Product and Partner Manager – Automation, Full-time

KION Group

. As an integral member of the EMEA Product Management Automation team, you actively shape the development of our automation portfolio.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeHamburg • 🇩🇪 GermanyMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

As an integral member of the EMEA Product Management Automation team, you actively shape the development of our automation portfolio.
You take responsibility for defining, advancing and lifecycle-managing automation products for the EMEA region.
You identify, evaluate and onboard technology partners and ensure the integration of their solutions into our automation ecosystem and product portfolio.
You develop product requirements, specifications and documentation for both internal and partner-based solutions and prepare them in a structured format.
You create and maintain business cases to support informed investment decisions and strategic prioritization.
You are responsible for building and continuously evolving market and product roadmaps — including the integration of partner technologies and the identification of synergies and portfolio gaps.
You regularly conduct market, competitive and use-case analyses to understand trends, customer requirements and competitor activities and to derive concrete measures.
You also actively manage the existing product portfolio, for example in terms of lifecycle management, value proposition, pricing input and commercial positioning.
You ensure close alignment with other regions (e.g., APAC and Americas) as well as with Global Product Management.
With your product expertise you support regional sales teams and strengthen them with clear value propositions, scalable solution concepts and a compelling competitive positioning.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You hold a degree in business administration, engineering, computer science or a comparable field of study.
You have several years of professional experience in B2B product management, ideally in automation, intralogistics or material handling solutions.
You possess solid knowledge of automation technologies — for example fleet control software, WCS, WES, WMS, as well as AGVs/AMRs or fixed automation solutions — and have experience in automation project environments.
You have a strong market and customer orientation and are able to derive concrete product requirements from this.
Your working style is structured, analytical and goal-oriented, combined with a high degree of personal responsibility.
You bring strong communication skills and enjoy collaborating in cross-functional and international teams.
You use very good written and spoken English confidently in your daily work; Chinese language skills are an advantage.
You are willing to travel within the EMEA region and to China.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Attractive compensation package: remuneration according to the metal industry collective agreement with special payments (holiday & Christmas bonuses etc.), a performance-related annual bonus and employer-funded occupational pension scheme.
Flexible arrangements: individual scheduling of your working hours and the option to work remotely from home depending on the role, as well as a contractual entitlement to 30 days’ paid vacation plus additional time-off days through a flexible working time account.
Exciting future prospects: a broad range of personnel development measures with diverse career opportunities.
Our basics: bike leasing offer, subsidy for the Deutschlandticket (public transport pass), access to LinkedIn Learning, Employee Assistance Program, modern IT equipment, parking spaces, company cafeteria, and employee discounts with external providers.

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Hard Skills & Tools

B2B product managementautomation technologiesfleet control softwareWCSWESWMSAGVsAMRsfixed automation solutionsautomation project environments

Soft Skills

structured working styleanalytical thinkinggoal-orientedpersonal responsibilitystrong communication skillscollaborationcross-functional teamworkinternational teamworkmarket orientationcustomer orientation