Continental Tech Stack
Global automotive supplier: tires, software, and autonomous driving systems
Continental is a €19.7B revenue automotive and industrial supplier operating across 54 countries with ~78,000 employees. The tech stack reflects a mature manufacturing operation—heavy on SAP (MM, PP/DS, PM, FI, SuccessFactors), PLC/automation (Siemens, Allen-Bradley, Beckhoff), and Microsoft enterprise tools—combined with active adoption of cloud modernization (S/4HANA, Power BI, Salesforce, Microsoft Purview). Hiring velocity is steady across engineering (277 open roles), manufacturing (247), and ops (170), with a mid-level and intern-heavy cohort, indicating both replacement hiring and graduate program scaling. Active projects cluster around ERP modernization, tax/compliance automation, and procurement optimization.
Tech Stack 200 technologies
What Continental Is Building
◆Challenges
- Reducing scrap
- Ensuring compliance with international tax regulations
- Performance improvement
- Need qualified talent
- Improving process stability
- Compliance with regulatory standards
- Ensuring safety compliance
- Need qualified nachwuchskräfte
- Improving product quality
- Energy efficiency improvement
▲Active Projects
- New ifrs implementation
- Ip strategy development
- Continuous improvement of treasury processes and systems
- Automation and process optimization using sap and business warehouse
- It implementation projects within integrity & law it
- M&a tax integration
- Cross-border compliance projects
- Application lifecycle management for integrity & law applications
- Complex procurement projects
- Distributor and end-user training program
Hiring Activity
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Category Lead, Client Service Lead, Head of R&D
