Westpreußenstraße 32-38, 47809 Krefeld

• You will define the strategic role and long‑term ambition of your category, supported by a clear multi‑year roadmap.
• By shaping the overall category architecture, you ensure a consistent assortment logic, price structure, and navigation across channels.
• In this role, you create scalable category blueprints and execution standards that enable efficient rollout across multiple countries.
• You help markets succeed by providing structured frameworks, guidance, and implementation support that drive adoption and consistency.
• Through regular reviews of key commercial indicators, you assess performance and translate insights into actionable improvements.
• You act as a senior category expert, working closely with Procurement, (Exclusive) Brand, Customer, Supply Chain, and country teams to secure strong cross-functional alignment.
• You strengthen category performance by ensuring a balanced product mix, improving SKU productivity, and creating opportunities for cross‑sell and trade‑up.
• You drive continuous improvement by testing new approaches, evaluating impact, and scaling proven concepts quickly and effectively.

• You hold a university degree in Business Economics or a related discipline.
• With extensive experience in category management, category development, or commercial strategy across multi‑country retail environments, you bring deep functional expertise.
• You combine strong analytical and conceptual skills with the ability to turn insights into scalable commercial models and actionable category frameworks.
• Having worked across markets before, you know how to drive structured implementation, build alignment, and secure adoption
• You excel in stakeholder management and can influence cross‑functional partners at different levels of the organization.
• You communicate fluently in English; additional European languages are a plus.

• Your freedom: pro rata mobile working and flexible working hours
• Your team: open, familiar, appreciative culture incl. team events
• Your environment: dynamic, innovative and agile working environment
• Your role: high level of personal responsibility and freedom to implement your ideas
• Your development: regular trainings and seminars in our academy
• Your four-legged friend: dogs are welcome in our offices (campus)
• Your health: numerous offers for preventive care, fitness, Yoga@work, etc.
• Your benefits: employee discounts, company leasing bikes, company pension plan and much more

Does the job advertisement sound interesting to you?

Then apply now! Together with your passion, we can make a big difference to make the coexistence of people and animals easier, better and happier.

This position will be filled at Fressnapf Tiernahrungs GmbH within the Fressnapf | Maxi Zoo Group.