Jobs & careers Molded fiber in series production. And a place for you on the team that makes it

Köln-Ossendorf · Starting immediately · Salary depending on experience

PAPACKS produces fiber-based packaging from paper, wood and industrial hemp fibers. Our customers are industrial and trading companies across Europe; production takes place in Arnstadt and Appingedam.

You work as the right hand of our CMO. Together, you develop how our products come to market – and you take on topics from that work and see them through. The team is small: our CMO, a social media manager, the inside sales team and you. Short paths, quick decisions. The idea in the morning, live in the afternoon.

You learn a lot here because you are involved in everything: product, copy, campaign, numbers, customer.

Your tasks

Together with the CMO

• Develop campaigns and marketing strategies: how do we bring a product to market, and through which channels do we sell it?
• Contribute ideas for new products – from the idea to everything needed to sell them
• Coordinate appointments and processes with customers, partners and service providers
• Evaluate results and derive the next steps from them

Product & content

• Product copy, data sheets and brochures
• Company brochure and information material for our sales partners
• Presentations and documents for sales and customer meetings
• You understand our products and translate them into arguments that resonate with customers

Digital

• Website: content, structure, further development
• SEO: build visibility and clean up whatever is not clean yet
• Set up and optimize sales funnels – from first contact to inquiry
• CRM: maintain data, map processes, set up automations
• Analytics: understand what works and optimize accordingly
• Google Ads and Analytics
• Our online shop (few products, manageable effort)

Social media

• You develop concepts and copy for LinkedIn and Instagram
• You work out the photo and video production together with our social media manager

Customers & partners

• You talk to prospects who have contacted us: what do they need, what matters to them? This is where you learn the most about our market
• Arrange and prepare appointments – you usually visit customers together with the CMO
• Contact with our sales partners

Sales

• Analyze markets and target groups for our products
• Create and improve documents and processes for the sales process – so that everything runs smoothly from lead to delivery
• Bring together in the CRM what we know about customers, so that marketing and sales can turn it into a shared strategy

How we work

AI is part of our everyday work – for research, copy, images, analyses and automations. We show you how to use it properly: open in how you apply it, but with the clear rule that everything is checked before it goes out. That is exactly what matters to us – using tools effectively and checking the results.

We work with Canva, Google Workspace and MacBooks. Adobe Creative Suite is a plus, but not a must.

What you bring

• At least 2 years of professional experience in marketing – in a company, an agency or both
• Vocational training or a degree in marketing, communications, business administration or a comparable field
• You have used Google Ads and Analytics yourself, not just heard of them
• Excellent writing in German: you explain complex things simply and clearly
• Genuine interest in our products: how they are made, what they are made of and what happens to them at the end of their life cycle. We will teach you about materials and packaging law
• You enjoy talking on the phone, including with people you do not know yet
• Coordination skills: aligning schedules, approaching people, holding things together
• Independent way of working: you are given topics and see them through on your own
• Willingness to travel occasionally to customers, trade shows or events – usually together with the CMO

A plus: English (our customers are international – you can build on it with us), experience with CMS and CRM.

Less than two years of experience, but you can show what you are capable of? Apply anyway. What you have built is what counts.

What we offer

• Permanent, full-time, flextime, 28 days of vacation
• Direct line to the CMO: you work at his side and see how decisions are made
• Breadth instead of pigeonholing: product marketing, performance, content and sales in one job
• Modern tools and the freedom to try new things
• Prospects: we are growing. This position can develop into a role with your own responsibility for marketing or sales, depending on where your interests lie. We cannot guarantee that, but we mean it
• Subsidy for gym membership and public transit pass, Corporate Benefits, company events
• Köln-Ossendorf: bus stop at the door, KVB within 5–10 minutes, parking within 3–5 minutes

Place of work: mostly on site – as the right hand, you should be within reach. Working from home for a day now and then is no problem; permanent remote work does not fit the role.

Application

No cover letter needed – your résumé and two or three sentences are enough. Feel free to include work samples (copy, graphics, posts, campaigns). Tell us when you can start. We usually get back to you within three business days.

Köln-Ossendorf · Starting immediately · Salary depending on experience

PAPACKS produces fiber-based packaging from paper, wood and industrial hemp fibers. Our customers are industrial and trading companies across Europe; production takes place at our sites in Arnstadt and Appingedam.

We are expanding our inside sales team in Cologne and are filling the position on a permanent, full-time basis as soon as possible.

Inside sales is in your hands: quotes, orders, coordination with production and logistics, all the way to the invoice. No cold calling – but the commercial management of ongoing customer relationships.

