Senior Manager, Retail Integration, EMEA

WS Audiology Denmark A/S; Lillerød; On-site; DKK 822,000 - 1,121,000; Full time

Job summary

WS Audiology Denmark A/S is seeking a Senior Retail Integration Manager to drive end-to-end integration programmes across multiple EMEA countries. You will lead playbooks, roadmaps and milestones, coordinating with local GMs and M&A teams to ensure timely delivery and business continuity.

The role demands hands-on project leadership, strong stakeholder management and the ability to influence across a matrix organisation while maintaining a sharp commercial focus.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in retail, ideally in a complex or international organisation.
• Proven track record in business transformation, change management or integration across multiple countries or complex markets.
• Strong project/programme management skills and a hands-on approach to delivery.
• Experience working effectively in a matrix organisation and influencing without direct authority.
• Strong commercial mindset, with a track record of delivering against targets and improving profitability.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end integration programmes across multiple EMEA countries, from planning through execution.
• Develop and maintain the EMEA Retail Integration Playbook and integration roadmaps.
• Identify and prioritise key milestones, ensuring strong focus on timely and successful delivery.
• Support the integration of acquired businesses while maintaining business continuity and operational performance.
• Partner with M&A teams and local General Managers during due diligence and integration planning.
• Assess integration risks, opportunities and expected financial contributions.
• Work closely with WSA Group functions to support business cases and ensure delivery against integration targets.
• Bring together local organisations and Group functions, creating clarity around roles, responsibilities and priorities.

Skills

Retail experience

Change management

Project management

Matrix organisation

Stakeholder management

Job description

Driven by the ambition to expand consumer access and create a consistent, high-quality retail experience across EMEA, WSA is continuing to strengthen and develop its retail organisation.

As Retail Integration Senior Manager, EMEA, you will play a key role in making newly acquired retail businesses part of WSA. You will lead integration programmes across countries, bringing together local teams and Group functions to ensure a smooth transition, business continuity and delivery against agreed targets.

This is a highly hands‑on role, combining strong project and programme management with the ability to navigate complexity, influence stakeholders and turn plans into results.

This role is open across multiple locations in EMEA.

What you will do

Retail Integration & Delivery

• Lead end-to-end integration programmes across multiple EMEA countries, from planning through execution.
• Develop and maintain the EMEA Retail Integration Playbook and integration roadmaps.
• Identify and prioritise key milestones, ensuring strong focus on timely and successful delivery.
• Support the integration of acquired businesses while maintaining business continuity and operational performance.

M&A & Business Planning

• Partner with M&A teams and local General Managers during due diligence and integration planning.
• Assess integration risks, opportunities and expected financial contributions.
• Work closely with WSA Group functions to support business cases and ensure delivery against integration targets.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Bring together local organisations and Group functions, creating clarity around roles, responsibilities and priorities.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and influence effectively in a matrix environment without direct line management.
• Simplify complex situations and communicate clearly to keep teams aligned and moving forward.

What you bring

Experience

• Significant experience in retail, ideally in a complex or international organisation.
• Proven track record in business transformation, change management or integration across multiple countries or complex markets.
• Strong project/programme management skills and a hands‑on approach to delivery.
• Experience working effectively in a matrix organisation and influencing without direct authority.
• Strong commercial mindset, with a track record of delivering against targets and improving profitability.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication and problem‑solving skills.

Personal competencies

• Delivery-focused, pragmatic and resilient.
• Curious and comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity.
• Able to simplify complex topics and create clarity and focus.
• Collaborative and confident working with senior stakeholders across different countries and cultures.
• Flexible in approach and able to adapt to different ways of working.

Who we are

At WSA, we provide innovative hearing aids and hearing health services.

Together with our 12,000 colleagues in 130 countries, we invite you to help unlock human potential by bringing back hearing for millions of people around the world.

With us, you will become part of a truly global company where we care for one another, welcome diversity and celebrate our successes.

Sounds wonderful? We can't wait to hear from you.

WSA is an equal-opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive employee experience for all. Regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, disability, military or veteran status we firmly believe that our work is at its best when everyone feels free to be their most authentic self.

Department

Sales

Locations

Zoetermeer, Netherlands, Lynge, Copenhagen Region, Denmark, Chester, United Kingdom

Employment type

Full-time