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Brain Effect

Nutritional supplements for mental performance

Senior Key Account Manager - Retail Drugstore + Export

Account ManagementUpdated on Nov 9
Full-timeBerlin, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Several years of experience in key account management or consumer-goods sales, ideally in drugstore or food retail.
  • Experience independently negotiating with major retail partners, winning new product listings, and understanding the relationships among commercial terms, discounts, and margins.
  • Ability to persuade different stakeholders, conduct negotiations confidently, and build long-term customer relationships.
  • Analytical and entrepreneurial approach, ability to work independently and set priorities, and motivation to develop international sales.
  • Verbal negotiation-level German and good English skills.
  • Experience with retail partners such as dm and Rossmann and with the Austrian and/or Swiss markets is desirable.
  • Willingness to travel for customer appointments and trade fairs approximately 25–35% of working time.

Responsibilities

  • Develop strategic customer relationships in Austria and, prospectively, Switzerland, and grow business with existing and new retail partners.
  • Identify attractive sales opportunities, win new product listings, and develop the company's presence in national and international drugstore and food retail.
  • Prepare annual business reviews and commercial-terms negotiations, lead them independently, and secure economically attractive agreements.
  • Calculate commercial-terms models, assess margins, and monitor the profitability of customer relationships.
  • Analyze market and consumer trends, identify growth opportunities, and develop sales arguments for retail partners.
  • Prepare revenue forecasts, plan budgets, analyze sales metrics, and ensure structured execution of sales measures.
  • Work closely with the Head of Sales and the trade marketing, product development, and logistics teams to launch new products successfully in retail.
  • Support the development of additional European export markets and contribute experience to the development of new sales structures.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with retail partners such as dm and Rossmann and with the Austrian and/or Swiss markets.

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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