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Associate Category & Product development Manager Incontinence drainage

Over the last years Mediq has grown fast organically and inorganically, driven by an aggressive M&A strategy. As the company continues to grow, Mediq seeks to create leverage of scale, skill and best practices in its commercial offering. Mediq is determined to build a Group Commercial Category Management function across the organization that drives high impact to the top and bottom line. With our European footprint, Mediq’s category management spans across all geographies with a representation in local teams. In this role you will be part of the global team and report directly to the Category Director Ostomy & Continence.

What are you going to do?

​The role as associate category & product development manager incontinence drainage is to support the category director in driving the global category strategy across clusters and markets. Furthermore, you will be responsible for the development and continuous improvement of our products under the Mediq Own Brands. ​You will be responsible for identifying sales and gross margin improvements in your category across clusters. Furthermore, you define steering opportunities.​

​Your role will be to own and maintain the product hierarchy for incontinence drainage, which means introducing new SKU’s for the countries, and to lead SKU reduction. Additionally, you define good-better-best assortment strategy and advice countries on the optimal marketing mix.​

​The product development angle of the role adds to this responsibility in line with the medical device regulation (MDR) for which you will be fully supported by the QA/RA department​.

What is your background?

  • You have a master degree and more than 5 years of working experience in the healthcare industry
  • Knowledge of the full category management process and ability to adapt this process to pragmatically deliver challenging targets across the group​
  • In-depth knowledge of the use of incontinence drainage in care institutions
  • You have the ability to develop a category strategy and drive business development​
  • You are a strategic thinker, able to tackle complex issues and develop innovative solutions that result in winning partnerships ​
  • You are result oriented and structured
  • You are able to build good relationships with other stakeholders and team members whose feedback and support is key ​
  • Your presentation skills are excellent, you have the ability to write and speak clearly. You communicate complex ideas in a way that is easy to understand​
  • Fluency in English and residency in a Mediq country is a must, professional working proficiency in German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish is nice to have​

Group Category Management

Over the last years Mediq has grown fast organically and inorganically, driven by an aggressive M&A strategy. As the company continues to grow, Mediq seeks to create leverage of scale, skill and best practices in its commercial offering. Mediq is determined to build a Group Commercial Category Management function across the organization that drives high impact to the bottom line. With our European footprint, Mediq’s category management spans across all geographies with a representation in local teams.

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About Mediq

About Mediq

Our story is not just about ourselves. It is mainly about the millions of people who deserve the opportunity to get the most out of their lives. Fathers and mothers. Brothers and sisters. Young lovers and old friends. Grandparents and newborn babies. They have one thing in common: they have been diagnosed with a chronic or serious disorder. Mediq has activities in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

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Screening
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1st interview
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2nd interview
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