Sales Project Manager – Sealing Technologies (all genders)

In this role you drive technical leadership for injection and compression rubber molding, collaborating across sales, sourcing, and suppliers to deliver innovative, cost-conscious customer solutions. You will shape tooling, materials, and processes for engineering projects and guide Make-or-Buy decisions from prototype to serial production. You’ll lead cross-functional, international initiatives to optimize costs, supplier performance, and product industrialization. This position offers a chance to apply advanced rubber technologies in a global setting with a clear impact on project outcomes and profitability.

• global market leader
• ownership and impact
• cutting-edge rubber technologies
• international collaboration
• clear career paths
• professional and personal development

• Provide technical leadership for rubber molding components, including tooling design, material selection, and manufacturing processes
• Lead engineering support during quotations, performing should-cost analyses and selecting manufacturing partners
• Drive Design-to-Cost initiatives by optimizing materials, tooling concepts, and production technologies
• Manage Make-or-Buy decisions, supplier selection, and sampling through PPAP/approval to serial production
• Optimize Total Cost of Ownership by building a high-performing supplier portfolio with quality and reliability
• Lead engineering projects and act as technical center for rubber molding technologies
• Collaborate with sales, sourcing, suppliers, and cross-functional teams to deliver competitive customer solutions

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, Polymer Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or related technical discipline
• Minimum 5 years hands-on rubber manufacturing experience, especially injection molding of rubber components
• Strong project management experience in an international, customer-facing environment
• Extensive knowledge of rubber molding technologies and related tooling, compounds, and equipment
• Understanding of strategic sourcing, supplier selection, should-cost analysis, procurement, and basic supply chain management
• Ability to read complex technical drawings, analytical thinking, commercial awareness
• Fluency in English; German language skills required

• Excellent communication
• Proactive and self-driven mindset
• Customer orientation
• Rubber molding technologies (injection, compression, transfer)
• Tooling design
• Compounds and production equipment