Director Product Line (m/f/d)

Join the world leader in advanced energy storage solutions and be part of the success story of VARTA®! At Clarios, we’re powering today, into tomorrow.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Define and own the long-term vision and strategy for the battery product line – 10Y view. Identify emerging trends, technologies, and market shifts to guide innovation and portfolio expansion. Build organizational capabilities in product management, market analysis, and competitive intelligence.
• Portfolio Management: Oversee the full product lifecycle across multiple product families, ensuring alignment with business objectives and market needs. Prioritize product investments and resource allocation based on ROI, market potential, and strategic fit.
• Market & Customer Engagement: Serve as a senior point of contact for key customers, partners, and industry stakeholders. Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and customer briefings to promote thought leadership and product vision.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with R&D, engineering, operations, sales, and marketing to ensure successful product development, launch, and commercialization. Drive alignment across functions to ensure timely delivery, quality, and profitability of the product line.
• Financial & Business Ownership: Own the P&L for the Battery product line across all OEM accounts, including revenue forecasting, pricing strategy, and margin optimization. Develop business cases for new product initiatives and strategic partnerships.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, or related field; MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in product management, business development, or P&L ownership within the automotive, energy storage, or electronics industry.
• Demonstrated success in defining and executing long-term product strategies and managing complex product portfolios.
• Strong financial acumen with experience in revenue forecasting, pricing strategy, ROI analysis, and margin optimization.
• Deep understanding of market trends, customer needs, and emerging technologies in energy storage and power management.
• Excellent communication and executive presence, with experience engaging key customers, partners, and industry stakeholders.
• Track record of strategic thinking and operational execution, with the ability to balance innovation with business performance.
• Global mindset with experience working in multi-region or matrixed organizations preferred.
• English language on a fluent level, German language is nice to have.
• Willingness to travel up to 15% of the working time.

Your Benefits

As a technology leader with strong brands (i.e. VARTA® and OPTIMA®), Clarios notably lives on the creativity, capability and satisfaction of its employees. Therefore, we offer people with drive and power many good reasons to join us:

• Exciting professional tasks and challenges in a diverse international future‑oriented environment with strong commitment to integrity, values, social engagement, and sustainability.
• Flexible working hours model, generous vacation days, mobile work policy and company kindergarten.
• Competitive remuneration package, including additional payments as well as company pension scheme.
• Well‑being support: fitness centre, physiotherapist, modern office environment, healthy canteen, team and company events or hobby clubs.
• Company bike lease.
• Comprehensive onboarding process, buddy program, Learning Academy, LinkedIn Learning and EMEA Mentoring Program.
• Relocation assistance and help finding accommodation where applicable.

About Clarios

Clarios is the global leader in advanced, low‑voltage battery technologies for mobility. Our batteries and smart solutions power nearly every type of vehicle and are found in 1 of 3 cars on the road today. With around 18,000 employees in over 100 countries, we bring deep expertise to our Aftermarket and OEM partners, and reliability, safety and comfort to everyday lives. We are committed to sustainability, ensuring 100 % of our products sold are recyclable and recycling 8,000 batteries an hour.