Managing Director, Cozy Heaven

Everest Commerce Group; Amsterdam; Vor Ort; EUR 80.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Cozy Heaven, a premium bedding brand part of Everest, seeks a Managing Director to own P&L, grow the business and drive a premium customer experience. You will lead pricing, retention, performance marketing and new channels across DACH, while aligning with Everest’s AI platform to accelerate growth.

This co-owner level role requires strong financial discipline, senior leadership, and the ability to turn plans into a scalable, cash-efficient brand. Amsterdam base with Germany exposure.

Qualifikationen

• Real responsibility for the result in an inventory-led business.
• Improved how a consumer brand was seen and what its customers experienced.
• Used AI and automation to improve real workflows and real decisions, not to run experiments.
• Built focus and an execution rhythm in an imperfect operating environment, with incomplete data and competing priorities.
• Made the hard calls on people and managed a high-output team.
• Grew the business and the margin together, and you can explain how you did that.
• Cash, stock, purchasing, margin and performance marketing, with the trade-offs between them held in one head.
• Professional fluency in both German and English. The market is German and the group works in English.

Aufgaben

• Own the P&L and profitable growth, including the operating plan, financial performance, pricing, retention, performance marketing, partnerships and new channels across DACH.
• Responsible for the brand and customer experience, strengthening Cozy Heaven’s premium positioning while improving the full journey from acquisition and delivery to repeat purchase and advocacy.
• Own cash, inventory and operations, including purchasing, working capital, suppliers, quality, freight and fulfilment, making the right trade-offs between growth, availability and capital efficiency.
• Lead the team and operating rhythm, across internal employees, agencies and external specialists, while driving the adoption of technology, automation and AI together with Everest.
• Help build the Cozy Heaven playbook, turning what works here into systems and lessons that can improve future Everest acquisitions.

Jobbeschreibung

Cozy Heaven is a German premium bedding company with proven demand, strong products and the potential to become an enduring consumer brand. It operates as part of Everest, an AI-native commerce group.

We are looking for a Managing Director to lead it. This is a co-owner-level operating role with full authority over the P&L and full accountability for the results. The role suits an operator who has already carried meaningful responsibility for a business and who wants the authority, accountability and upside that come with being the person ultimately responsible for a company. A role with this much responsibility is not a place to learn how to run a business.

The mission

Build Cozy Heaven into a premium, sustainably profitable and independently operated consumer brand. The quality of growth matters as much as its speed. Success means stronger margins, disciplined cash and inventory management, excellent customer experience, growing repeat business and a brand that increases in value over time. You will not be doing it alone. Everest’s AI platform and technology give you tools to execute faster and decide better than a company this size normally can.

What you will own

• You will own the P&L and profitable growth, including the operating plan, financial performance, pricing, retention, performance marketing, partnerships and new channels across DACH.

• You are responsible for the brand and customer experience, strengthening Cozy Heaven’s premium positioning while improving the full journey from acquisition and delivery to repeat purchase and advocacy.

• You will own cash, inventory and operations, including purchasing, working capital, suppliers, quality, freight and fulfilment, making the right trade-offs between growth, availability and capital efficiency.

• You will lead the team and operating rhythm, across internal employees, agencies and external specialists, while driving the adoption of technology, automation and AI together with Everest.

• You will help build the Cozy Heaven playbook, turning what works here into systems and lessons that can improve future Everest acquisitions.

How you will work

You do not need to be the best specialist in every function. You need to understand the work, make the trade-offs, choose and lead strong specialists and take responsibility for the total result. This requires you to be a leading doer. Especially at the beginning, you should feel comfortable going into detail yourself when something matters. Responsibility does not stop because something sits outside your job description.

The first 90 days

First 30 days

Establish one factual view of the business: the economics, customers, products, inventory, suppliers, marketing, team and the major operational bottlenecks. Confirm decision rights, assess the existing team and agencies, and identify the few priorities that matter most.

By day 60

A rolling cash and inventory plan is in use and you are seeing the results of the decisions you have made. The commercial calendar, pricing, and testing rhythm are clear, and the most important customer, fulfillment, and supply-chain projects have clear owners and measurable progress.

By day 90

Your operating rhythm works. The necessary team changes are underway, priorities are clear and Cozy Heaven is executing one coherent plan. From there the objective is to keep compounding: a better company, stronger economics and a more valuable brand.

The opportunity

We believe the person responsible for building a company should participate meaningfully in the value they create. That is why this role combines a competitive base salary with real ownership in Cozy Heaven.

• Salary: €80,000 to €120,000 per year

• Equity: 10% to 20%

• Location: Amsterdam, with regular time in Germany

• Seniority: Senior

• Commitment: Full-time

This role can grow beyond Cozy Heaven. Proven success here can lead to broader responsibility and greater upside within Everest Group.

You have already run a business, or the part of one that mattered most.

Founder, Managing Director, General Manager, commercially strong COO or business-unit leader in DTC or e-commerce. The title matters less than the weight you carried. You are commercially sharp, financially disciplined and comfortable in the detail. You bring structure without bureaucracy, you communicate directly and you finish what you start.

What you should be able to show us

• Real responsibility for the result in an inventory-led business, where stock and cash decisions changed the outcome.

• You improved how a consumer brand was seen and what its customers experienced.

• You used AI and automation to improve real workflows and real decisions, not to run experiments.

• You built focus and an execution rhythm in an imperfect operating environment, with incomplete data and competing priorities.

• You made the hard calls on people and managed a high-output team.

• You grew the business and the margin together, and you can explain how you did that.

• Cash, stock, purchasing, margin and performance marketing, with the trade-offs between them held in one head.

• Professional fluency in both German and English. The market is German and the group works in English.