Job Opportunities

Your Responsibilities:

• Sole responsibility for completing all administrative and organizational tasks

• Assisting with the coordination of all schedules and diary arrangements, based on a good understanding of the functioning of a finance department  

• Prioritizing tasks and forward planning

• Compiling documentation for discussions and meetings

• Following-up ongoing tasks

• Preparing presentations and correcting/editing speech texts

• Maintaining close contact with department employees in Germany and abroad

• Making travel arrangements and bookings and settling any invoices

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Training, further education or degree in a business field, plus several years’ professional experience

• Good understanding of the functioning of an AG (public limited company) that is listed on the stock exchange, as well as a finance department

• Proficiency in written and spoken English for use in the workplace 

• Ability to think ahead and think responsibly

• Strong communication and organizational skills

• Excellent resilience and perseverance

• Good interpersonal skills, in particular empathy and openness

• Exceptional commitment, discretion and loyalty

• Ability to be the cornerstone of the department and the CFO’s left and right-hand support

We offer:

• A position of trust in a dynamic company

• Performance-based salary and benefits

• Opportunity to work closely with top management and executives

• An international working environment

Contact

If this interesting and varied role appeals to you, we look forward to receiving your application (stating your earliest possible start date and salary expectations). If you have any questions, please contact Petra Klärner on +49 (0)69 201107247. The application link on the KION website www.kiongroup.com will take you to our partner portal, where you can conveniently upload your documents in just a few minutes.

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Your main duties will include:

• Assist the Group Data Protection Officer team with administrative duties

• Assist with processing directory documentation (processes and data handling, and technical and organizational security measures in individual departments)

• Assist with the processing of data subject requests

• Deadline and follow-up management

• Organization of meetings and training events, including preparation and follow-up of presentations, reports etc.

• Research activities

Qualifications & requirements:

• Completed commercial training or a comparable qualification

• Professional experience as an assistant and a good understanding of data protection

• Good knowledge of German and English, knowledge of additional languages would be beneficial

• Knowledge of secure use of Microsoft Office programs and the internet

• Communication skills

• Responsible, goal-orientated, and independent way of working, characterized by of precision and reliability

• Outstanding organizational skills

• Can work well and flexibly under pressure and under a high workload

• Ability to work well as part of a team

We offer:

• Comprehensive training in your field of duties

• A modern, comfortable work environment

• A collegial working atmosphere

• Opportunities for development

• Performance-based pay

• A company pension scheme

Contact

If this interesting and varied role appeals to you, we look forward to receiving your application (stating your earliest possible start date and salary expectations). If you have any questions, please contact Petra Klärner on +49 (0) 69 201107247. The application link on our website will take you to our partner portal, where you can upload your documents in just a few minutes.

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Your main duties will include:

• Supervising affiliates in terms of the Group’s reporting and planning

• Monthly analysis and variance analyses of financial data

• Creating monthly reports for management

• Further developing the current controlling tools and processes

• Coordinating with other departments (e.g. Accounting and IT)

• Ad-hoc analysis and involvement in special projects

Qualifications & requirements:

• Degree in economics

• Several years of professional experience in the field of Controlling/Reporting, preferably in an international environment

• Knowledge of IFRS, in particular IFRS 15/16, knowledge of manufacturer leasing desirable

• Affinity for IT: good knowledge of Microsoft Office and SAP FI, SAP CO, and SAP BW

• Knowledge of MS BI/MS Access and SAP SEM BCS is advantageous

• You will be committed, have an independent way of working and the ability to work in a team whilst using your own initiative and have a “hands-on” mentality

• Analytical and conceptual thinking ability

• Willingness to travel, particularly within Europe

• Business fluency in German and English, both written and spoken

We offer:

• Comprehensive training in your field of duties

• A modern, comfortable work environment

• A collegial working atmosphere

• Opportunities for development

• Performance-based pay

• A company pension scheme

Contact

If this interesting and varied role appeals to you, we look forward to receiving your application (stating your earliest possible start date and salary expectations). If you have any questions, please contact Petra Klärner on +49 (0) 69 201107247. The application link on our website www.kiongroup.com will take you to our partner portal, where you can upload your documents in just a few minutes.

