Executive Manager Commercial

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

This role is critical as we further sharpen commercial focus in Switzerland, strengthen end-to-end alignment between demand creation and supply execution, and translate market opportunities into profitable growth. Your responsibilities are:

• As a member of the three-person Executive Team, you independently identify growth opportunities within the commercial team Switzerland (10 direct reports) consisting of the streams Idea2Launch (Marketing), Source2Cash (Supply Chain) and Plan2Success (Sales) and translate them into value-creating initiatives.
• Based on the company strategy, you are accountable for the development of a successful commercial strategy in Switzerland, with a strong focus on consumers, customers and markets. You prioritize and execute with your team concrete solutions and decision proposals for the Executive Team and actively drive their implementation.
• You establish an integrated sourcing and planning End-to-End process, and you drive the further development and implementation of international projects across all streams.
• In order to improve performance, you systematically analyze market, customer, and sales data, translate insights into specific actions, and drive revenue, market share, and profitability.
• You continuously refine the sales strategy together with your team, expand key customer partnerships in a targeted manner, and lead or directly support contract and pricing negotiations to secure profitable growth.

WHAT YOU BRING

You are a commercially driven leader with a proven track record of consistently delivering profitable business growth, elevating team performance standards. You bring:

• Extensive FMCG experience with strong expertise in the Swiss market environment.
• Experience operating at Management Team level, balancing strategic priorities beyond the commercial function while actively managing and resolving day-to-day business challenges.
• Ability to identify growth opportunities, challenge status-quo and push the business forward with an action-oriented mindset and a strong sense of ownership and entrepreneurship.
• Proven ability to lead diverse teams across functions and seniority levels, with the ability to manage complexity and varying team dynamics.
• You are able to make sound decisions with incomplete information, maintain momentum under pressure and consistently drive follow-through.
• You are comfortable challenging assumptions, reallocating priorities to improve commercial performance.
• Fluent in German and English 

WHAT WE OFFER YOU

Your personality and qualifications are what count. Not gender, nationality, ethnic or social background, religion, disability, age or sexual orientation, and identity. We offer:

• A broad leadership role in a lean organization with significant decision-making latitude
• Flexible working hours including home office
• 28 days of vacation and the option to take 5 additional unpaid days
• Training credits for your personal development
• Attractive pension plan
• Annual health or sustainability allowance
• A new office building and modern working environment
• Trust-based collaboration in an agile team

INTERESTED

Send your CV together with all relevant documents and you are one step closer to your dream role. Instead of a motivation letter, please briefly describe your experience in aligning marketing, sales and supply chain to turn consumer demand into profitable growth. Which interdependencies matter most, how do you ensure the organization acts on them consistently and what proved most difficult in practice?