Your tasks

Customer service & order processing

• Prepare quotes, enter and check orders, send order confirmations
• Day-to-day business with existing customers: inquiries, delivery dates, sample shipments
• Coordinating orders with production and logistics – you are the interface
• Customer-specific orders from suppliers
• Creating new items, maintaining the order overview

Commercial processing

• Preparing and sending invoices
• Payment monitoring and dunning
• Monthly cash flow overview for management
• Sales figure analyses for defined business units

You work closely with sales and report to the head of sales. This is an on-site role in Köln-Ossendorf. After onboarding, an occasional day working from home is possible, but we do not offer a fixed remote work model for this position.

What you bring

• Completed commercial vocational training (e.g., industrial clerk or wholesale and foreign trade clerk) or comparable experience
• Experience in inside sales, order processing or customer service
• Confident German, good English for written correspondence with European customers
• Diligence and independence: you see what is being left undone and take care of it
• Experience with an ERP system
• Knowledge of invoicing, dunning or accounting
• Experience in a manufacturing company

What we offer

• Permanent contract, €40,000 – €46,000 gross per year
• Personal responsibility – your area, your processes, short paths to management
• Flextime and 28 days of vacation
• Thorough onboarding in your area of responsibility
• Benefits: public transit pass, Corporate Benefits, company events, free hot drinks
• Köln-Ossendorf location: bus stop right at the door, KVB within 5–10 minutes, parking a 3–5 minute walk away

Application

We do not need a long cover letter – your résumé and two or three sentences on why the position is a fit are quite enough. Please also tell us when you are available. We are filling the position quickly and usually get back to you within three business days.

Köln-Ossendorf · Starting immediately · Salary depending on qualifications

PAPACKS produces fiber-based packaging from paper, wood and industrial hemp fibers. Our customers are industrial and trading companies across Europe; production takes place at our sites in Arnstadt and Appingedam.

We are expanding our office in Cologne and are filling the position on a permanent basis as soon as possible. You take on your own area of responsibility and have a direct line to management and our tax advisors.

Your tasks

Preparatory accounting

• Recording and reconciling customer receivables and incoming payments
• Checking incoming invoices and recording them in the DMS (Docuware)
• Preparing payment transactions and payment orders
• Checking expense and travel expense reports

Closing & administration

• Account reconciliation and preparation of documents for our tax advisors (no bookkeeping entries; you support our tax advisor)
• Proper filing and archiving of accounting records
• Recording and distributing incoming mail, as well as general administrative tasks

What you bring

• Completed commercial vocational training (e.g., tax clerk, industrial clerk, office clerk or comparable)
• Professional experience in general office work. Knowledge of financial accounting is a plus
• Proficient in MS Office, especially Excel
• Structured, careful and reliable way of working with a strong sense of responsibility
• Excellent German, spoken and written

A plus, but not a must: experience with a DMS and/or DATEV, basic English.

What we offer

• Permanent contract, €42,000 – €48,000 gross per year depending on qualifications
• Flextime and 28 days of vacation
• Your own area of responsibility with a direct line to management and our tax advisors
• Thorough onboarding in your area of responsibility
• Benefits: public transit pass, Corporate Benefits, free hot drinks
• Köln-Ossendorf location: bus stop right at the door, KVB within 5–10 minutes, parking a 3–5 minute walk away

About the place of work: this is an on-site role in Köln-Ossendorf. Incoming mail and document processing are handled on paper on site – which is why we do not offer remote work for this position.

Application

We do not need a long cover letter – your résumé and two or three sentences on why the position is a fit are quite enough. Please also tell us when you are available. We are filling the position quickly and usually get back to you within three business days.

Köln-Ossendorf · Starting immediately, start date by arrangement · Salary for full-time, depending on experience; part-time pro rata

PAPACKS produces fiber-based packaging from paper, wood and industrial hemp fibers. Our customers are industrial and trading companies across Europe; production takes place at our sites in Arnstadt and Appingedam.

We are expanding our sales team in Cologne and are filling the position on a permanent basis, full-time or part-time, as soon as possible.

You lead the way from the first conversation to the ongoing order: advising prospects, aligning quotes, negotiating deals. You have the inside sales team, which handles orders and invoices, at your side.

Your tasks

New customers & consulting

• Advise prospects: which packaging suits the product, filling line and requirements?
• Align quotes with engineering and inside sales and represent them to the customer
• Conduct sales conversations and negotiate deals – industrial and trading customers across Europe

Existing customers & CRM

• Build and maintain customer relationships, develop follow-up orders and new applications
• Keep leads, deals and appointments in the CRM – complete and up to date
• Create sales reports and evaluate them with the head of sales

You report to the head of sales and work closely with marketing, engineering and inside sales.

