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Brain Effect

Nutritional supplements for mental performance

Trade Marketing Manager

Product MarketingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeBerlin, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Bring 2–5 years of experience in trade marketing, category management, product management, or retail-oriented brand marketing, ideally in FMCG, drugstores, grocery retail, or a DTC company with retail presence; at least 2 years must involve direct work with retail trade.
  • Understand the commercial side of retail, have contributed to listings or sell-in processes, and be confident working with trade margins, terms, and product calculations.
  • Be analytically strong, use Excel confidently, and independently evaluate and interpret sell-out data to derive concrete actions.
  • Have experience accompanying products or marketing activations from idea through execution and successfully bringing different stakeholders together.
  • Combine creative thinking with a hands-on mindset, work independently and in a structured way, and manage several parallel projects effectively; have an interest in health, supplements, and performance.
  • Communicate in German at negotiation-proficient level (at least C1) and in English at B2–C1 level.

Responsibilities

  • Develop creative marketing measures for retail partners, including secondary placements, point-of-sale materials, retail media, and influencer activations that measurably increase sell-through.
  • Identify market opportunities and develop new product concepts with the product team; accompany launches from idea through implementation, coordinating internal teams and external partners.
  • Prepare product and promotion calculations, evaluate trade margins, commercial terms, and contribution margins, and ensure the commercial viability of initiatives.
  • Analyze sell-out data, product rotations, and campaign results; derive concrete recommendations and identify growth opportunities.
  • Support the B2B team in preparing annual meetings and innovation presentations, and develop persuasive sell-in stories for retail partners.
  • Regularly visit points of sale, analyze competitors and the company's shelf presence, and develop ideas to improve the retail presentation.

About the Company

Brain Effect

Nutritional supplements for mental performance

BrainEffect creates nutritional supplements and functional foods in Berlin to support mental and physical performance. Its products use science-backed natural ingredients across vitamins, minerals, prebiotics, probiotics, collagen, proteins, and sleep aids, with core offerings like FOCUS, SLEEP, and DAILY GUT that address sleep, gut health, focus, energy, and recovery. It sells through its own online store and more than 2,500 retailers, including dm, Budni, and Amazon; founder Fabian Foelsch remains CEO, and Schwabe Group owns a majority stake but BrainEffect operates independently. The goal is to expand internationally with evidence-based products that help people optimize mental performance and well-being in daily life and sports.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Berlin, Germany
Founded
2015

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