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Karo Healthcare

Sells branded medicines and self-care products

Trade & Shopper Marketing Manager

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/15/2026
No salary listed
Mid
Warsaw, Poland
Hybrid
Growth & MarketingMarketing Generalist & Management

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 3 years of experience in trade marketing, shopper marketing, customer marketing, key account management, sales, or digital marketing within FMCG, Beauty, OTC, Pharma, Healthcare, Cosmetics, or Retail.
  • Strong interest in shopper activation, customer marketing, and hands-on commercial execution across pharmacy and retail channels.
  • Ability to work with market, customer, competitor, sell-out, or campaign performance data.
  • Strong collaboration skills and confidence working with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Field Force teams, agencies, and external partners.
  • Fluent Polish, with the ability to create sharp, locally relevant customer-facing materials and claims.
  • Strong English skills for collaboration in an international environment.
  • Willingness to travel for customer meetings and market visits across Poland; a driving license is required.
Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement trade and shopper marketing activations across pharmacy, healthcare, personal-care, and retail channels.
  • Translate brand and commercial strategies into customer-specific activation plans for pharma and retail clients, improving visibility, recommendation, and conversion.
  • Create, adapt, and optimize POS materials, pharmacy and retail tools, training content, and activation assets for offline and online channels.
  • Drive digital trade marketing initiatives, including e-pharmacy visibility, digital POS assets, retail media, and customer platform activations.
  • Work with Sales, Key Account Management, Brand Marketing, Finance, Field Force teams, and external agencies to deliver in-market execution.
  • Support customer meetings, sales cycle meetings, and joint business planning with activation concepts, presentations, and practical trade marketing recommendations.
  • Analyze market, customer, competitor, and sell-out data to identify opportunities across pharmacy and retail environments.
  • Monitor promotion effectiveness, in-store execution, and shopper activation results, using insights to recommend improvements.
  • Manage trade marketing budgets by channel and customer, ensuring smart allocation, clear tracking, and ROI-focused decision-making.
  • Contribute to the rollout of scalable best practices across Poland, helping build consistent and effective execution across markets.
Desired Qualifications
  • Digital or e-commerce experience, especially in e-pharmacy, retail media, or online trade activation.

About the company

Karo Healthcare develops and markets branded medicines and personal care products for everyday health needs, including skin care, foot treatments and supplements. Its portfolio combines pharmacy brands such as E45 and Lamisil with wellness products sold under Nutravita. The business earns revenue from sales of its own brands through pharmacies, retailers, online stores and healthcare distributors, while its teams manage product development and commercial execution across markets. Its medicines include over-the-counter and prescription products, alongside cosmetics and other consumer health products. Founded in 1987, Karo Healthcare is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

N/A

Founded

1987

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What believers are saying

  • April 2026 added ACO, Biodermal, Emolium and Iwostin to Karo through its completed purchase from Perrigo.
  • Karo's Everything Counts Programme links employee financial rewards to company success.
  • June 2026 expanded Karo's nail fungus licensing partnership into China's cross-border ecommerce channel.

What critics are saying

  • March 2026 approval of Karo's ACO purchase required divesting Nordic Locobase rights, limiting the brands retained after consolidation.
  • Karo depends on contract manufacturers and third-party logistics providers, placing production and distribution execution with external partners.
  • Karo's Warsaw Emolium brand manager role lasts 18 months as parental leave cover.

What makes Karo Healthcare unique

  • Karo organises cross-functional squads around individual brands or categories, putting decisions with the teams managing them.
  • Karo runs Amazon and direct consumer marketing with its own account, performance marketing and creative production teams.
  • Selected Karo medicines carry Sweden's Välvald pharmacy label, requiring manufacturing-site disclosure and responsible sourcing controls.

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Hybrid Work Options

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