. You confidently use digital product and project management tools and coach your team in their application.
- Strong consumer insight and concept development skills: You understand how to generate relevant insights efficiently. You have translated consumer needs into distinctive product concepts and written concept statements. You combine existing insights, market and usage data, and qualitative and quantitative methods.
- Confidence working in international matrix organisations: You bring different perspectives together, make a compelling case for priorities and achieve workable decisions across functions and countries.
- You are enthusiastic about creative products and keen to understand how people use them: You try products yourself and bring this curiosity to your work with others. Personal experience with creative crafts or DIY projects is a plus.
What we offer:
- Security: A crisis-proof position within a globally active, family-owned company.
- Benefits: Attractive compensation, plus additional corporate social benefits (at least 30 days of vacation, company pension scheme, bike leasing, and much more…).
- Tangible Impact: Your commitment is visible; it goes directly into products that people all over the world hold in their hands every day.
- The Perfect Balance: We offer global presence and diverse business models, while maintaining an open culture and easy access to decision-makers.
- Future-Proof Package for Growth: Opportunities for professional development and individual training complement our attractive salary package.
Does this sound like you? Then we look forward to hearing from you! Applications from people with disabilities or equivalent status are explicitly welcome.
Prym Consumer Retail GmbH
Zweifaller Str. 130, 52224 Stolberg