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At Essity, we're committed to improving well-being through leading hygiene and health solutions. At our manufacturing site in Askersund, we produce advanced wound care products under the Sorbact and Cutimed brands, supporting healthcare professionals and patients around the world.

We are now looking for an experienced Operations Manager to join our site leadership team and play a key role in shaping the future of one of the most strategically important product areas within our Health & Medical business. This is an opportunity to lead operational excellence, drive cultural transformation, and make a lasting impact on a site that continues to receive significant investment and attention within Essity's global manufacturing network.

About the Role

As Operations Manager, you will be responsible for leading the manufacturing organization and ensuring outstanding performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People.

You will lead a team consisting of 2 Department Leaders and one Maintenance Leader, with overall responsibility for approximately 60 employees at the Askersund site. As a member of the Site Leadership Team, you will work closely with colleagues across Quality, Logistics, HR, Finance, Projects and EHS to deliver business results while developing a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and employee engagement.

This role is critical to the site's ongoing development and transformation journey. You will have the opportunity to strengthen manufacturing excellence, improve productivity, increase equipment efficiency, reduce losses and waste, and further develop a high-performing organization capable of meeting future business demands.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Operations organization, including Production and Maintenance

• Deliver performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People

• Drive manufacturing excellence and continuous improvement initiatives

• Create clear targets, accountability and performance follow-up throughout the organization

• Improve productivity, equipment efficiency and waste reduction

• Build a culture of engagement, ownership and continuous learning

• Ensure compliance with quality, regulatory and operational requirements

• Contribute actively as a member of the Site Leadership Team

• Manage operational budgets and drive sustainable business results

• Partner with stakeholders across the site and the wider Essity manufacturing network

Who You Are

You are a strong operational leader who combines a structured approach to manufacturing performance with an engaging and empowering leadership style.

You know how to create results through others by setting clear expectations, building accountability and developing leaders and teams. You have experience driving change and understand that sustainable operational improvements require both robust systems and strong people engagement.

You bring energy, urgency and a hands-on approach to solving challenges while maintaining a long-term perspective on organizational development.

We Are Looking For Someone Who Has

• Several years of experience in a senior manufacturing or operations leadership role

• Experience leading managers and larger operational organizations

• Proven success in driving operational performance and continuous improvement

• Strong knowledge of Manufacturing Excellence, TPM, World Class Manufacturing or similar operational frameworks

• Experience from high-volume manufacturing environments

• Background from FMCG, food production, process industry, consumer goods or similar industries is highly valued

• Experience managing budgets and business performance

• Strong stakeholder management and change leadership skills

• Fluent English, both written and spoken

• We welcome candidates who are fluent in Swedish as well as international candidates. If you do not currently speak Swedish, we expect a strong interest in learning the language and becoming comfortable communicating in a Swedish-speaking work environment.

It is considered an advantage if you also have

• Experience from regulated manufacturing environments, such as medical devices, healthcare products or pharmaceuticals

• Experience leading organizations through transformation and cultural change

At Essity, we're committed to improving well-being through leading hygiene and health solutions. At our manufacturing site in Askersund, we produce advanced wound care products under the Sorbact and Cutimed brands, supporting healthcare professionals and patients around the world.

We are now looking for an experienced Operations Manager to join our site leadership team and play a key role in shaping the future of one of the most strategically important product areas within our Health & Medical business. This is an opportunity to lead operational excellence, drive cultural transformation, and make a lasting impact on a site that continues to receive significant investment and attention within Essity's global manufacturing network.

About the Role

As Operations Manager, you will be responsible for leading the manufacturing organization and ensuring outstanding performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People.

You will lead a team consisting of 2 Department Leaders and one Maintenance Leader, with overall responsibility for approximately 60 employees at the Askersund site. As a member of the Site Leadership Team, you will work closely with colleagues across Quality, Logistics, HR, Finance, Projects and EHS to deliver business results while developing a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and employee engagement.

This role is critical to the site's ongoing development and transformation journey. You will have the opportunity to strengthen manufacturing excellence, improve productivity, increase equipment efficiency, reduce losses and waste, and further develop a high-performing organization capable of meeting future business demands.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Operations organization, including Production and Maintenance

• Deliver performance across Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and People

• Drive manufacturing excellence and continuous improvement initiatives

• Create clear targets, accountability and performance follow-up throughout the organization

• Improve productivity, equipment efficiency and waste reduction

• Build a culture of engagement, ownership and continuous learning

• Ensure compliance with quality, regulatory and operational requirements

• Contribute actively as a member of the Site Leadership Team

• Manage operational budgets and drive sustainable business results

• Partner with stakeholders across the site and the wider Essity manufacturing network

Who You Are

You are a strong operational leader who combines a structured approach to manufacturing performance with an engaging and empowering leadership style.

