Head of Department (m/f/d) Product Management (Brand & Private Label) (Product Manager)

CHAMPAGNE FOR EVERYONE. That is our goal. Offering great products at affordable prices helps people afford a good life. Simple!

TSI is one of those family businesses that will always have a future, because at TSI, everything revolves around the customer: food retail and wholesale worldwide. Our products are high-quality food items. Our customers value our service. We are specialists in food and have been growing continuously for years in a dynamic market environment. You can find our diverse products on the shelves of many well-known retail chains.

To strengthen our team, we are looking for a Head of Department (m/f/d) Product Management (Brand & Private Label).

Your tasks:

• Strategic leadership and further development of the product management teams for brand and private label.
• Active design and further development of assortments in all six product groups – differentiated by sales channel and market.
• Systematic expansion of market, competitive, and trend competence to unlock new growth potential.
• Entrepreneurial overall responsibility for the portfolio throughout the entire product life cycle.
• Management of economic performance with a clear focus on turnover, contribution margin, and sustainable margin quality.
• Strategic prioritization and stringent management of all development projects and product implementations across both business models.
• Responsibility for sound business cases and decisive new product decisions.
• Active participation in tenders and central customer inquiries from a product perspective.
• Ensuring regulatory excellence and consistent implementation of customer-specific requirements in all sales markets.
• Further development of clear, efficient, and scalable development and decision-making processes.
• Controlling interface function between sales, purchasing, supply chain, quality management, and external partners.
• Standardization and professionalization of product development processes as a basis for sustainable growth.
• Building high-performance teams through clear goal setting, performance management, and targeted development.
• Sustainable reduction of time-to-market through structured process optimization.
• Responsibility for the strategic quality and governance of product master data, specifications, and declarations.

Your profile:

• Completed university degree, preferably with a Master's degree, in the field of product management, business studies, Business Administration, marketing, or a comparable course of study.
• Relevant and demonstrable professional experience in food product management.
• Several years of leadership experience with personnel responsibility for a team of at least two employees.
• Sound industry knowledge of the German market.
• Willingness to travel.
• Very good English skills.

We offer you:

• A successful and dynamic team.
• An attractive salary with additional performance-related compensation.
• A company car.
• A crisis-proof job in the consumer goods industry.
• Structured onboarding and many development opportunities based on your personal interests.
• Cool idea competitions with prizes.
• Regular company and team events.
• Independent work and plenty of variety.
• Free drinks, coffee, and fruit.
• Employee benefits: Corporate Benefits and a 25% discount on TS products.

We look forward to receiving your meaningful application documents, including your salary expectations and your earliest possible starting date. Please send these exclusively by e-mail in PDF format to jobs@tsi.de (https://mailto:[jobs@tsi.de](mailto:jobs@tsi.de)) addressed to Larissa Leipold or Elena Dmitriev. You can also use our application form on our homepage.

Additional information: Requirements for the applicant: Expertise: Betriebswirtschaftslehre Mandatory: Produktmanagement, Lebensmittel, Gruppen-, Teamleitung