Location:
Garching - Bavaria, Germany - Parking 1-5 Business Campus
Job Family:
Product Management
Worker Type Reference:
Regular - Permanent
Pay Rate Type:
Salary
Career Level:
E1
Job ID:
R-47614-2025

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Divisional Head of Product and Innovation Management for Automotive, you will lead a globally positioned team to shape a resilient, user-centric, and strategically aligned product portfolio. You will drive the development and execution of a unified portfolio management framework—consolidating business unit portfolios into a cohesive roadmap that supports long-term growth, diversification, and customer relevance. This role owns the product and innovation management processes across the division, ensuring excellence in tools, methods, and governance. You will collaborate across strategy, product, and innovation teams to accelerate market-winning concepts into sales-ready offerings, while continuously aligning product strategies with evolving market needs and business objectives. With cross-product experiences, value propositions, and system-level integration, you will amplify our product attractiveness and support go-to-market.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Ensure effective portfolio governance consolidating the business unit product lineups into a resilient, industry leading, and user-centric portfolio coherent to our company strategy. Define and monitor relevant KPIs and control measures to achieve set business goals.
• Champion a culture of entrepreneurial thinking, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration and foster a high-performing product organization with state-of-the-art product management methods and best practices.
• Translate market insights and technology trends into winning, transformative product opportunities outside existing businesses. Ensure responsiveness to emerging market trends and technological shifts.
• Synchronize innovation and portfolio development with long-term strategic goals. Accelerate transformative innovation and time to market with technology scouting and industry and research partnerships. Foster an innovative culture with leading methods and close collaboration with our business units and your peers in strategy, design, and research.
• Ensure coherence and system-level integration across our in-cabin product portfolio by owning and orchestrating cross-product synergies in user experience, value proposition, and technical design. Oversee pre-production car integration, product validation, and the creation of compelling product demonstrators.