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Your Responsibilities:

• Conception, design and development of innovative solutions with the focus on data analytics

• Evaluation and selection of potential technologies as well as conduction of feasibility studies / proof of concepts

• Participating in prototyping workshops and contributing technical points of view and experiences

Your Profile:

• Comprehensive IT knowledge based on a university degree in computer science or a comparable education

• Experience in the design, development and maintenance of data-intensive applications

• Experience in several of the following fields:

• Data modeling, data management, databases, data access

• Distributed systems and popular big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, Kafka, …)

• Cloud-based platforms (IaaS, PaaS), ideally Azure

• Development of data pipelines in Java, Scala or Python

• Usage of analytical methods with Python or R

• Experience with agile methods of software development (ideally SCRUM)

• High degree of personal initiative and solution-oriented thinking

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to fluently communicate in German and English

We offer:

• The opportunity to work in a dedicated team

• A modern, pleasant working environment

• Performance-related salary

• Additional employee benefits

Contact

If this interesting and varied role appeals to you, we look forward to receiving your application (stating your earliest possible start date and salary expectations) via our application link (at www.kiongroup.com). Your contact person is Arno Buschmann (Tel. +49 (0) 69 201107165).

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Your Responsibilities:

• Conception, design and development of innovative analytical solutions

• Preparation, cleansing and modelling of structured and unstructured data

• Evaluation and selection of potential analytical methods and implementation of feasibility studies (PoC)

• Participation in prototyping workshops for product development in order to introduce methodical and technical perspectives

Your Profile:

• Comprehensive IT knowledge based on a university degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics or a comparable education

• Knowledge and experience in several of the following areas:

• Practical application of data analysis methods (statistics, simulation and optimization, machine learning, ...)

• Programming with Python and/or R in particular their data science stacks (pandas, scikit-learn, caret, tidyverse, etc.)

• Visualization of complex connections with Python, R (plotly, matplotlib, ggplot) and PowerBI

• Query common database solutions in their native languages (SQL, HiveQL, Gremlin, ...)

• Use cloud-based platforms (IaaS, PaaS), ideally Azure

• High degree of initiative and solution orientation and willingness to penetrate technical issues

• Experience with agile methods of software development (ideally SCRUM)

• High degree of personal initiative and solution-oriented thinking

• Strong conceptual, analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to fluently communicate in German and English

We offer:

• The opportunity to work in a dedicated team

• A modern, pleasant working environment

• Performance-related salary

• Additional employee benefits

Contact

If this interesting and varied role appeals to you, we look forward to receiving your application (stating your earliest possible start date and salary expectations) via our application link (at www.kiongroup.com). Your contact person is Arno Buschmann (Tel. +49 (0) 69 201107165).

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Your responsibilities:

• Act as a central point of contact for one of the operational units of the KION Group

• Provide support to and on-going analysis of one operational unit

• Complete monthly reporting including annotations for the Executive Board

• Actively supervise the creation of budgets and forecast planning

• Oversee projects and initiatives

• Participate in strategic projects

Your profile:

• A high-level degree in business management/economics or industrial engineering with a focus on controlling or finance and accounting

• At least five years of professional experience as a controller at an international group

• Experience in operational investment controlling, as well as in planning and reporting

• Fluent in business German and English (other languages would be an advantage)

• Proficient with MS Office applications

• Flexible in terms of location and a willingness to travel

• Very good analytical skills and a high degree of flexibility

• Good social and communication skills

We offer:

• Exciting responsibilities in a dedicated and dynamic team

• The opportunity to work independently

• A solution-oriented approach

• Professional development opportunities

• Promotion of leadership potential

Contact

If this interesting and varied position excites you, we look forward to receiving your application (with an indication of your earliest possible start date and expected salary), which you can submit online via our application link (at www.kiongroup.com). Your contact person is Arno Buschmann (Tel. +49 (0) 69 11020 7165).

