The posting
Your responsibilities
- Conduct on-site visits, interviews, observation, and where appropriate mystery shopping at kitchen design studios, retailers, and showrooms to understand consumer needs and the built-in refrigerator sales process.
- Identify and document factors influencing consumer choices and product recommendations, including brand awareness, product presentation, sales practices, design software, and installer preferences.
- Map the consumer decision journey for built-in appliances in Germany, from initial kitchen design consultation and product comparison to recommendation and final purchase.
- Conduct field-based competitor and retail-channel benchmarking, identifying consumer insights and effective retail practices.
- Translate field research and consumer insights into actionable recommendations for marketing, product planning, sales, and R&D to improve Midea’s positioning in the built-in segment.
- Work with relevant internal teams and external partners to identify how kitchen-planning software and retail tools influence product visibility and consumer choice.
- Track the impact of agreed actions on product visibility, recommendation patterns, and other available indicators of retail engagement and conversion.
- Serve as the “voice of the consumer and retail channel” in cross-functional meetings, ensuring decisions are grounded in first-hand field research and market evidence.
Your profile
- Native or fluent German speaker with excellent English communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Social Research, or a related field – or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years’ experience in consumer or market research, field research, retail marketing, or the kitchen/appliance industry in Germany.
- Strong understanding of the kitchen retail ecosystem and built-in appliance buying process.
- Proven ability to conduct field research and translate consumer and retail-channel insights into practical recommendations.
- Experience with kitchen design software (e.g., CARAT, Winner, 2020 Design) is a strong plus.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to build trust with diverse stakeholders from retail staff to senior management.
- Self-driven, analytical, and solution-oriented.
What we offer
- A unique opportunity to shape Midea’s built-in refrigerator business in Germany – our priority European market.
- High visibility within Midea’s Global Built-in Competence Center.
- The chance to directly influence strategy through first-hand market intelligence.
- International collaboration with marketing, product planning, and R&D teams.
- Dynamic and supportive working environment.



