Senior Category & Execution Manager CE

Karo Healthcare, a dynamic and growing personal-care retail company, is all about making smart choices for everyday healthcare. With a wide-ranging portfolio across seven categories including medical products, we own and sell over 80 brands in about 90 countries. Our portfolio includes such brands as E45, Pevaryl, Lamisil, Nutravita, Decubal and many others. Our core belief in empowering people to make intelligent health decisions drives our growth strategy, blending organic expansion and M&A. 

Join us at Karo Healthcare on our exciting journey. We're currently looking for a Senior Category & Execution Manager CE for our office in Düsseldorf. 

What's in it for you? Shape a brand-new commercial strategy function and influence how one of Europe's fastest-growing consumer healthcare businesses wins across Central Europe, focused on DACH. This is a high-impact role where you'll work closely with senior leaders, build commercial capability, and help drive profitable growth across leading retail customers and channels. 

What you'll be doing • Develop and embed the DACH commercial strategy, identifying where to win across customers, channels and categories aligned with our commercial objectives. 

• Build commercial frameworks, governance and execution standards that drive profitable, sustainable growth. 

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Category, Finance and Revenue Growth Management to translate strategy into commercial action. 

• Create compelling customer propositions and sell-in stories that strengthen retailer partnerships and category growth. 

• Lead commercial input into annual planning, innovation launches and long-term business planning. 

• Define pricing, promotional and trade investment principles to maximise return on investment and margin. 

• Support customer growth strategies, ensuring strong execution and also plan and execute against national/regional promotions (also managing POS materials) 

• Ensure consistent brand and customer executions, creating sales tools and stories 

• Analyze market trends, competitor activities and shopper insights 

• Monitor commercial performance, identify risks and opportunities, and recommend actions to improve sales, profitability and execution. 

• Build strong relationships with key retail partners, influencing commercial direction and creating long-term value. 

• Lead cross-functional initiatives and drive change across the DACH commercial organisation.