Supply Chain Development Manager

AI overview

Drive operational excellence and transformational change across Karo's international supply chain with a focus on cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement.

Karo Healthcare, a dynamic and growing personal-care retail company, is all about making smart choices for everyday healthcare. With a wide-ranging portfolio across seven categories including medical products, we own and sell over 80 brands in about 90 countries. Our portfolio includes such brands as E45, Pevaryl, Lamisil, Nutravita, Decubal and many others. Our core belief in empowering people to make intelligent health decisions drives our growth strategy, blending organic expansion and M&A.

Join us at Karo Healthcare on our exciting journey. We're currently looking for a Supply Chain Development Manager for our office in Stockholm.

What’s in it for you?

Join a growing international business where your ideas directly shape how our supply chain evolves. You will work in a fast-paced, hands-on environment with the opportunity to lead transformation projects, collaborate across multiple countries, and develop your career within a modern, expanding Operations organisation. This is a role for someone who wants real impact, real ownership, and real growth.

What you’ll be doing

As our Supply Chain Development Manager, you will drive change and operational excellence across Karo’s international supply chain. You will work cross-functionally to make sure Logistics, Planning, Sourcing, and Master Data operate in sync—especially during periods of growth, integration, and transformation.

You will:

  • Lead cross-functional supply chain development initiatives, including brand integrations and portfolio rationalisation
  • Drive end-to-end planning improvements and process optimisation across multiple sourcing sites and countries
  • Support complex transformation projects to strengthen scalability and operational performance
  • Ensure strong alignment between Logistics, Planning, Sourcing, and Master Data by defining ways of working and closing process gaps
  • Act as a key partner to Planning and Operations leadership, providing insights, data analysis and recommendations
  • Champion continuous improvement and embed best practices across the supply chain organisation

Requirements

  • Preferably an academic degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Logistics, Engineering, or equivalent
  • Minimum 10 years of experience in supply planning within a complex environment—pharmaceutical or FMCG with multi-country, multi-site sourcing preferred
  • Skilled in common IT tools (Microsoft Office) and ERP/planning systems; experience with IFS and So99+ is an advantage
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Confident, persuasive, and capable of motivating cross-functional teams
  • Excellent written and spoken English

Benefits

  • Opportunity to create, grow, and encourage
  • Apart from a competitive salary pack, there are lots of growth opportunities to meet your personal ambitions
  • Flexible schedule and life work balance
  • Responsibility for exciting and challenging projects that have a direct, visible impact on our customers and the industry
  • Very positive work environment in a young, international, and motivated team
  • Start-up spirit while being a part of the large international organization with strong values

 

  

Karo Healthcare has a Diverse & Inclusive environment. We are looking for qualified candidates irrespective of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, disability or age.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: Flexible schedule and life work balance
  • Positive work environment: Very positive work environment in a young, international, and motivated team

Our purpose is to offer smart choices for everyday healthcare and we are passionately working towards realising our vision of Karo becoming a pan-European leader in everyday healthcare. With this ambitious growth strategy, we are constantly scouting for new talents to join our existing dynamic and high-paced Karo team. Embracing diverse perspectives and backgrounds is a part of our identity, and an equal representation of women and men in management positions. If you want to work for a dynamic high-growth company that is flat, non-bureaucratic, and that empowers colleagues to make their own decisions through the trust placed in their capabilities and alignment to our strategic goals and vision – check out our current vacancies.

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