You know how to create results through others by setting clear expectations, building accountability and developing leaders and teams. You have experience driving change and understand that sustainable operational improvements require both robust systems and strong people engagement.

You bring energy, urgency and a hands-on approach to solving challenges while maintaining a long-term perspective on organizational development.

We Are Looking For Someone Who Has

• Several years of experience in a senior manufacturing or operations leadership role

• Experience leading managers and larger operational organizations

• Proven success in driving operational performance and continuous improvement

• Strong knowledge of Manufacturing Excellence, TPM, World Class Manufacturing or similar operational frameworks

• Experience from high-volume manufacturing environments

• Background from FMCG, food production, process industry, consumer goods or similar industries is highly valued

• Experience managing budgets and business performance

• Strong stakeholder management and change leadership skills

• Fluent English, both written and spoken

• We welcome candidates who are fluent in Swedish as well as international candidates. If you do not currently speak Swedish, we expect a strong interest in learning the language and becoming comfortable communicating in a Swedish-speaking work environment.

It is considered an advantage if you also have

• Experience from regulated manufacturing environments, such as medical devices, healthcare products or pharmaceuticals

• Experience leading organizations through transformation and cultural change

About Swedish Nutra

Swedish Nutra is a Malmö-based family company and one of the Nordics’ leading manufacturers of premium liquid vitamins and nutritional supplements. We offer private label/white label production and are the makers of the Swedish Collagen and Swedish Nutra brands, sold in over 37 countries worldwide. We’re a fast-growing business with global distribution, a warm and international team, and an enterprising environment where people get real room to develop and grow.

About the role

We are seeking a Chief Operating Officer (COO) to take over the day-to-day leadership of Swedish Nutra. This is a pivotal role designed to free our founder-CEO to focus on growth, while you build and lead the operational engine that will scale our business. You will be the number-one on-site point of contact for the entire team, working full-time from our Malmö headquarters.

What you'll own

As COO, you will be responsible for the full company P&L and all approximately 30 staff, leading through the management layer. Your mandate will grow in defined phases, ultimately encompassing all day-to-day responsibilities currently held by the CEO. This includes:

• Day-to-day leadership of the company: Full P&L ownership and leadership of all staff through the management team.
• The management team: Building and leading the Production Manager, Head of Sales, and Marketing Manager (searches currently in motion), and completing the team with key-account and e-commerce hires. Final say on management-level appointments remains with the owners.
• Production: Setting targets and holding the Production Manager accountable for output, quality, supply, and cost.
• The technical spine: Ensuring quality assurance and regulatory compliance across all export markets, maintaining GMP/HACCP certification, overseeing the product development pipeline, and managing inventory and supply end-to-end through a monthly S&OP rhythm.
• The commercial engine: Guiding the Head of Sales and Marketing Manager to execute the retail and DTC agenda set with the CEO, including expanding from exclusive-distributor coverage to include direct retail relationships.
• DTC and marketplace channels: Overseeing Amazon EU/UK through an accountable Amazon specialist, and the US Amazon/Shopify/DTC business, with investment pace agreed with the CEO.
• Systems and process: Transforming ad-hoc, founder-held execution into documented, repeatable processes and stage-appropriate tooling, and extracting institutional knowledge into the organization through SOPs.
• The people function during ramp-up: Managing performance, development, and hiring below management level, with in-house recruitment support, until a dedicated HR lead is justified.
• The automation agenda: Supporting automation across the business, ensuring new processes across every department are designed to be automation-ready.
• The operating rhythm: Establishing KPIs, budgets, forecasting, cash-flow discipline, running weekly management meetings, and providing monthly reporting to the owners.

What we're looking for

We are seeking a proven general manager with real operational depth and a scale-up temperament. While few candidates will be equally strong across all areas, we prioritize in this order: proven general management, depth across quality, regulatory, product development, and supply, and hands-on commercial-growth experience. Running a factory is not required, as production has its own dedicated leader.

