Some of your Benefitsarrow_right Vacation Vacation: We offer time off to refresh and recharge. Health Insurance Health Insurance: Rely on comprehensive services whenever you need it. Performance Related Bonus Performance Related Bonus: When you have an impact, you can reap the rewards. Personal Development Personal Development: We offer a variety of trainings to ensure you can develop in your career. Education Reimbursement Education Reimbursement: Receive financial aid to help propel your career to the next level. You support our team as Responsibilitiesarrow_right Sustaining engineering of the existing product program through self-driven initiation and coordination of optimization measures, continuous further development and improvement measures (cockpit), identification of cost reduction potential through the preparation of value analyses as well as the coordination of their implementation (VA/VE). Provision of technical data for marketing documents, independent initiation and provision of product-relevant certificates and test reports (fire protection, certificates of conformity, RoHS and REACH declarations, etc.), as well as necessary external test certificates, etc. Regional monitoring and execution of worldwide uniform product specifications for Global Core Range products in cooperation with the Global Technical Product Managers Initiation and management of product innovations, including the responsible definition of development specifications for new products and product enhancements, management of project teams within the framework of our APQP process up to the market launch, contribution of special technical and product knowhow to the development of technical solutions, coordination and independent assessment of product developments on the basis of measurement results, including the selection of suitable, usually complex measurement, analysis and evaluation procedures Responsible technical support of internal functions (production, purchasing, controlling, sales and quality control, etc.) for difficult product-related technical issues, including complicated damage analyses, e.g. in the case of complaints, independent product assessments and product releases, as well as technical review of product cost calculations. This includes the independent processing and answering of difficult product-related technical customer inquiries, occasionally also on-site in the field within the region Supporting the market segments in defining product policy and positioning through product-specific expertise, through systematic analysis of the own product range in comparison with strategic competitors (benchmark) and of market trends and new technologies. Product roadmaps are to be defined in order to exploit synergies across the market segments and to balance out the different requirements of the market segments. Monitor the national and international industry standards and guidelines relevant for the region and the assigned product groups and drive them regionally by active participation in various national/regional associations and standardization bodies as well as regional subsidiaries of international associations and standardization bodies. All these activities should be in close collaboration with the Regional Director, Market Segment Managers and Global Technical Product Managers Development and transfer of special expertise within regional conferences, internal and external trainings as well as (customer) seminars in the region, and knowledge transfer within FFT Review and monitoring of external patents and patent applications in cooperation the Global Technical Product Managers, the Regional Director and with the F&Co patent department and initiation of appropriate measures incl. deadline monitoring Other tasks arranged by supervisors Qualificationsarrow_right Master's degree from a university in chemical / process engineering, mechanical engineering or alike 3-5 years new product development experience; Experience for managing product application and new product development in one segment; Filtration experience will be preferred Excellent user knowledge of MS Office products, Auto CAD & SolidWorks Good communication skills and logical thinking ability Have the ability of conflict management and response Good ability to analyze and solve problems Fluency both in written and oral English, with good knowledge of PC application software The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.