CareerPlan

Leitung Innovation & Entwicklung / Smart Products (m/w/d)

city center Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DEFull-time2026-10-21 → 2026-11-10

Core

Building a new independent Innovation and Smart Product department to add intelligent, sensor-based, and digital value functions to an existing portfolio of industrial components and system solutions.

Role type

Senior IC Product Innovation Lead (Smart Products)

Builds

Smart product features, digital services, and sensor-based solutions for industrial applications

Domain

Industrial manufacturing, IoT, sensor technology, digital services

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Product roadmap development, innovation project management, sensor technology, embedded systems, industrial manufacturing processes, solution architecture, stakeholder management

Preferred skills

Entrepreneurial mindset, leadership potential, travel readiness

Technologies

Sensors, IoT, digital services, industrial automation

Responsibilities

Develop a Smart Product roadmap, identify digital and sensor-based product functions, steer innovation projects from feasibility to series readiness, establish development and testing structures, collaborate with internal teams and external partners

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership potential