Non-negotiable requirements:

• Experience: 10+ years of experience, with genuine general management, including owning a full P&L (company, subsidiary, or business unit) and leading a team of managers. You are a leader of leaders, not a strong functional specialist stepping up for the first time.
• Operational Expertise: Real operating experience in a regulated product category (GMP, HACCP, pharma, food, nutraceutical/supplement, or comparable), spanning quality and regulatory, product development, and inventory/supply. You must be able to own these functions, carry quality and regulatory risk, and act as a credible sparring partner to the Production Manager.
• Scale-up Temperament: Comfortable building structure from thin processes in a founder-led company with approximately 200M SEK revenue.
• Commercial Literacy: Understands brand, channel economics, and trade terms well enough to direct a retail expansion.
• Motivation: Motivated by operational ownership; you want to run the day-to-day of a profitable company end-to-end and build the machine, not occupy a caretaker or chief-of-staff seat.
• Location: Full-time on-site in Malmö. This is not a hybrid or remote role. Candidates must be based in the Öresund region.
• Language: Fluent English is a requirement for this role (our working language; the team is international). Swedish is not required.

Strong preferences:

• FMCG background: consumer health, VMS/supplements, personal care, or functional food.
• Experience in liquid, food, or beverage manufacturing environments.
• Direct experience with European drug and health retail (dm, Rossmann, Holland & Barrett, Boots) and their buying processes.
• Existing relationships with target retail banners.
• AI-forward: has used AI and automation to build a leaner operation, or is visibly motivated to, and able to bring a team along with it.

Practical details

Apply by clicking the link and submitting your resume, including your cover letter in the same document (one file for CV and cover letter).

Start date: as soon as possible.

Workplace: Swedish Nutra AB, Lodgatan 19, 211 24 Malmö.

About Swedish Nutra

Swedish Nutra is a Malmö-based family company and one of the Nordics’ leading manufacturers of premium liquid vitamins and nutritional supplements. We offer private label/white label production and are the makers of the Swedish Collagen and Swedish Nutra brands, sold in over 37 countries worldwide. We’re a fast-growing business with global distribution, a warm and international team, and an enterprising environment where people get real room to develop and grow.

About the role

We are seeking a Chief Operating Officer (COO) to take over the day-to-day leadership of Swedish Nutra. This is a pivotal role designed to free our founder-CEO to focus on growth, while you build and lead the operational engine that will scale our business. You will be the number-one on-site point of contact for the entire team, working full-time from our Malmö headquarters.

What you'll own

As COO, you will be responsible for the full company P&L and all approximately 30 staff, leading through the management layer. Your mandate will grow in defined phases, ultimately encompassing all day-to-day responsibilities currently held by the CEO. This includes:

• Day-to-day leadership of the company: Full P&L ownership and leadership of all staff through the management team.
• The management team: Building and leading the Production Manager, Head of Sales, and Marketing Manager (searches currently in motion), and completing the team with key-account and e-commerce hires. Final say on management-level appointments remains with the owners.
• Production: Setting targets and holding the Production Manager accountable for output, quality, supply, and cost.
• The technical spine: Ensuring quality assurance and regulatory compliance across all export markets, maintaining GMP/HACCP certification, overseeing the product development pipeline, and managing inventory and supply end-to-end through a monthly S&OP rhythm.
• The commercial engine: Guiding the Head of Sales and Marketing Manager to execute the retail and DTC agenda set with the CEO, including expanding from exclusive-distributor coverage to include direct retail relationships.
• DTC and marketplace channels: Overseeing Amazon EU/UK through an accountable Amazon specialist, and the US Amazon/Shopify/DTC business, with investment pace agreed with the CEO.
• Systems and process: Transforming ad-hoc, founder-held execution into documented, repeatable processes and stage-appropriate tooling, and extracting institutional knowledge into the organization through SOPs.
• The people function during ramp-up: Managing performance, development, and hiring below management level, with in-house recruitment support, until a dedicated HR lead is justified.
• The automation agenda: Supporting automation across the business, ensuring new processes across every department are designed to be automation-ready.
• The operating rhythm: Establishing KPIs, budgets, forecasting, cash-flow discipline, running weekly management meetings, and providing monthly reporting to the owners.

What we're looking for

We are seeking a proven general manager with real operational depth and a scale-up temperament. While few candidates will be equally strong across all areas, we prioritize in this order: proven general management, depth across quality, regulatory, product development, and supply, and hands-on commercial-growth experience. Running a factory is not required, as production has its own dedicated leader.

