Associate Category & Product development Manager Incontinence drainage

​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​.

• 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​