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Your Responsibilities:

• You will program embedded software with C / C++ on complex control devices (e.g. with XC2000, Aurix TC2xx) in the area of assistance systems and vehicle-to-x communication

• You will help design software architecture and develop drivers, HAL, communication interfaces and functions, but also bootloaders and shared libraries

• You will support projects with your solutions, either by contributing to the prototype phase or by developing series software and implementing new functions there

• You will be responsible for:

  • developing and implementing low-level software

  • creating software requirements and software architecture

  • implementing drivers for on-chip peripherals and external components

  • designing and developing functions

  • implementing software components / modules in C / C++

  • testing software components

  • configuring and optimizing runtime environments (scheduler, RTOS)

  • configuring and integrating communication and security stacks, organizing and performing reviews, and fixing bugs

Qualifications & Requirements:

• A degree in electrical engineering, informatics, telecommunications, or equivalent study

• 3–5 years of professional experience

• Exceptional understanding of systems

• In-depth programming skills in C and C++

• Experience with modern 32-bit (16-bit) MCU cores (Aurix, TriCore, Cortex-M, XC2000)

• Experience in creating software architectures, including knowledge of multi-core MCU architectures

• Experience in embedded software development

• Experience with CAN protocols such as ISO-TP, CANopen, CCP, TTCAN, etc.

• Experience with diagnostics protocols (UDS, KWP2000, J1939)

• Proficiency with vector tools (CANoe, CANalyzer)

• Comfortable using debuggers, logic analyzers, oscilloscope etc.

• Well-versed in the use of Git and IDEs such as IntelliJ and PTC Integrity Lifecycle Manager

• Eclipse IDE

• Experience working in an agile project environment

• Very good knowledge of German and English, both written and spoken

• Independent working style, with high levels of passion and commitment

• Enthusiasm for IoT and logistics

Contact

If this interesting and varied role appeals to you, we look forward to receiving your application (stating your earliest possible start date and salary expectations). If you have any questions, please contact Petra Block on +49 (0)69 201107307. The application link on the KION website www.kiongroup.com will take you to our partner portal, where you can upload your documents in just a few minutes.

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The Intern in Strategy & Business Development will have the chance to assist the Director for Business Development & Strategy at KION North America in M&A transactions and strategic projects focused on revenue growth, profitability enhancement and business expansion. You will join a company on a strong and successful growth path in the North American market hence will be involved in numerous projects fostering this market expansion.
The variety of tasks in this role calls for a candidate with superior self-organization skills, a strong business sense, deep understanding of corporate finance and business strategy that is able to successfully pursue various projects at a time.  

  Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:  

• Assistance in defining strategy and market development initiatives,

• Active participation in implementation of strategy and M&A projects

• Completion of in-depth analyses of the competitive landscape, pricing and products,

• Preparation of pitch decks, proposals and presentations for top management,

• Creation of business cases and set up of financial models to aid forecasting and for pre-merger business valuation,

• Performance analysis of our dealer network,

• Cross-functional collaboration with other departments,

• Independently carrying out smaller projects,

• Research and collection of market data and other information.

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Your profile:

• Graduate with a Bachelor's degree or final-year undergraduate in business management/economics/another business-related subject,

• Analytical skills and experience in strategy development and implementation desired,

• Previous completed internship, preferably with an industrial manufacturer, management consultancy, investment bank or audit firm,

• Fluency in English,

• High proficiency in MS Office applications (esp. Excel and PowerPoint),

• Self-starter who enjoys being involved in cross-functional projects,

• Capability to work independently while applying conceptual thinking and creativity.

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You will be supervised by the Director of Strategy & Business Development for North America and working very closely with him and the Business Development team. The placement is expected to last at least for 6 months. You will be located in Summerville, South Carolina, USA.  

We look forward to receiving applications from enthusiastic candidates who are keen to put their skills to use and become part of our team in a varied and interesting role!

