Europe
If you’re passionate about product management and eager to drive strategic product development on an international stage, Teknos could be your next career move!
As Product Manager you will be taking ownership of managing and executing the delivery and maintenance of a sustainable and profitable product portfolio that meets Teknos' customer demands. You will be in charge of Product Life Cycle Management and Assortment Management across selected product categories for our Infra & Energy customer segment globally.
This role is a part of a global Product Portfolio Development team and may be placed in Poland, Germany or Finland, with regular visits to our offices in Warsaw, Gdynia, Alzenau, Brüggen, Helsinki, or Rajamäki. We offer a flexible hybrid work model to best support work-life balance. The role will include quarterly travelling within Europe to visit production sites and customers.
The most important tasks and responsibilities:
- Ensuring the product portfolio in owned product category is in compliance with regulations in each market.
- Driving the NPD and NPL projects from idea to product launch across functions and countries.
- Managing all aspects of in-life products, including product positioning, USPs, price strategy and customer feedback, requirements, and issues.
- Coordinating creation and maintenance of product information content.
- Quarterly follow up on owned product categories and ramp down execution of cancelled products.
- Overseeing all lab task, except NPD
- Coordination of private label business, including product portfolio, labels and packaging
- Responsibility for country specific assortment
- Acting as the assortment Manager for 3rd party products and the lifecycle of your responsible product category.
- Supporting the commercial organisation at customer visits and events to better understand the product needs
Key skills and qualifications:
- Several years of experience in a similar role related to product management within business to industry field
- Experience with industrial products is essential while some paint, coatings or related chemical business knowledge would be a significant advantage
- Structured and analytical approach to problem-solving combined with exceptional multitasking abilities
- Experience in leading projects and professional project knowhow
- Very good IT skills − ERP system (IFS), CRM systems (Microsoft Dynamics), Microsoft Office (especially Excel)
- Fluent English is mandatory as well as the local language (German, Polish or Finnish – depending on the location)
Join us and grow into the best version of yourself!
We're seeking bold visionaries driven to make a lasting impact — for our company, for future generations, and for the planet. Embrace change, spark innovation, and make things happen.
Together, we’ll shape the future of the paint and coatings industry while playing a key role in building a sustainable world. If you share our values of creativity, persistence, and fairness, and you’re ready to make the world last longer, this is your place!
Could this be the next step in your career?
Interested? To apply, please send your CV and cover letter via our application system by the 21.9.2025.
What we offer:
- A family working culture
We are a company known for an open and unique family working culture, where management is easy to approach, employees’ ideas are listened to, and everyone’s contribution is valued. Our people often highlight their supportive colleagues as the best things in their jobs. - Outstanding solutions and focus on innovations
Innovating has always been at the heart of our business, driving business development and shaping our mindset. From the very first industry-leading product launched in 1948 to exciting new market opportunities such as barrier coatings for the packaging industry and biobased solutions, we are determined to solve any coating challenge ahead. - Career in a global, expanding company
Our ambitious growth targets provide unique opportunities to grow and develop your career in a global, multicultural company, where we all share the same values of persistent, creative, and fair. - Sustainability and meaningful work
Our mission is to make the world last longer, and sustainability is a cornerstone of our strategy. We hope that enhancing this mission in everyday work makes work more meaningful to our employees on all levels.
We make the world last longer
About Teknos
Teknos is a global coatings company with operations in more than 20 countries in Europe and Asia, employing approximately 1,500 people. We are one of the leading suppliers of industrial coatings with a strong position in architectural and retail coatings. The company was established in 1948 and is one of Finland’s largest family-owned businesses. Teknos wants to make the world last longer by providing smart, technically advanced paint and coating solutions to protect and prolong. Always working in close cooperation with our customers and firmly believing that the company’s personnel are vital to its success, Teknos has created a corporate culture that is derived from family values, where each employee is heard and encouraged to take the initiative. Our goal is to make use of the great potential of our excellent personnel in order to create new solutions for our customers.
