Group Manager Product Regulations & Approvals / Full-Time or Part-Time (m/w/d)

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we\’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you\’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you\’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.

Lead with vision – secure innovation through strong regulations!

You\’re passionate about bringing technically sophisticated and innovative products to customers around the world—quickly and safely. With your enthusiasm for both people and technology, you and your team take a leading role in shaping practical, hands-on regulatory and approvals work for a large part of Hilti\’s product portfolio.
You contribute to your team\’s success through your leadership skills and your ability to support and develop employees. What sets you apart is your empathy, clarity, and natural talent for engaging and motivating others.
In your leadership role, you actively drive the strategic development of approvals for your portfolio and contribute to cross-functional work in regulations and standardization. In close collaboration with all key stakeholders in the relevant development areas, you ensure the sustainable implementation of our innovation pipeline.
At the same time, this position offers you a clear, long-term development perspective: In the coming years, you will build deep expertise in a central, future-oriented area of product development and global regulatory management. This opens up realistic opportunities for further advancement—for example, taking on strategic responsibilities in the areas of regulations, standardization, or compliance, or moving into a leadership role in other areas, such as a business unit. This position is explicitly aimed at individuals who want to take on more responsibility within the company in the medium term and are willing to actively help shape this path.

This position can be filled on a full-time or part-time basis (minimum 35 hours/week).

• Responsibility for the sustainable and timely certification and approvals of devices across four Business Units—particularly in the areas of diamond drilling and cutting, dust management, measuring and fastening tools with various drive systems, robotics, as well as wireless and IT products
• Strategic advancement of cross-functional regulatory management, including product-related sustainability regulations and standardization for household appliances (IEC 60335)
• Leadership, motivation, and development of the team in alignment with Hilti\’s leadership principles
• Active support of employees\‘ technical and personal development through tailored initiatives and regular coaching
• Close collaboration with key internal stakeholders to contribute to central business and strategic processes
• Building, managing, and maintaining external partnerships and service providers to ensure efficient implementation of regulatory requirements
• Active involvement in the ongoing organizational development of the entire approvals function

• Degree in a technical or scientific discipline
• Around 10 years of relevant international experience in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or a related field-;ideally in industries such as power tools, home appliances, garden equipment, or medical technology, or automotive
• Expertise in product regulations and standardization, with solid knowledge of relevant norms, legal requirements, and their implementation in international approval processes
• Proven leadership experience with a people-centered management style
• Strong \“driver mindset\“: proactive, solution-oriented, and committed to taking ownership and pushing topics forward
• Open, clear, and confident communicator;able to collaborate effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all organizational levels
• High level of personal responsibility, a structured way of working, and a genuine interest in taking on responsibility in a dynamic, international environment
• Fluent in English; good command of German is a plus

We offer you a unique place to work, in which you are part of a creative and interdisciplinary team. We will give you a lot of responsibility to develop yourself and we´ll support you in shaping your individual career path.

In addition, we offer you innovative and personalized Benefits, such as

• Internal mentoring program
• In-house fitness area with training courses
• Mobile working (up to 50% of the monthly working time)
• Sabbatical
• Subsidised Company Bike
• Subsidised monthly and annual public transport subscriptions
• Company pension scheme (employer-financed)
• Subsidy for childcare • Summer holiday care for children
• Two impactful days to make a difference in the environment and society

Further benefits

• Support in relocating and finding a flat
• Tax advice