What you bring

• Experience in B2B sales of products that require explanation, ideally in packaging or industry
• You have advised customers and negotiated deals yourself
• Technical understanding of product and filling line – we will teach you molded fiber
• Confident German and good English for customer conversations in Europe
• Experience with a CRM system
• Independent way of working: you drive your customers and topics forward on your own

What we offer

• Permanent contract, fixed salary €36,000 – €60,000 gross per year for full-time, depending on experience; part-time pro rata
• Flextime and 28 days of vacation
• Personal responsibility – your customers, your deals, short paths to management
• Thorough onboarding in products, plants and processes
• Benefits: subsidies for gym membership and public transit pass, Corporate Benefits, company events, free hot drinks
• Köln-Ossendorf location: bus stop right at the door, KVB within 5–10 minutes, parking a 3–5 minute walk away

Application

We do not need a long cover letter – your résumé and two or three sentences on why the position is a fit are quite enough. Please also tell us when you are available. We usually get back to you within three business days.

Köln-Ossendorf · Starting immediately, start date by arrangement · Salary for full-time, depending on experience; part-time pro rata

At the R&D Innovation Hub in Cologne, formulations, samples and production tools are created. You design molded parts to customer specifications – from the 3D model to the approval drawing – and accompany them into tool making and production.

Your tasks

Your role with us

• Development and design of molded parts based on customer specifications (SolidWorks)
• Creating technical drawings along with 3D data for customer approval
• Supporting the project team on questions of feasibility and manufacturability
• Contributing to product-related technical and production documentation
• Reviewing and monitoring design results with customers and downstream departments such as tool making and production

What you bring

• Completed vocational training or degree in a technical field (technical drafter, CAD designer, tool making, packaging technology) or comparable
• Excellent SolidWorks skills: 3D modeling, assemblies, drawing derivation
• Experience in designing molded parts or tools
• You estimate design times realistically and meet them
• Independent, structured way of working

What we offer

• Permanent contract, €44,000 – €50,000 gross per year for full-time, depending on experience; part-time pro rata
• Flextime and 28 days of vacation
• Onboarding in your area of responsibility
• Support for personal and professional development
• Regular feedback and development reviews
• Benefits such as subsidies for gym membership and public transit pass, company events, Corporate Benefits, free hot drinks
• Flat hierarchies and short decision paths

Application

We do not need a long cover letter – your résumé and two or three sentences on why the position is a fit are enough. Work samples are welcome. Please also tell us when you are available. We usually get back to you within three business days.

Gigafactory Arnstadt · Starting immediately · Salary depending on experience

PAPACKS produces fiber-based packaging from paper, wood and industrial hemp fibers. Our customers are industrial and trading companies across Europe.

Our production is in Arnstadt: this is where the molded parts we develop for our customers are made. We are expanding the design engineering team – permanent, full-time, as soon as possible.

Your designs do not end up in a drawer. What you draw becomes a tool a few meters away and then runs on our machines. The path from idea to finished molded part is short here – and you accompany it from start to finish.

Your tasks

Design engineering

• Design and development of components and tools
• 3D models and assemblies in SolidWorks
• Standard-compliant technical drawings and CAD documentation
• Contributing to the development of new packaging solutions for customer inquiries

3D printing

• Managing and further developing our 3D printing projects
• Designing components for 3D printing, building and testing functional prototypes
• You help decide where printing reaches the goal faster than the conventional route

Coordination

• Technical coordination with production, tool making and project management
• Consider feasibility and manufacturability early instead of fixing them later
• Feeding feedback from manufacturing back into design

You work at the Arnstadt site and coordinate with colleagues in Cologne and Appingedam.

What you bring

• Completed technical vocational training or degree – for example technical product designer, construction mechanic with further training as a technician, mechanical engineering
• Excellent SolidWorks skills: 3D modeling, assemblies, drawing derivation
• Experience in designing components and tools
• Confident handling of standard-compliant technical drawings
• Experience in 3D printing – designing components for printing, working with slicer software and printers
• Excellent German, spoken and written
• Good English for coordinating with our Appingedam site and with suppliers
• Independent, structured way of working: you drive your projects forward on your own

A plus: experience in tool or mold making, knowledge of molded fiber or packaging development, familiarity with a PDM/PLM system.

You come from a different area of design engineering but know SolidWorks? Apply anyway. We can teach you molded fiber – but not clean design work.

What we offer

• Permanent full-time contract, flextime and 28 days of vacation
• Personal responsibility: your projects, your decisions, short paths to management
• Short paths: tool making and production at the same site — you see what becomes of your work
• 3D printing as an integral part of the role – not a sideline
• Thorough onboarding in molded fiber and our products
• Modern equipment and a hands-on team
• Further training: we support whatever you need for your projects

Application

We do not need a long cover letter – your résumé and two or three sentences on why the position is a fit are quite enough. Work samples are welcome: drawings, assemblies or printed components say more than any self-description. Please also tell us when you are available. We usually get back to you within three business days.