Non-negotiable requirements:

• Experience: 10+ years of experience, with genuine general management, including owning a full P&L (company, subsidiary, or business unit) and leading a team of managers. You are a leader of leaders, not a strong functional specialist stepping up for the first time.
• Operational Expertise: Real operating experience in a regulated product category (GMP, HACCP, pharma, food, nutraceutical/supplement, or comparable), spanning quality and regulatory, product development, and inventory/supply. You must be able to own these functions, carry quality and regulatory risk, and act as a credible sparring partner to the Production Manager.
• Scale-up Temperament: Comfortable building structure from thin processes in a founder-led company with approximately 200M SEK revenue.
• Commercial Literacy: Understands brand, channel economics, and trade terms well enough to direct a retail expansion.
• Motivation: Motivated by operational ownership; you want to run the day-to-day of a profitable company end-to-end and build the machine, not occupy a caretaker or chief-of-staff seat.
• Location: Full-time on-site in Malmö. This is not a hybrid or remote role. Candidates must be based in the Öresund region.
• Language: Fluent English is a requirement for this role (our working language; the team is international). Swedish is not required.

Strong preferences:

• FMCG background: consumer health, VMS/supplements, personal care, or functional food.
• Experience in liquid, food, or beverage manufacturing environments.
• Direct experience with European drug and health retail (dm, Rossmann, Holland & Barrett, Boots) and their buying processes.
• Existing relationships with target retail banners.
• AI-forward: has used AI and automation to build a leaner operation, or is visibly motivated to, and able to bring a team along with it.

Practical details

Apply by clicking the link and submitting your resume, including your cover letter in the same document (one file for CV and cover letter).

Start date: as soon as possible.

Workplace: Swedish Nutra AB, Lodgatan 19, 211 24 Malmö.

About Swedish Nutra

Swedish Nutra is a Malmö-based family company and one of the Nordics’ leading manufacturers of premium liquid vitamins and nutritional supplements. We offer private label/white label production and are the makers of the Swedish Collagen and Swedish Nutra brands, sold in over 37 countries worldwide. We’re a fast-growing business with global distribution, a warm and international team, and an enterprising environment where people get real room to develop and grow.

About the role

We are seeking a Chief Operating Officer (COO) to take over the day-to-day leadership of Swedish Nutra. This is a pivotal role designed to free our founder-CEO to focus on growth, while you build and lead the operational engine that will scale our business. You will be the number-one on-site point of contact for the entire team, working full-time from our Malmö headquarters.

What you'll own

As COO, you will be responsible for the full company P&L and all approximately 30 staff, leading through the management layer. Your mandate will grow in defined phases, ultimately encompassing all day-to-day responsibilities currently held by the CEO. This includes:

• Day-to-day leadership of the company: Full P&L ownership and leadership of all staff through the management team.
• The management team: Building and leading the Production Manager, Head of Sales, and Marketing Manager (searches currently in motion), and completing the team with key-account and e-commerce hires. Final say on management-level appointments remains with the owners.
• Production: Setting targets and holding the Production Manager accountable for output, quality, supply, and cost.
• The technical spine: Ensuring quality assurance and regulatory compliance across all export markets, maintaining GMP/HACCP certification, overseeing the product development pipeline, and managing inventory and supply end-to-end through a monthly S&OP rhythm.
• The commercial engine: Guiding the Head of Sales and Marketing Manager to execute the retail and DTC agenda set with the CEO, including expanding from exclusive-distributor coverage to include direct retail relationships.
• DTC and marketplace channels: Overseeing Amazon EU/UK through an accountable Amazon specialist, and the US Amazon/Shopify/DTC business, with investment pace agreed with the CEO.
• Systems and process: Transforming ad-hoc, founder-held execution into documented, repeatable processes and stage-appropriate tooling, and extracting institutional knowledge into the organization through SOPs.
• The people function during ramp-up: Managing performance, development, and hiring below management level, with in-house recruitment support, until a dedicated HR lead is justified.
• The automation agenda: Supporting automation across the business, ensuring new processes across every department are designed to be automation-ready.
• The operating rhythm: Establishing KPIs, budgets, forecasting, cash-flow discipline, running weekly management meetings, and providing monthly reporting to the owners.

