Working Student Innovation Management (m/f/d)

Would you like to work in a dynamic environment? In a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks, creative freedom, and an international team? Do you share our values of respect, commitment, and sustainability?
 

Then you've come to the right place!
 As part of the Group Innovation Team, you will support us in developing innovative and sustainable hygiene products and digital solutions for new markets and target groups – and in making our ideas visible and tangible.

We look forward to receiving your application!
Location: Düsseldorf
Department: Group Innovation – Innovation Department
Working hours: up to 20 hours/week
Start: Immediately or by agreement

• Support the development of customer-centric product and service ideas along the early innovation process.

• Design and execute customer validations (e.g. interviews, surveys, experiments, rapid tests) to test desirability and acceptance.

• Translate customer insights into clear hypotheses, opportunity areas and concept improvements.

• Build simple digital or physical prototypes to make ideas tangible and testable.

• Conduct structured research on consumer behaviour, market trends and usage contexts.

• Document learnings and help build an insight-driven idea backlog for future ideation sprints.

• Actively contribute to an open, experimental innovation culture within the WEPA Group.

Qualifications:

• Enrolled in a Bachelor's or Master's program in Psychology, Design, Engineering, Business, Social Sciences or a comparable field with a strong interest in users and customers

Knowledge & Experience:

• First experience or strong interest in user research, customer interviews, surveys or experiments

• Ability to structure insights and derive implications for product or service ideas

• Experience with prototyping, visualization, research tools or data analysis is a plus

• Curiosity for sustainability, circular products and consumer decision-making

Working:

• Structured, analytical and hands-on, while being comfortable working with hypotheses and imperfect data

• You enjoy testing ideas early, learning fast and iterating based on feedback

• Independent but team-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership

Personality:

• Curious about people, behaviour and real customer needs

• Open-minded, reflective and willing to challenge assumptions

• Motivated to create impact beyond concepts and slides

Language: Fluent in English, German is a plus

• Attractive remuneration: You will be paid in accordance with the collective agreement, which provides for an attractive basic salary as well as vacation and Christmas bonuses.
• Flexible and mobile working: We offer you flexible working (time) models to enable the right balance between mobile working and office presence.
• Company pension scheme and lifetime working time account: We support you with a company pension scheme as well as a lifetime working time account, enabling various models of individual life planning, e.g. early retirement or a sabbatical.
• WEPA Academy: With our holistic training concept we identify and facilitate personal career and development opportunities. Qualified and committed employees are and remain the most important success factor for WEPA.
• Sustainable personnel policy: A low fluctuation rate and long periods of employment characterise working at WEPA.
• Health & Wellbeing: You can expect a wide range of health activities, cooperation with various fitness studios and the external employee support programme OTHEB.

The benefits shown may vary slightly depending on the position and location.