Global Marketing Category Manager

Role: Global Marketing Category Manager

Looking for a career that matters?

If you’re ready to have an impact in a career that makes a difference, Mölnlycke could be your next step. You’ll be helping to equip medical professionals around the world with solutions to improve outcomes for patients. And you’ll be developing yourself in a global environment with an inspirational culture, with lots of opportunities. All the while building a successful career, with real purpose.

In Wound Care at Mölnlycke, we help to prevent, manage and accelerate the healing of wounds.

You’re a team player who enjoys collaborating in a close-knit environment. But you like the security and opportunities of a large organisation behind you. As the Global Marketing Category Manager, you will own global product categories end‑to‑end, setting strategy, vision, and driving profitable growth through customer insight, innovation, and portfolio management. Translating clinical and economic needs into value‑driven solutions aligned with advanced wound care strategy.

The Global Marketing Category Manager will:

• Own the global product category strategy, roadmap, and value creation agenda.
• Lead full lifecycle management, including sustainability, expansion, portfolio optimisation, QMS compliance, and cost‑down initiatives.
• Act as commercial and customer lead whilst co‑leading cross‑functional development teams.
• Drive launch excellence from concept to global execution with Global Solutions partners.
• Translate market and customer insights into differentiated clinical and economic solutions.
• Shape evidence and claims strategy in partnership with CMPA and Regulatory Affairs.
• Own global pricing strategy and governance to maximise value and consistency.
• Ensure accurate, compliant product messaging and data, while building and sharing global category insights.

What You’ll Get

• Opportunity to make a meaningful impact in an organisation that improves customer and healthcare professional experiences.
• Competitive benefits package: annual bonus, pension plan, health insurance, and wellness contribution.
• Flexible working hours and a supportive hybrid work-from-home policy.
• A collaborative environment with friendly colleagues in a global organization that values openness, fairness, and teamwork.

What You Bring

• Educated to degree level, ideally within Marketing, Business or similar field
• Demonstrable senior marketing/sales experience in medical devices or life sciences
• Proven global marketing leadership, with local market execution experience
• Deep expertise in strategy, market insights, product lifecycle, and go‑to‑market
• Strong commercial, financial, regulatory, and product development acumen
• Previous experience with specific hands-on product management would be beneficial
• Influential leader able to prioritise and deliver in complex, cross‑functional environments
• Customer‑centric, resilient communicator, effective under pressure and ambiguity

Your work-life / Your work-life balance

• Hybrid working – 3 days office and 2 days home

Our approach to Diversity & Inclusion

We strive to have a diverse mix of people from different cultures, ages, geographies and genders, to reflect the world in which we operate and to facilitate innovative thinking across the business.

Please contact Matthew Davitt if you have any questions about the role or wish to discuss opportunities at Mölnlycke further

About Mölnlycke

Mölnlycke is a world-leading medical products and solutions company that equips healthcare professionals to achieve the best patient, clinical and economic outcomes.

Our business is organised in the four business areas Wound Care, Operating Room Solutions, Gloves and Antiseptics, where customer centricity, sustainability and digitalisation are at the heart of everything we do.

Mölnlycke employs around 8,700 people. The company headquarters are in Gothenburg, Sweden and we operate in more than 100 countries worldwide. Mölnlycke is a founding partner of GoCo Health Innovation City, a world-class innovation cluster for health, and in early 2025 our headquarters will move there.

Since 2007, the company has been part of Investor AB, an engaged owner of high-quality, global companies which was founded by the Wallenberg family in 1916. For more information, please visit www.molnlycke.com and www.molnlycke.com/careers