We are Neumann Kaffee Gruppe. And we love coffee.
For us at Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG), everything revolves around coffee. As a globally active green coffee service group, our more than 3,300 employees in 28 countries work with dedication for and with green coffee, which is always the focus of our services along the entire coffee supply chain. Our fields of work are just as diverse as our employees and we are proud to live this diversity.
Neumann Gruppe GmbH is the Hamburg-based holding company of Neumann Kaffee Gruppe. We coordinate the activities of the group and manage overall developments strategically. We also support the work of the group companies with various functional areas, such as Compliance, Controlling, IT, Legal, Tax, Risk Control, HR, and Communications.
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Managing relationships with customers, suppliers, and partners is a key success factor across NKG's global business. To strengthen and continuously improve these interactions, NKG Digital Operations is building and evolving a portfolio of digital products that support customer engagement, account management, collaboration, and document-driven processes across the group.
To permanently own and grow this value stream, we are looking for an experienced
Product Manager Customer & Commercials (f/m/d)
As Product Manager Customer & Commercials, you are responsible for shaping and driving NKG’s digital solutions for customer, supplier, and partner management. Working closely with business stakeholders and development teams, you define product strategies, deliver measurable business value, and ensure successful adoption across the group.
Your current product portfolio includes:
CRM (Microsoft Dynamics)
Customer Portal
DocuWare (Document Management System)
As the Customer & Commercials value stream evolves, your portfolio will continue to grow and offer exciting opportunities to drive digital transformation across NKG.
Your responsibilities
Own the Customer & Commercials Value Stream: Take end-to-end ownership of the Customer & Commercials product portfolio, including vision, strategy, roadmap, priorities, business value realization, and adoption.
Develop and Drive Product Strategy: Work with stakeholders across NKG companies to understand business challenges, identify opportunities, and translate strategic objectives into product initiatives that deliver measurable business outcomes.
Evolve the Product Portfolio: Continuously improve and expand existing products such as CRM, Customer Portal, and DocuWare based on user feedback, usage insights, and business priorities.
Drive Customer Portal Development: Shape the future of the NKG Customer Portal as a central digital touchpoint for customers by defining priorities, managing requirements, and ensuring delivery of valuable capabilities.
Grow CRM Capabilities Across the Group: Further develop NKG's CRM platform and support the continued rollout across subsidiaries, ensuring alignment with local business needs while maintaining a scalable global product vision.
Improve Document-Centric Processes: Drive the evolution of DocuWare and related business processes to improve efficiency, transparency, compliance, and user experience across customer- and supplier-facing workflows.
Manage Stakeholders: Act as the primary interface between business stakeholders and technical teams. Facilitate alignment, manage expectations, and ensure priorities are clearly communicated and understood.
Own and Prioritize the Backlog: Maintain a transparent and prioritized product backlog, balancing business value, technical improvements, operational stability, and long-term strategic goals.
Drive Adoption and Change: Ensure that products are actively used and deliver measurable value by supporting rollout activities, communication, training, and organizational change initiatives.
Measure Impact and Continuously Improve: Define success metrics, monitor adoption and business outcomes, and use data-driven insights to continuously improve products and processes.
Your profile
Several years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Business Application Management, or a similar role, with a proven track record of managing business-critical digital products.
Strong understanding of customer, commercial, supplier, or business processes and how digital solutions can create measurable business value.
Experience with CRM platforms (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, HubSpot). Knowledge of customer portals, self-service solutions, document management, or workflow automation is a plus.
Solid expertise in modern product management practices, including product strategy, roadmap planning, backlog prioritization, stakeholder management, and product discovery.
Comfortable working in agile environments and skilled at balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across international and cross-functional teams.
Fluent in English and German, Spanish language skills are an advantage.
A degree in Business Informatics, Business Administration, Computer Science, or a related field is beneficial.
Our staff appreciates
Maritime atmosphere:You can expect a modern working environment in a central location with views of the Elbphilharmonie.
Flexible work:Our hybrid work models are characterized by flexible working hours and the option to work remotely.
Development opportunities:Benefit from an annual professional development budget of €2,000 and a wide range of professional and personal training opportunities.
Climate-friendly commuting:We subsidize the HVV ProfiTicket and JobRad.
Additional benefits:We offer an attractive company pension scheme and discounted lunch options.
Come together:Whether at summer parties, Christmas dinners, or in our coffee lounge, a family-like atmosphere and cross-disciplinary exchange are an integral part of our culture.
Have we sparked your interest?
We are pleased to receive your application documents.
Please get in touch with your first point of contact:
Stefanie Buß
Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG) is a globally operating green coffee service group. With our unique cross-cultural network of more than 40 companies in 27 countries we are present in all important coffee production and consuming markets around the globe, offering a broad range of services and products along the green coffee value chain. As a privately owned and run enterprise rooted in Hamburg, NKG’s business activities are geared towards creating long-term profitability and responsible business conduct.
NKG’s diversified business model offers plenty of interesting job opportunities: Our core business encompasses trade and distribution of commercial grade coffees, specialty coffees, certified sustainable coffees and soluble products. We are active in the business fields of coffee farming, farm management, preparation, exporting, importing, logistics, warehousing and quality control. Market information, consulting and development projects as well as coffee commercial education form another pillar of our activity. We constantly aim to be the first mover in all our markets, where we continuously develop new fields of activity.
NKG employs over 3,300 highly skilled permanent staff and numerous seasonal laborers, many of whom return year after year. The rich variety of nationalities and cultures makes us unique and allows us to expand our perspectives. As a learning company, we put people first, foster entrepreneurial spirit and encourage cooperation and ongoing education. Our employees share our enthusiasm for coffee and use their energy and inspiration to bring the pleasure of this modern, invigorating product to the world.
Join our unparalleled international team of coffee professionals and shape your own success by becoming part of our global network!
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