What we're looking for

We are seeking a proven general manager with real operational depth and a scale-up temperament. While few candidates will be equally strong across all areas, we prioritize in this order: proven general management, depth across quality, regulatory, product development, and supply, and hands-on commercial-growth experience. Running a factory is not required, as production has its own dedicated leader.

Non-negotiable requirements:

• Experience: 10+ years of experience, with genuine general management, including owning a full P&L (company, subsidiary, or business unit) and leading a team of managers. You are a leader of leaders, not a strong functional specialist stepping up for the first time.
• Operational Expertise: Real operating experience in a regulated product category (GMP, HACCP, pharma, food, nutraceutical/supplement, or comparable), spanning quality and regulatory, product development, and inventory/supply. You must be able to own these functions, carry quality and regulatory risk, and act as a credible sparring partner to the Production Manager.
• Scale-up Temperament: Comfortable building structure from thin processes in a founder-led company with approximately 200M SEK revenue.
• Commercial Literacy: Understands brand, channel economics, and trade terms well enough to direct a retail expansion.
• Motivation: Motivated by operational ownership; you want to run the day-to-day of a profitable company end-to-end and build the machine, not occupy a caretaker or chief-of-staff seat.
• Location: Full-time on-site in Malmö. This is not a hybrid or remote role. Candidates must be based in the Öresund region.
• Language: Fluent English is a requirement for this role (our working language; the team is international). Swedish is not required.

Strong preferences:

• FMCG background: consumer health, VMS/supplements, personal care, or functional food.
• Experience in liquid, food, or beverage manufacturing environments.
• Direct experience with European drug and health retail (dm, Rossmann, Holland & Barrett, Boots) and their buying processes.
• Existing relationships with target retail banners.
• AI-forward: has used AI and automation to build a leaner operation, or is visibly motivated to, and able to bring a team along with it.

Practical details

Apply by clicking the link and submitting your resume, including your cover letter in the same document (one file for CV and cover letter).

Start date: as soon as possible.

Workplace: Swedish Nutra AB, Lodgatan 19, 211 24 Malmö.

About Swedish Nutra

Swedish Nutra is a Malmö-based family company and one of the Nordics’ leading manufacturers of premium liquid vitamins and nutritional supplements. We offer private label/white label production and are the makers of the Swedish Collagen and Swedish Nutra brands, sold in over 37 countries worldwide. We’re a fast-growing business with global distribution, a warm and international team, and an enterprising environment where people get real room to develop and grow.

About the role

We are seeking a Chief Operating Officer (COO) to take over the day-to-day leadership of Swedish Nutra. This is a pivotal role designed to free our founder-CEO to focus on growth, while you build and lead the operational engine that will scale our business. You will be the number-one on-site point of contact for the entire team, working full-time from our Malmö headquarters.

What you'll own

As COO, you will be responsible for the full company P&L and all approximately 30 staff, leading through the management layer. Your mandate will grow in defined phases, ultimately encompassing all day-to-day responsibilities currently held by the CEO. This includes:

• Day-to-day leadership of the company: Full P&L ownership and leadership of all staff through the management team.
• The management team: Building and leading the Production Manager, Head of Sales, and Marketing Manager (searches currently in motion), and completing the team with key-account and e-commerce hires. Final say on management-level appointments remains with the owners.
• Production: Setting targets and holding the Production Manager accountable for output, quality, supply, and cost.
• The technical spine: Ensuring quality assurance and regulatory compliance across all export markets, maintaining GMP/HACCP certification, overseeing the product development pipeline, and managing inventory and supply end-to-end through a monthly S&OP rhythm.
• The commercial engine: Guiding the Head of Sales and Marketing Manager to execute the retail and DTC agenda set with the CEO, including expanding from exclusive-distributor coverage to include direct retail relationships.
• DTC and marketplace channels: Overseeing Amazon EU/UK through an accountable Amazon specialist, and the US Amazon/Shopify/DTC business, with investment pace agreed with the CEO.
• Systems and process: Transforming ad-hoc, founder-held execution into documented, repeatable processes and stage-appropriate tooling, and extracting institutional knowledge into the organization through SOPs.
• The people function during ramp-up: Managing performance, development, and hiring below management level, with in-house recruitment support, until a dedicated HR lead is justified.
• The automation agenda: Supporting automation across the business, ensuring new processes across every department are designed to be automation-ready.
• The operating rhythm: Establishing KPIs, budgets, forecasting, cash-flow discipline, running weekly management meetings, and providing monthly reporting to the owners.

