Would you like to work in a dynamic environment? In a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks, creative freedom, and an international team? Do you share our values of respect, commitment, and sustainability?
Then you've come to the right place!
As part of the Group Innovation Team, you will support us in developing innovative and sustainable hygiene products and digital solutions for new markets and target groups – and in making our ideas visible and tangible.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Location: Düsseldorf
Department: Group Innovation – Innovation Department
Working hours: up to 20 hours/week
Start: Immediately or by agreement
Your Resposibilities:
1. Support the development of customer-centric product and service ideas along the early innovation process.
2. Design and execute customer validations (. interviews, surveys, experiments, rapid tests) to test desirability and acceptance.
3. Translate customer insights into clear hypotheses, opportunity areas and concept improvements.
4. Build simple digital or physical prototypes to make ideas tangible and testable.
5. Conduct structured research on consumer behaviour, market trends and usage contexts.
6. Document learnings and help build an insight-driven idea backlog for future ideation sprints.
7. Actively contribute to an open, experimental innovation culture within the WEPA Group.
Your profile:
Qualifications:
8. Enrolled in a Bachelor’s or Master’s program in Psychology, Design, Engineering, Business, Social Sciences or a comparable field with a strong interest in users and customers
Knowledge & Experience:
9. First experience or strong interest in user research, customer interviews, surveys or experiments
10. Ability to structure insights and derive implications for product or service ideas
11. Experience with prototyping, visualization, research tools or data analysis is a plus
12. Curiosity for sustainability, circular products and consumer decision-making
Working:
13. Structured, analytical and hands-on, while being comfortable working with hypotheses and imperfect data
14. You enjoy testing ideas early, learning fast and iterating based on feedback
15. Independent but team-oriented, with a strong sense of ownership
Personality:
16. Curious about people, behaviour and real customer needs
17. Open-minded, reflective and willing to challenge assumptions
18. Motivated to create impact beyond concepts and slides
Language: Fluent in English, German is a plus