Team Lead Digital and Workflow Management

Heidelberg Engineering GmbH • Heidelberg

Heidelberg

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Your responsibilities

Key Tasks

Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Managers responsible for Digital & Workflow solutions.
Define and communicate the strategic vision and portfolio roadmap for Heidelberg Engineering's Digital & Workflow product area.
Ensure alignment of individual product roadmaps with the company's overall business and technology strategy.
Establish portfolio priorities based on customer value, market opportunities, technical feasibility, regulatory requirements, and business objectives.
Drive cross-product coordination and portfolio optimization across software platforms, digital services, AI-enabled solutions, cloud offerings, and clinical workflows.
Ensure consistent product management processes, governance, and best practices across the team.
Foster close collaboration between Product Management, R&D, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Clinical Affairs, Service, IT, Marketing, Sales, the MedTech organisation and Executive Management.
Support Product Managers in defining product requirements, business cases, lifecycle strategies, and go-to-market planning.
Monitor market trends, customer needs, competitive developments, and emerging technologies to shape future portfolio direction.
Drive strategic partnerships and ecosystem initiatives that strengthen Heidelberg Engineering's digital offering.
Represent the Digital & Workflow portfolio with key customers, partners, management, and external stakeholders.
Manage portfolio risks, dependencies, resource priorities, and strategic investment decisions.
Develop talent within the Product Management organization through coaching, mentoring, performance management, and succession planning.
Promote a customer-centric, data-driven, and collaborative product culture

Line Authorities
Direct disciplinary responsibility for Product Managers within the Digital & Workflow Product Management team.

Decision-Making Authorities

Prioritize product portfolio investments and roadmap alignment within the Digital & Workflow area, in close alignment with overall product roadmap.
Allocate Product Management resources across initiatives and strategic priorities.
Approve portfolio priorities and product management deliverables within delegated authority.
Escalate strategic investment decisions and major portfolio trade-offs to senior management where required

Your profile

Professional Experience and Expertise

Degree in science, engineering, technology, business, or a comparable field.
At least eight years of experience in Product Management or a similar relevant role, preferably in medical devices, healthcare software, digital health, or enterprise software.
Several years of leadership experience, direct or laterally, managing Product Managers or cross-functional product organizations.
Proven experience developing and executing portfolio strategies across multiple products and technology platforms.
Strong understanding of healthcare IT, digital health, clinical workflows, interoperability, cloud technologies, AI-enabled solutions, cybersecurity, and software lifecycle management.
Experience balancing innovation initiatives with lifecycle management of established products.
Demonstrated success in leading cross-functional strategic initiatives involving R&D, Commercial, Regulatory, Quality, and Service organizations.
Strong business acumen with experience developing business cases, portfolio prioritization, and product investment decisions.
Excellent communication, presentation, and executive stakeholder management skills.
Excellent English communication skills; German language skills are beneficial

Personal Skills

Inspiring and collaborative leadership style with a strong coaching mindset.
Excellent people management and talent development capabilities.
Strong strategic and systems-thinking abilities.
Ability to make well-balanced decisions in complex, rapidly changing environments.
Outstanding stakeholder management and influencing skills across all organizational levels.
Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving capabilities.
Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong customer and market orientation.
Ability to balance long-term strategic direction with operational execution.
High level of initiative, accountability, and ownership.
Strong interest in medical technology, digital health, AI, and the future of ophthalmic clinical workflows

We offer

13 monthly salaries
A very open work environment and a culture where colleagues address each other informally
Flexible work hours based on trust
145-day quota model
Reimbursement for working from home—€1 per day
30 days of vacation
€250 budget for home office equipment (after passing the probationary period)
Company pension plan
Group accident insurance
5 paid days off when a child is sick
Bike leasing—for personal use
Perks: Corporate fitness memberships for Pfizenmaier, Venice Beach, Fit Base, and Urban Sports Club
DE Ticket
A wide range of discounts through Corporate Benefits
Opportunities for continuing education and professional development, as well as a digital learning platform
Gifts for company anniversaries

It's that easy to apply!

Step 1: Your online application
Simply click on “Apply” and fill out the short application from. This only takes less than three minutes and can also be done on your mobile phone.
Step 2: First Interview
We will get back to you as soon as possible. If there is a fit, we will invite you to a first online interview.
Step 3: In-person interview
If the first meeting went well, we will invite you to another meeting in the office.
Step 4: It's a match? Welcome to Heidelberg Engineering!
You get all documents and information you need for your start and onboarding. We look forward to having you in our Team soon!

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Our benefits

Employee jubilees:

To show our appreciation, we reward our longstanding employees for company anniversaries and retirements.

Bike leasing:

Whether e-bike or city bike – we offer a bike leasing opportunity to support the health of our employees and to contribute to CO2 neutrality.

Company pension scheme:

We support you in your retirement plans so that you can look forward to the future.

Employee events:

Summer and Winter events, team events or simple after-work get-togethers contribute to a supportive and collaborative culture.

Family business:

Our corporate culture can be described as international environment with a family-like working atmosphere in which you can contribute with your individual skills.

Feedback interviews:

We consider a constructive, reciprocal, and continuous feedback culture as essential for your further development and career planning.

Healthy snacks and hydration:

A weekly delivery of fresh fruits, as well as free water, tea and coffee on site provide you with a good start into the day and boost your energy.

Job ticket:

We support you with our subsidized job/Germany ticket and thereby promote an ecological alternative.

Mobile working:

We offer mobile working options for a better work-life integration and flexibility.

Modern work conditions:

We offer flexible working hours on a trust basis, 30 days of annual leave (based on a 5-day week) and additional leave days for special occasions.

Onboarding process:

Heidelberg Engineering provides you with an individual training plan for your successful onboarding.

Parking opportunities:

Whether by bike, scooter or car – we offer opportunities for parking spaces as well as a separate room to store your bike.

Stay fit:

You can join Pfitzenmeier, Venice Beach, FitBase and Urban Sports Club with our fitness subsidy. With a wide range of gyms, classes and locations, there are plenty of opportunities for you to enjoy.

Top location:

Our attractive location in Heidelberg with direct access to the freeway, public transport and Heidelberg's main railway station make your journey both faster and less complicated.

Training and development opportunities:

Lifelong learning and continuous professional development are among the success factors in the dynamic environment in which we operate. That's why we offer a digital learning platform to expand your professional, social, methodological, and personal skillset.

Corporate Benefits:

Via our free access to our own Corporate Benefits platform we provide several discount codes for our employees with over 800 different brands in various categories such as travelling, fashion, technology, food, mobility, finance, leisure activities and many more.

Do you have any questions?

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