Director Traded Goods

Demant Polska; Denmark; On-site; DKK 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Interacoustics, part of the Demant Group, seeks a Director of Traded Goods to own the global Traded Goods portfolio within Diagnostics. You will drive strategy, profitability, and lifecycle management in a matrix, cross-functional setup, collaborating with Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, QA/RA, and Finance from Middelfart.

The role requires a strong commercial mindset, technical understanding, and fluency in English, with international travel and on-site presence in

Qualifications

• Hold a relevant degree within business, engineering, life sciences, or a related field.
• Experience from international B2B organisations within MedTech, healthcare, diagnostics, life sciences, or other regulated industries.
• Experience within product management, category management, portfolio management, sourcing, commercial development, or related disciplines.
• Possess strong commercial acumen and a track record of driving growth, profitability, and portfolio development.
• Are comfortable working with technical products and translating market needs into commercially attractive solutions.
• Thrive in a matrix organisation and excel at building relationships and influencing stakeholders across functions, cultures, and geographies.
• Have experience working closely with quality, regulatory, or compliance-related processes.
• Are fluent in English and comfortable operating in a global environment.
• Travel is expected to be part of the role to support collaboration across locations.
• On-site presence in Middelfart is expected as part of the role to support close collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the traded goods strategy, portfolio roadmap, and annual operating plans with clear growth and profitability targets.
• Build business cases for portfolio investments and expansion opportunities while ensuring strong commercial performance and profitability.
• Lead global go-to-market execution and ensure launch readiness for traded goods introductions and lifecycle changes.
• Drive business performance reviews and growth initiatives, including portfolio expansion, new market opportunities, bundling, and channel activation.
• Drive effective stakeholder management across a complex, cross-functional organisation by building strong relationships, aligning priorities, and ensuring clear communication and collaboration across teams and leadership levels.
• Identify, evaluate, and develop strategic supplier and partner relationships in close collaboration with Supply Chain and QA/RA.
• Ensure compliance with applicable quality, regulatory, and documentation requirements while supporting global product availability.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Commercial acumen

Product management

Education

Relevant degree (business/engineering/life sciences)

Job description

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Are you passionate about building commercially successful product portfolios in an international MedTech environment? Do you thrive in managing stakeholders across a complex organisation and translating technical and clinical insights into strong commercial opportunities?

Then you might be our new Director, Traded Goods within Consumables & Traded Goods, a newly created position with significant visibility and impact across our global organisation.

Your impact as our new Director, Traded Goods

In this newly established role, you will take ownership of our global Traded Goods portfolio, ensuring a strong and profitable portfolio that complements the wider Diagnostics offering.

Operating in a global setup, you will work closely with Product Management, Marketing, Sales Companies, Supply Chain, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, and Finance to drive portfolio growth, commercial performance, supplier partnerships, and successful go-to-market execution.

Drive portfolio strategy, growth, and commercial performance

Your key responsibilities include:

• Define and execute the traded goods strategy, portfolio roadmap, and annual operating plans with clear growth and profitability targets.
• Build business cases for portfolio investments and expansion opportunities while ensuring strong commercial performance and profitability.
• Lead global go-to-market execution and ensure launch readiness for traded goods introductions and lifecycle changes.
• Drive business performance reviews and growth initiatives, including portfolio expansion, new market opportunities, bundling, and channel activation.
• Drive effective stakeholder management across a complex, cross-functional organisation by building strong relationships, aligning priorities, and ensuring clear communication and collaboration across teams and leadership levels. Apply strong leadership skills to shape the future organisational setup, set the strategic direction, and drive alignment for Traded Goods.
• Identify, evaluate, and develop strategic supplier and partner relationships in close collaboration with Supply Chain and QA/RA.
• Ensure compliance with applicable quality, regulatory, and documentation requirements while supporting global product availability.

Get to know your new team and manager

You will join a specialised team within Consumables & Traded Goods, working together to develop and grow a strategically important business area. The role does not currently have direct people management responsibility, although the mid-term intent is to grow the domain why experience leading teams, projects, and/or cross-functional initiatives would be an advantage.

The role reports to the General Manager of Consumables and Traded Goods, Rie Søbye, and offers broad exposure to stakeholders across the Diagnostics organization globally as well as the Diagnostics Executive Leadership Team.

We are an ambitious and collaborative team that values trust, ownership, curiosity, and knowledge sharing. We believe the best results are created through strong partnerships and diverse perspectives.

A commercially driven profile with technical understanding

To succeed in this role, you combine strong commercial acumen with a technical mindset, stakeholder managment and the ability to navigate a complex and highly regulated environment.

We imagine that you:

• Hold a relevant degree within business, engineering, life sciences, or a related field.
• Bring experience from international B2B organisations within MedTech, healthcare, diagnostics, life sciences, or other regulated industries.
• Have experience within product management, category management, portfolio management, sourcing, commercial development, or related disciplines.
• Possess strong commercial acumen and a track record of driving growth, profitability, and portfolio development.
• Are comfortable working with technical products and translating market needs into commercially attractive solutions.
• Thrive in a matrix organisation and excel at building relationships and influencing stakeholders across functions, cultures, and geographies.
• Have experience working closely with quality, regulatory, or compliance-related processes.
• Are fluent in English and comfortable operating in a global environment.
• Travel is expected to be part of the role to support collaboration across locations.
• On-site presence in Middelfart is expected as part of the role to support close collaboration.

Join us in shaping the future of Consumables & Traded Goods

This is a unique opportunity to step into a newly created role and help shape the direction of our global Traded Goods business. You will have the opportunity to influence strategy, portfolio decisions, supplier partnerships, and commercial growth while working closely with stakeholders across our global organisation.

Our ambition is to start our new colleague in this position 1st of November.

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) and we are committed to creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome applications from alle qualified candidates regardless of ethnic background, personality, age, gender, and education. Diversity is part of our cultural DNA. Women in STEM areas are particularly encouraged to apply, as Demant supports United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 on gender equality.

About us

Consumables and Traded Goods are a commercially driven business area within Diagnostics, focused on creating a strong portfolio of recurring-use products and selected third-party solutions.

The business area includes brands such as RadioEar and Sanibel and plays an important role in supporting clinics, hearing care professionals, hospitals, and distributors with reliable products that help meet every-day diagnostic and patient care needs

Middelfart, DK, 5500

Interacoustics

Interacoustics is a world leading diagnostic solutions provider in the field of hearing and balance assessment. We design, manufacture and sell products across the whole audiological spectrum, from small portable devices to full clinical instruments. Our products are sold in more than 100 countries through our extensive network of sales companies and distributors.

Interacoustics employs more than 200people at the head office in Middelfart, more than 500 worldwide and is among the world's leading suppliers of audiological equipment.

Interacoustics is part of the Demant Group. This group of international companies develops, manufactures and markets a wide variety of technological solutions, ranging from state-of-the art digital hearing instruments and assistive listening devices to revolutionary new diagnostic systems.