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You enjoy creating and innovating. You never stop striving for better. You take responsibility and you get results. You love being part of a team. Above all, you want your work to matter: Welcome to our world! At Sonova we create sense by bringing sound to life. Our innovative hearing solutions help millions of people enjoy life’s unforgettable moments.

We offer exceptional career opportunities through market-leading brands from consumer to medical, and a culture where you can quickly belong and perform at your best.

If you want the freedom to explore, opportunities to grow, and make positive change on people lives through your work, this is the place for you.

Join Sonova. Create sense.

Wedemark, Germany

Senior Product Manager

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As a key player in our team, you will develop a consumer-centric, innovative, and competitive product portfolio for Bluetooth Headbands at Sennheiser. You will coordinate a cross-functional and agile team, driving Sonova’s Consumer Hearing business growth. The product portfolio is extensive and the business environment is highly dynamic, characterized by a competitive landscape, rapid technological advancements, product form innovation, sustainability requirements, and evolving consumer needs. Your scope will include hardware, software, and contributions to the full ecosystem to create an exceptional user experience (apps, website, etc.).

You will manage the product lifecycle to optimize sales and profitability, capturing early market feedback and implementing changes to accelerate sustainable growth.

 

Your tasks:

  • Own and drive Blue Tooth Headband portfolio innovation mid and long term
  • Deeply care about product in market success, monitoring performance and suggesting improvements if needed
  • Identify meaningful consumer insights through consumer research and deep consumer understanding
  • Proactively seek opportunities from adjacent industries / products to build out offering, to maximize category growth
  • Actively monitor competition and feedback to influence strategy
  • Continuously collect, interpret and react to market feedback and ensure agile and effective implementation of changes
  • Act as main point of contact for Blue Tooth Headband and provide input and guidance where needed and in due time
  • Collaborate closely with R&D, Sales, Marketing and Operations to deliver meaningful and reliable innovation to market
  • Collaborate with focus markets to orchestrate go to market plans 
  • Attention to details and customer experience 
  • Attention to costs to drive profit
  • Be the ambassador of Blue Tooth Headband category internally and externally if required (retailers, journalists)
  • Contribute to category strategy definition by providing input on “Where to play / How to win” as well as on market drivers & innovation roadmap

 

Your profile:

  • Technical, Business or Marketing Degree
  • Minimum of 10 years’ experience in International / Global Product Management with a focus on new product development 
  • Expertise in product management/development 
  • Expertise of establishing new categories, new segments
  • Proven agility in adapting to new cultural background or new processes
  • Experience in building and launching products connected to a digital ecosystem
  • Combination of strong technical background and business acumen, with an entrepreneurial mindset
  • Experience of working closely & crossfunctionally with R&D, Sales and Operations teams
  • Ability to inspire, engage and enable cross functions teams
  • Self driven, autonomous
  • High sense of accountability & responsibility
  • Innovative thinker with a creative mind
  • Team player
  • Fuent English skills

 

We can offer you a new challenge, with interesting tasks and much more – including an open corporate culture, flat hierarchies, support for further training and development, opportunities to take on responsibility, an excellent range of foods, sports and cultural facilities, attractive employment conditions, and flexible working time models in various roles. 

 
Agnieszka Baka, Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, is looking forward to receiving your complete application via our online job application platform.
For this vacancy only direct applications in English will be considered.

The Sennheiser brand

The Sennheiser brand stands for premium quality in the field of audio products. 
At Sonova Consumer Hearing, we develop and offer consumer devices such as headphones, soundbars and speech-enhanced hearables under the brand license of Sennheiser.

The business is headquartered in Wedemark, Germany, and has approximately 650 employees worldwide. To continue to be among the best in the industry, we are always on the lookout for outstanding talent.