PRODUCT MANAGER COMPONENTS

Discover a world of perspectives and drive our company´s growth.

VON ARDENNE invites you to set with us new industry standards. Join us as our new product manager!

YOUR TASK - Share Responsibility and lead innovation

• Lead indirectly a cross-disciplinary international team
• You are the technical ear at the customer, the listener who captures, evaluates, reflects, and appropriately channels customer preferences into the company as clearly as possible.
• Accompanying and managing product development is the core task, whether within the framework of the product lifecycle or in new developments .
• You question economic viability and decide accordingly which steps should be taken and which not.
• Strategic market observation, benchmarking, as well as innovation management are important parts of your task.
• You are also the proactive internal interface to departments such as R&D, Engineering, Sales, and Service, to ultimately turn customer ideas and impulses into real innovations.
• Achieving customer satisfaction and strengthening customer loyalty is our common task.
• You´ll be at the forefront of innovation, stand in the spotlights and you´ll like it.

YOUR PROFILE – Bring your Expertise and passion

• Degree in Physics, Electrical Engineering or Mechatronics or comparable field
• Several years of experience in the mechanical field at a cutting-edge level
• Experience in the vacuum coating environment is a big plus
• Background in application or product management or expertise in technical sales / field application engineering (FAE ) with the mentioned background is very interesting for us
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset , i.e., you also look at topics from an economic/business perspective (business thinking)
• Experience in indirect leadership or leadership skills are required
• You are a listener, and you want to understand customer preferences and to transfer them internally as closely as possible "1:1".
• You like to act in an interface function and be the first point of contact for the customers of the project, right?
• Strong communication skills at all levels, proactivity, and networking qualities complete your profile.
• Absolute customer- and solution orientation is a must.
• PLEASE: English and German at conversational level are mandatory.
• openness to travel up to a maximum of 30%, possibly also in blocks
• main location is Dresden
• A family-run international high-tech company with speed in decisions and ideas is exactly the playground you are looking for, right?

COMPANY PROFILE – We recognize our responsibility.

• family-owned and owner-managed mechanical engineering company with HQ in Dresden, Germany
• one of the world’s pioneers of vacuum coating systems for decades
• Leading provider of high-tech vacuum coating systems for glass, wafers, and plastic films
• world market leader in plant engineering for large-area architectural glass coating and thin-film photovoltaics
• enable customers to scale them up for volume production worldwide
• sustainable growth with a commitment to social and ecological responsibility
• ecologically and economically sustainable products and solutions
• 7 locations worldwide and serving in 50 countries
• global workforce of around 1,300 employees