Beverage Specialist at Midea

About Midea:

MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME - With this slogan, Midea Group has been committed to enriching households and people's lives through innovative technologies and products for over 50 years. Through continuous development, Midea Group is now a global leading technology group in consumer electronics and air conditioning, robotics, industrial automation and logistics. Every day more than 150,000 employees from over 200 countries develop products and solutions for the world of tomorrow. 

Midea Europe GmbH is a subsidiary of the Midea Group. With products of the brands Toshiba, Midea, Comfee we offer surprising solutions for our customers in Europe. Rapid growth, daily challenges and opportunities motivate our employees to help shape the Midea success story. 

Become part of our team and apply now as:

Beverage Specialist (m/f/d)

Midea Europe GmbH | Stuttgart | fulltime | asap

Your responsibilities:

• Work with Midea product manager(s) to identify unmet consumer needs
• Translate consumer needs into product/technology opportunities 
• Create smart/IoT product specifications
• Work in cross functional and cross-cultural teams to ensure the IoT/smart home features and/or services conform to specifications and meet the performance needs of multiple product categories
• Evaluate new products for market appropriateness and functional performance over wide range of phones/routers
• Create/Manage IoT lab and evaluation needs
• Monitor and participate in appropriate IoT/Smart regulatory and standard setting bodies
• Coordinate with HQ IoT and product divisions to implement new smart innovations into product plan
• Consult on feature development as products transition to market.  Evaluate for specification conformity
• Support other team members in technical specialty as needed

Your profile:

• Five years or more experience in IoT/Smart Home research and product development 
• Minimum Master’s degree in Computer/Software Engineering or related field
• Creative thinker, strong smart innovation skills
• Experience implementing IoT features in a consumer product environment (e.g. iOS and/or Android app development and/or back-end (cloud) software development)
• Good business instincts - identifies opportunities from trends
• Ability to identify and utilize appropriate technology partners to augment skill sets
• Strong influence and advocacy skills
• Experience working with remote product development teams
• Strong facilitation skills. Ability to lead others in innovative thought and processes,  knowledge of innovation processes
• Experience with open innovation and collaboration in an engineering environment
• Solid understanding of consumer product development process and manufacturing
• Goal oriented and self-managed
• Experience with international, cross-cultural teams and interactions

What we offer:

• An international working environment and agile teamwork
• Goal-oriented and collaborative organizational culture
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of mobile working
• Various opportunities for further training and career development
• Employee benefit programs (e.g. subsidized company pension plan, employee discounts)

Contact details:

If you want to become part of Midea’s success story, please upload your CV, cover letter, references and salary expectations. In case of any questions, please contact personal@midea.com.

Midea Europe GmbH
Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 14
65760 Eschborn

Address in Stuttgart:
Liebknechtstr. 35, 70565 Stuttgart

Further information about the company: www.midea-group.com and www.midea.com/de.