Stephan Lorch

Head of Product & Licenses bei Porsche Lifestyle Group

Rottenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

About

Highly motivated and innovative product management professional with extensive experience in identifying market needs, managing product portfolios, product life cycles and new product development, developing and implementing focused strategic plans and effectively launching profitable products to the market. I'm looking forward to my next challenge in a product management or product marketing role. I have many years of experience in the specialty and team channel, in addition to retail, which give me a deep understanding of consumer and product needs within diverse sport categories. Specialties: Proven experience developing innovative, technical products and sport apparel from concept through the design finalization phase to successful commercialization, sales samples & bulk production. - Planning and preparing seasonal product briefs - Understanding consumer & market needs - Innovation through new and existing products - Ability to lead and to gather inspiration across sports - Leading a cross-functional team - Ability to create innovative product within margin target

Experience

  • Porsche Design Group (12 yrs)
    • Head of Product & Licenses Porsche Design
      Feb 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 5 mos

    • Porsche Design Sport - Product & License Manager
      Jul 2014 - Feb 2019 · 4 yrs 8 mos

      Range Planning Mangement Product Life Cycle Design Briefing and Market Research Product Management Sales Strategy Product Marketing Competitive Analysis Product Development Product Positioning

  • uhlsport GmbH (7 yrs 7 mos)
    • Head of Product Management
      Jan 2010 - Jan 2014 · 4 yrs 1 mo

      Range Planning Global Sourcing Mangement Product Life Cycle Design Briefing and Market Research Product Management Sales Strategy & Pricing Pricing Product Marketing Competitive Analysis Product Development Product Positioning Personnel Management

    • Product Manager uhlsport
      Jul 2006 - Dec 2009 · 3 yrs 6 mos

  • Product Manager at Mettler-Toledo International, Inc
    2005 - 2006 · 1 yr

  • Prodcut Manager at VTech
    2002 - 2005 · 3 yrs

    Range Planning Product briefs for PD Competitive analysis, market research, TO analysis Product positioning Product launches & communication strategy for pre-school products Consumer & Trade marketing projects (fairs, cross promomtion, catalogues, POS) Casflow-Planning & Controlling