Global Product Manager Supplements & Medical Devices (d/f/m)

 

Essity is a leading global hygiene and healthcare company. We are committed to improving the quality of life through high-quality hygiene and healthcare solutions. We sell our products and solutions in around 150 countries under many strong brands, including the global market leaders TENA and Tork, as well as well-known brands such as Jobst, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, Vinda and Zewa.

 

About the Role 

 

As Global Product Manager, you will shape a defined part of the global product agenda for Essity’s New Business B2C team within the Continence Care category. You will translate business strategy into clear portfolio priorities, drive market expansion and support sustainable growth across a selected range of food supplements and medical devices. 

You will provide strategic direction across product, regulatory and commercial workstreams, aligning global and local stakeholders to ensure the portfolio is compliant, competitive and positioned to scale. 

With a high degree of autonomy, you will drive complex portfolio decisions, balance growth opportunities and risk, and influence key stakeholders on portfolio investments, market entry and resource priorities. 

  

What you will do 

 

Portfolio Strategy, Governance & Performance 

• Shape the global B2C portfolio strategy and roadmap, aligning it with Essity’s growth and financial priorities, and guide investment, launch, optimisation and discontinuation decisions across the product lifecycle. 

• Drive consistent and compliant portfolio execution globally by ensuring effective regulatory and claims governance and setting standards for product information, specifications, packaging and master data. 

• Turn consumer, market and financial insights into strategic portfolio choices, identifying opportunities, managing risks and advising senior leaders on portfolio direction, investment priorities and value creation. 

Market Expansion & Commercial Readiness 

• Drive B2C expansion into new markets, assessing opportunities and partnering with leadership on where and when to launch, while aligning priorities, timelines and resources with country managers. 

• Ensure commercial and operational launch readiness across supply, logistics, fulfilment, customer service, pricing, marketplaces and channels, while coordinating relevant external partners and vendors. 

• Build scalable launch processes and playbooks to enable faster, lower-risk market entries, track post-launch performance and proactively address compliance, operational and commercial risks. 

Next-Generation Products & Services 

• Act as a venture builder for new B2C opportunities, taking business models, concepts and products from idea to validation through consumer research, digital experiments, smoke testing and early marketing pilots. 

• Shape and develop new products by translating consumer, market and regulatory needs into compelling concepts and specifications, and contribute to their testing, development and optimisation. 

 

Who You Are 

 

• Solid experience in global product management, portfolio strategy, commercialisation, innovation or venture building, ideally within consumer health, OTC, food supplements or medical devices. 

• A proven track record of successfully shaping portfolio decisions, leading multi-country launches or delivering commercial results in an international environment. 

• Strong understanding of the European regulatory landscape for supplements and medical devices, with the ability to balance growth, speed, quality and compliance. 

• Skilled at bringing together functions, markets and external partners, building alignment, influencing stakeholders and constructively challenging decisions when needed. 

• A combination of strategic and commercial thinking with a strong focus on execution, using consumer, market and financial insights to set priorities and guide investment decisions. 

• Comfortable working in a complex matrix organisation while maintaining an entrepreneurial mindset, creating clarity, building trust and leading inclusively. 

• Experience with D2C, e-commerce or subscription models, marketplaces or retail environments, product information and master data, or lean innovation approaches would be a strong advantage. 

• Confident communication skills in English, with additional European languages considered an advantage, as well as openness to international travel to support key priorities, launches and partnerships. 

 

Our Benefits for You 

 

The benefits listed refer to the primary location and can vary to other locations. This also applies to a non-tariff position. 

 

• Compensation & Benefits 
  Compensation according to the Bavarian paper tariff, yearly special payment, holiday allowance and bonus, pension schemes, anniversary bonus, childcare allowance, Corporate Benefits & other employee benefits 
• Work-Life-Balance
  Hybrid working model, flexible working hours, 38h week, 30 days of vacation, lifetime working time account 
• Learning & Development 
  Structured onboarding, training opportunities such as digital learning platform, coaching & mentoring as possible part of individual development plan, participation in professional conferences and fairs 
• Health & Well-being 
  Discounted fitness membership, Lease-a-bike, health and well-being month, mindfulness courses, "PME Familienservice", employee surveys 
• Team & Collaboration 
  People culture, communities & networks, co-working spaces, leadership guidelines, canteen 
• Mobility 
  Public transport allowance, bicycle parking, free car parking, e-charging stations 

 

This is Us

 

At Essity our Beliefs & Behaviours (Care, Collaboration, Courage and Commitment) is the foundation for our inclusive culture and as such something we are living on an everyday basis. With a purpose of Breaking Barriers to Well-being diversity, equity & inclusion is established in our core.

 

We are committed against discrimination on the basis of color, ethnicity, migration history, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, caregiving responsibilities, disability, chronic illness, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information and other. We explicitly welcome applications from people who are structurally, institutionally, intersectionally discriminated.

 

 

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