Controller Products and Customer Projects f/m/d
Our common goal
As a Controller for Products and Customer Projects, you will serve as a key business partner for the Products division as well as for our Sales organization. You analyse financial performance, provide decision-relevant insights, and work closely with Product Management and Sales to assess business cases, support pricing, and prepare project quotations. As a financial sparring partner to our Sales and Project teams, you help drive the commercial success of customer projects by evaluating profitability, identifying financial risks, and ensuring compliance with internal policies. You will be part of the Operations & Products Controlling team and collaborate closely with colleagues across Products and international Sales.
What you can expect
- Create and continuously improve Product Management reporting (e.g. KPIs, sales and margin analysis, project portfolio tracking) and Power BI reporting landscape
- Support Product Management in preparing, evaluating, and reviewing business cases
- Prepare budgets and forecasts, and conduct regular performance reviews with cost center managers across the Products organization
- Assist the Pricing Manager with annual price adjustment and other pricing-related activities
- Support project teams in preparing project calculations, assessing risks and creating customer quotations in compliance with our company policies
- Provide decision-relevant information for customer projects and actively contribute to the decision-making during regular Project Steering Committee meetings
- Maintain and further develop tools and processes for project calculations
- Conduct ad-hoc analyses and derive actionable insights to support management in strategic decisions
How you can convince
- Degree in Business Administration, Economics, or a comparable qualification
- 2-5 years of professional experience in a similar role
- Strong analytical skills, methodological expertise, and a structured way of working
- Excellent communication skills, assertiveness and the ability to provide fact-based guidance for decision-making
- Solid experience with ERP systems (preferably SAP SD, FI, MM) and BI tools (ideally Power BI, XLCubed)
- Strong ambition and interest in long-term development and career growth within the company
- Fluent in both German and English, spoken and written
Enjoy working at Vitra
- We offer a dynamic, creative, and innovative environment and pursue a sustainable corporate strategy
- Office design is our specialty - our work environment offers space for creativity including areas for focus time
- Experience our inspiring campus in Weil am Rhein with unique cultural offerings and a dedicated employee garden
- Welcome to Vitra - our orientation and welcome program
- We promote lifelong learning through our internal academy and target group-oriented talent management programs
- "How to work better" - our concept for the hybrid working world - enables mobile working in different facets
- Extended maternity leave
- Attractive pension funds
- Choose an additional, individual benefit - in the area of fitness offers, the job ticket, a subsidy for our canteen or childcare
- Benefit from attractive discounts on products from Vitra and Artek
Do you still have doubts?
You do not bring all the qualifications listed?
Don't be discouraged: We are convinced that with an eager-to-learn, open-minded attitude, mountains can be moved.
So, apply anyway and show us why you are the right person for this position.
We are committed to promoting equal opportunities and living diversity. Your personality and expertise are the only factors that determine your suitability.
Please note that we cannot accept applications via E-mail but kindly ask you to send it via our job portal. If you have any questions, Alexia Wanner, Alexia.Wanner@vitra.com, will be happy to support.