The teams in Purchasing & Product Management ensure that our product lineup leaves nothing to be desired. With over 20,000 products, an incredible variety of items, and the individual needs of our customers, this is a real challenge. Do you want to play a key role in shaping HSE’s product world with your ideas?
HSE is one of Europe’s leading live-commerce providers. Whether through its three TV channels, the online store, the award-winning HSE app, or social commerce channels—HSE’s customers decide when and where they want to shop. HSE stands for the most entertaining form of shopping and delights 1.2 million active customers who appreciate its curated selection of fashion, jewelry, beauty, wellness, household goods, and home & living products.
Through its three TV channels (HSE, HSE Extra, and HSE Trend), the company reaches 45 million households in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Approximately 800 employees ensure a shopping experience that is both inspiring and customer-focused. Through its business partners, HSE also creates over 1,700 additional jobs in the areas of logistics, call centers, and tech development.
HSE has received numerous awards for its outstanding service quality. Since 2012, the company has been majority-owned by the investment firm Providence Equity Partners.
For more information, visit corporate.hse.com and www.hse.com.
Sound good? Then welcome to the team as
Brand and Merchandise Manager (m/f/d) Lingerie
*Gender doesn’t matter—the main thing is that you’re a good fit for us!
Here are your benefits:
- 30 days of vacation
- Flexible work hours
- Option to work remotely
- Shopping gift card: 50 € or, alternatively, an EGYM Wellpass plus your share of the cost
- Childcare allowance
- "Feeling Good" health and fitness program
- Opportunities for continuing education
- Bonus based on company performance
- 30% employee discount
- Corporate Benefits
- On-campus cafeteria and cafeteria subsidy
- Company pension plan
- Accident insurance
- Summer party and Christmas party
Here’s what you can expect:
- You’ll develop creative and customer-focused product and assortment ideas for our lingerie division and actively shape the further development of our brands, collections, and themed worlds.
- You’ll plan and manage the product line and product strategy and ensure an attractive and strategically appropriate mix of merchandise and brand groups.
- You’ll monitor the market, competition, and current trends in lingerie, fit, materials, comfort, and customer needs, and translate relevant trends into concrete product ideas and assortment concepts.
- You’ll turn ideas into tangible product visions and create compelling briefings—both visual and written—that clearly guide suppliers, creators, and internal partners through the product development process.
- You’ll work closely with our suppliers, manage product development, independently select suitable partners, and conduct price and terms negotiations through to the final order placement.
- You ensure that our products are available to our customers at the right time, in the appropriate quality, and with a compelling price-performance ratio.
- You combine creative standards with financial responsibility, manage budgets and relevant KPIs, and provide technical leadership within the team while coordinating closely with internal stakeholders and creators.
What you bring to the table:
- You have a degree in a related field, relevant vocational training, or a comparable educational background, and you bring solid experience in product management, purchasing, or assortment management.
- You have a keen sense of customer needs, fit, materials, quality, and relevant trends, and can use this to develop attractive and marketable product ideas.
- You think creatively and conceptually and can communicate your product ideas persuasively both visually and verbally.
- You enjoy developing product visions and translating them into clear, inspiring briefings for suppliers and internal partners.
- You collaborate with suppliers in a spirit of partnership while maintaining strong negotiating skills, and you know how to balance quality, function, comfort, price, and cost-effectiveness.
- You work proactively, analytically, and strategically; you think entrepreneurially and approach change with an open mind and flexibility.
- You impress with your strong communication skills and assertiveness, and you communicate confidently in German and fluently in English.
