Freudenberg is a family-owned group of companies active on the global stage. Its 16 Business Groups operate on various markets and in various sectors of industry.
Freudenberg offers its customers in the automotive, mechanical and plant engineering, textile and clothing, construction, mining and heavy industry, energy, chemical, oil and gas sectors tailor-made, innovative technological products and services. Customer groupings also include companies in the medical technology, civil aviation, rail vehicles and semiconductor sectors.
Freudenberg develops and manufactures seals, vibration control technology components, filters, nonwovens, surface treatment products, release agents and specialty lubricants, medical technology, and mechatronic products.
Freudenberg develops software solutions and IT services primarily for small- and medium-sized enterprises. Final users enjoy the benefits of Freudenberg's state-of-the-art household products marketed under the vileda®, O'Cedar® and Wettex® brands.
Creativity, quality, diversity and innovative strength are the company's cornerstones. Reliability and responsible conduct rank among the basic values of the company which was founded over 160 years ago. Freudenberg is committed to partnerships with customers, and believes in a long-term orientation, financial solidity and the excellence of over 34,000 associates in 59 countries around the globe.
Freudenberg sees itself as an enterprising corporation. Operative business is the responsibility of stand-alone companies whose management conducts business autonomously. The individual companies belong to one of several Business Groups. The executive bodies of the parent company Freudenberg & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft - the Management Board, the Board of Partners, and the Partners' Meeting - have responsibilities similar to those of the Executive Board, the Supervisory Board and the Shareholders Meeting in German corporations. The parent company's Corporate Functions control, coordinate and monitor the activities of the Freudenberg Group and provide advice and support to Business Groups. The Management Board members are jointly responsible for the leadership of the Freudenberg Group.
Freudenberg is a family company. It is owned by some 300 heirs to the founding father Carl Johann Freudenberg.
As a family company, Freudenberg is guided by its long-term orientation, financial solidity and the excellence of its people in 59 countries around the globe. The Freudenberg Group generates consolidated annual sales of about 50 billion CNY (5,4 mill. EUR) and employs more than 34,500 people worldwide.
Freudenberg is a family company offering its customers technically challenging product solutions and services. The Group has held business ties with customers and partners in China for over 100 years. Together with its long-standing partners, the Freudenberg Group has a workforce in China of more than 4,500 employees at 70 locations. Consolidated sales were 3.3 billion CNY in 2010. In the past 7 years, the Group has invested around CNY 1.6 billion in production plants and distribution. The Freudenberg Group is continuously expanding its presence and focus in China, and offers manifold career opportunities in a network of global acting, innovative and successful companies.
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Why Freudenberg
The Freudenberg Group and its partners in China comprise ten business areas nationwide, employing about 3,800 people. As a strategically important growth region, the Group offers attractive career opportunities in China’s major cities.
Freudenberg is permanently searching for qualified and loyal employees, who are keen to help drive its business development in an exciting and dynamically growing market environment. You may learn more about us through an internship, start your career at our company with a traineeship or start directly on the job as a young professional. If you are a professional looking for new challenges or development opportunities, Freudenberg may also be the right address for you.
The company works closely with Tsinghua University in Beijing and with Tongji University in Shanghai. The company sends selected graduates to Germany or other countries every year to attend an international training program, through which they can gain personal experience in dealing with different cultures and working in an international environment. Freudenberg has, for example, employed over 50 graduates from Tsinghua University in the past 12 years.
At Freudenberg, we are not just looking at recruiting people to meet today’s requirements. Guided by our long-term orientation, we are developing and grooming talent for the future to create the next-generation leadership.
One of Freudenberg’s biggest success factors in China is its people and the value they add to its business activities. This is enhanced through the Group’s strong emphasis on talent development. As part of our family, you will be exposed to:
- A world-class, competitive environment
- A challenging work profile
- Global business philosophy expanding across geographies - Europe, America, Asia
- Diversity in management and people
- Responsibility from the first assignment
- Excellent training and development practices and methods
- Achievement oriented cultures and people
- Opportunities to prove yourself and be a 'great' leader or team player
As an integral part of Freudenberg Group you will be trained with 'best in world' methods, practices and teachers to build expertise in:
- Functional domains allowing you to go 'beyond' the norms,
- Managerial competence and leadership skills
- Strategic thinking
- Coaching and mentoring
- Innovation and creativity
- Business acumen
- Global and local business management
- Personal and professional success
Freudenberg offers opportunities for career development in:
- General Management
- Finance and Controlling
- Sales and Marketing
- Human Resources
- (Industrial) Engineering - Production, Operations, Research and Development.
Qualities Freudenberg is looking for in its employees:
- Above average ambition and desire
- Highly developed social competence
- Long-term orientation
- Willingness to learn and work hard
- A first class degree in your chosen domain
- Excellent communication & listening skills
- Flexibility, mobility and adaptability to change
- Personal and professional success
Have we raised your interest in our company? Then we look forward to hearing from you.
Freudenberg Group
Höhnerweg 2-4
69465 Weinheim