Contact

KION GROUP AG
Andrea Nikolaus
Thea-Rasche-Straße 8
60549 Frankfurt
D: 069 20110 7248
andrea.nikolaus@kiongroup-career.com

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Your Responsibilities:

• Taking responsibility predominantly for strategic issues relating to HR and organizational development

• Implementing the processes, tools and programs defined for talent and succession management, performance management and leadership development within the HR roadmap

• Managing and overseeing change processes within workshops and projects

• Offering advice on performance and talent management to executives and departments

• Taking action to ensure that the company is an attractive employer and is perceived as such (employer branding)

Qualifications & Requirements:

• A degree in business studies or psychology or a comparable qualification

• Excellent knowledge of HR and organizational development within an industrial setting

• Fluency in written and spoken English

• Outstanding analytical, conceptual and communication skills with a strategic focus

• Perseverance, a positive outlook, empathy and diplomacy

We offer:

• A listed company (MDAX) with outstanding further growth potential

• A modern, pleasant working environment and a motivated team

• Performance-related pay

• Additional employee benefits

Contact

If this interesting and varied role appeals to you, we look forward to receiving your application (stating your earliest possible start date and salary expectations). If you have any questions, please contact Petra Klärner on +49 (0)69 201107247. Click here to access our partner portal, where you can upload your documents hassle-free in just a few minutes.

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Your Responsibilities:

• Analyzing problems and turning ideas into exceptional products, service concepts, or process optimizations as part of the Design team

• Examining end users' behavior and the context of use, developing personas and customer journeys among other things and creating service blueprints with the focus on the end user at all times

• Supporting the development of appropriate business models in collaboration with the business stakeholders and the project team

• Developing (and improving) internal methods and processes with a view to identifying technical solutions for business scenarios on behalf of our customers

• Taking on the role of an expert when it comes to identifying relevant issues and employing suitable methods

• Planning, conducting and evaluating research as well as planning and conducting user tests

• Planning and running workshops

• Acting as the point of contact for internal and external stakeholders

Qualifications & Requirements:

• A degree in (service) design, strategy, psychology or a related subject

• More than three years of professional experience as a Service Designer or in a similar role

• Experience of managing digital projects and good knowledge of design thinking and Lean UX methodology

• Enthusiasm about current trends and discussions surrounding service design and an ability to articulate and visualize findings and ideas effectively

• Some initial experience of working with tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud or rapid prototyping solutions is desirable

• Excellent communication skills, confidence and assertiveness, demonstrated, for example, when running workshops with large groups

• Excellent knowledge of German and English (written and spoken)

• An ability to work well as part of a team

• Enthusiasm about state-of-the-art digital technology and a flair for experimentation

• Good people skills and sensitivity toward their needs

• Flexibility, creativity and fast reactions when planning and running projects and workshops

We offer:

• The chance to work as part of a dedicated and dynamic team

• A modern, pleasant working environment

• Plenty of opportunity to experiment and try out new ideas

• Performance-related pay

• Additional employee benefits

Contact

If this role appeals to you, we look forward to receiving your application (stating your earliest possible start date and your salary expectations) via our application link (which you can find at www.kiongroup.com). Your contact person is Arno Buschmann (phone: +49 (0) 69 2011 07165).

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Your Responsibilities:

• creating specifications for test cases based on the relevant requirements

• developing test automation solutions

• performing tests (component, integration, system tests)

• developing and optimizing test methods

• analyzing and evaluating test results and creating the associated test documents

• working closely with the software development team and product owner as part of an agile development process

• guaranteeing development quality

Qualifications & Requirements:

• A degree in electrical engineering, informatics, or a comparable qualification

• 2–3 years of professional experience in testing (SiL, HiL, system, vehicle) desirable

• Experience with CAN/CANopen 

• Experience with National Instruments tools (TestStand, LabView) and Vector (CANoe, CANalyser)

• ISTQB qualification desirable

• Experience with agile software / product development methods (ideally Scrum)

• Passion for digital topics, innovative technologies and trends

• High level of initiative, communication skills, and solution orientation

• Outstanding conceptual and analytical skills

• Team player

We can offer you:

As part of a dynamic team, you will be working to develop various solutions relating to connectivity and digitalization for the whole KION Group.

Contact

If this interesting and varied role appeals to you, we look forward to receiving your application (stating your earliest possible start date and salary expectations). If you have any questions, please contact Petra Block on +49 (0)69 201107307. The application link on the KION website www.kiongroup.com will take you to our partner portal, where you can upload your documents in just a few minutes.

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