General Manager - Central Europe

Edgewell is not just a company, but a vibrant global community of  6,800 visionaries, doers, and makers . Our family of over  25 personal care brands serves people in more than  50 countries . We are dedicated to infusing joyfulness into every aspect of our work. Our pledge goes beyond our products, with our fundamental value of  People First  guiding us to foster a diverse, inclusive, and respectful environment where every team member can flourish and celebrate our shared achievements.

General Manager Central Europe

Warsaw, Poland

Hybrid Working

Full Time, Permanent

Let’s Talk About You

You’re ambitious, but you want a career with purpose—we love that. You’re up for a challenge and ready to write the next chapter of your career story with a great group of encouraging colleagues. You want to make your mark and let your personality shine. Well, if you’re interested in our General Manager role, this might be your next step! We are looking for an experienced leader with strong management and transformation skills to join Edgewell Personal Care – a global consumer goods business with a portfolio of over 25 brands (Wilkinson Sword, Schick, Hawaiian Tropic, Carefree, Bulldog Skincare for Men, Jack Black and Cremo Grooming… just to name a few!).

Now, Let’s Get Down To Business

Reporting the Regional Vice President, this role is to provide strong level of strategic and operational leadership for the CEE business.

Leading a cross-functional team to execute our much-loved brands to the local markets to accelerate growth. Represent the company with major market customers, suppliers, distributors and external contacts and actively contributing to strategic direction and positive transformation. This position is also a key member of the European Leadership Team.

Here’s a sample of what you’ll get up to :

• Create a vision for the CEE Market to inspire & embark teams.
• To lead the complexity of multi-market, distributors, multi-currency set-up across CEE with full P&L responsibility.
• To lead and transform our distributor model including leading best practice to ensure winning relationships and execution.
• Define and implement strategic plans & customers strategy that successfully review, and step change the CEE business performance to growth in line with the EU average across Edgewell.
• Deliver sustainable growth & business objectives, with specific focus on : Net Sales, Operating Profit, Overhead Reduction & Market Share.
• Develop and maintain relationship with key clients, distributors and partners.
• To build best in class execution winning market share in multiple categories.
• Dotted line with Hub Finance, HR and Customer Service including negotiating and closing on major contracts.
• Accelerate the eCommerce business whilst changing our go-to-market model in Bricks & Mortar.
• Directly hierarchical responsibility of CEE Commercial Teams team. Total population size of all teammates of circa 45.
• Evolve and implement a reorganisation initiative to develop capabilities within an updated operating model.
• An active member of the European Leadership – driving the growth strategy across Europe.
• Leading all organisational projects across the market including system implementation and leading with effective change management and ultimately drive engagement.

Are You Ready to Show Us What You’ve Got?

This is a great opportunity for someone with significant Controllership experience ideally gained within a consumer goods / personal care / cosmetics industry. While your experience is of course important, we’re all about making useful things joyful, so we love when our prospective candidates are passionate about this too.

Here’s what we are looking for :