Global Commercial Manager Commercial Planning & Business Development (m/f/d)

Standort Solingen, Deutschland

Tasks and responsibilities

• Lead the development of business cases for new initiatives, including market entry strategies, channel expansions and portfolio plays.
• Translate strategic opportunities into financially sound plans, supported by robust modelling, sensitivity analyses, and clearly articulated assumptions.
• Support the creation and refinement of global commercial roadmaps that drive sustainable revenue, growth, and profitability.
• Own the annual commercial planning cycle and support it across all regions and markets.
• Ensure alignment of market-specific plans with global strategy, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities.
• Facilitate decision-making by providing high-quality commercial insights and synthesized strategic recommendations.

• Develop and maintain market scorecards, integrating KPIs, competitive analysis, channel performance, and customer development metrics.
• Conduct regular commercial performance checks to identify trends, outliers, and improvement levers.
• Support global markets with analytical insights that enhance forecasting quality and commercial execution.

• Lead channel profitability planning and scenario modelling across owned and third-party channels.
• Create customer development roadmaps in collaboration with regional teams, ensuring consistent, scalable global frameworks.
• Contribute to shaping a holistic distribution strategy aligned with brand, commercial, and financial objectives.

Your Profile

• Master’s degree in business economic or similar study.
• Proven track record in (inhouse) consulting, corporate strategy, or business development, ideally in a global consumer goods environment.
• Strong financial modelling skills and deep analytical orientation to build business cases.
• High comfort level with financial metrics, forecasting, KPIs, and performance management.
• Experience working with global stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, influence without authority, and drive alignment across regions.
• Solid commercial understanding of consumer goods, including channels, pricing, customers, and distribution.
• Self-starter mindset: proactive, curious, adaptable, and able to operate in fast-moving, evolving environments.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of creating clear storylines and executive-ready presentations.

What We Offer

• Flexible working hours
• Mobile working possible, coordination takes place within the team
• Company kindergarten
• Company restaurant
• Bicycle leasing
• Parking spaces for employees
• Discounts on ZWILLING products
• Permanent employment contracts

Standort: Solingen, Deutschland
Arbeitsverhältnis: Unbefristet, Vollzeit
Unternehmensbereich: ZWILLING
Berufsfeld: Vertrieb / Sales
Karrierelevel: Professionals & Berufserfahrene
Referenzcode: 908

Employee equality is important for us. Severely disabled people are given special consideration in their applications in accordance with SGB IX if they are equally qualified.
We welcome applications from people regardless of their cultural and social background, age, religion, ideology or sexual identity. We look forward to getting to know you.
Please send us your application, stating your salary requirements and earliest possible starting date, using our online application form.