What we're looking for

We are seeking a proven general manager with real operational depth and a scale-up temperament. While few candidates will be equally strong across all areas, we prioritize in this order: proven general management, depth across quality, regulatory, product development, and supply, and hands-on commercial-growth experience. Running a factory is not required, as production has its own dedicated leader.

Non-negotiable requirements:

• Experience: 10+ years of experience, with genuine general management, including owning a full P&L (company, subsidiary, or business unit) and leading a team of managers. You are a leader of leaders, not a strong functional specialist stepping up for the first time.
• Operational Expertise: Real operating experience in a regulated product category (GMP, HACCP, pharma, food, nutraceutical/supplement, or comparable), spanning quality and regulatory, product development, and inventory/supply. You must be able to own these functions, carry quality and regulatory risk, and act as a credible sparring partner to the Production Manager.
• Scale-up Temperament: Comfortable building structure from thin processes in a founder-led company with approximately 200M SEK revenue.
• Commercial Literacy: Understands brand, channel economics, and trade terms well enough to direct a retail expansion.
• Motivation: Motivated by operational ownership; you want to run the day-to-day of a profitable company end-to-end and build the machine, not occupy a caretaker or chief-of-staff seat.
• Location: Full-time on-site in Malmö. This is not a hybrid or remote role. Candidates must be based in the Öresund region.
• Language: Fluent English is a requirement for this role (our working language; the team is international). Swedish is not required.

Strong preferences:

• FMCG background: consumer health, VMS/supplements, personal care, or functional food.
• Experience in liquid, food, or beverage manufacturing environments.
• Direct experience with European drug and health retail (dm, Rossmann, Holland & Barrett, Boots) and their buying processes.
• Existing relationships with target retail banners.
• AI-forward: has used AI and automation to build a leaner operation, or is visibly motivated to, and able to bring a team along with it.

Practical details

Apply by clicking the link and submitting your resume, including your cover letter in the same document (one file for CV and cover letter).

Start date: as soon as possible.

Workplace: Swedish Nutra AB, Lodgatan 19, 211 24 Malmö.

About Swedish Nutra

Swedish Nutra is a Malmö-based family company and one of the Nordics’ leading manufacturers of premium liquid vitamins and nutritional supplements. We offer private label/white label production and are the makers of the Swedish Collagen and Swedish Nutra brands, sold in over 37 countries worldwide. We’re a fast-growing business with global distribution, a warm and international team, and an enterprising environment where people get real room to develop and grow.

About the role

We are seeking a Chief Operating Officer (COO) to take over the day-to-day leadership of Swedish Nutra. This is a pivotal role designed to free our founder-CEO to focus on growth, while you build and lead the operational engine that will scale our business. You will be the number-one on-site point of contact for the entire team, working full-time from our Malmö headquarters.

What you'll own

As COO, you will be responsible for the full company P&L and all approximately 30 staff, leading through the management layer. Your mandate will grow in defined phases, ultimately encompassing all day-to-day responsibilities currently held by the CEO. This includes:

• Day-to-day leadership of the company: Full P&L ownership and leadership of all staff through the management team.
• The management team: Building and leading the Production Manager, Head of Sales, and Marketing Manager (searches currently in motion), and completing the team with key-account and e-commerce hires. Final say on management-level appointments remains with the owners.
• Production: Setting targets and holding the Production Manager accountable for output, quality, supply, and cost.
• The technical spine: Ensuring quality assurance and regulatory compliance across all export markets, maintaining GMP/HACCP certification, overseeing the product development pipeline, and managing inventory and supply end-to-end through a monthly S&OP rhythm.
• The commercial engine: Guiding the Head of Sales and Marketing Manager to execute the retail and DTC agenda set with the CEO, including expanding from exclusive-distributor coverage to include direct retail relationships.
• DTC and marketplace channels: Overseeing Amazon EU/UK through an accountable Amazon specialist, and the US Amazon/Shopify/DTC business, with investment pace agreed with the CEO.
• Systems and process: Transforming ad-hoc, founder-held execution into documented, repeatable processes and stage-appropriate tooling, and extracting institutional knowledge into the organization through SOPs.
• The people function during ramp-up: Managing performance, development, and hiring below management level, with in-house recruitment support, until a dedicated HR lead is justified.
• The automation agenda: Supporting automation across the business, ensuring new processes across every department are designed to be automation-ready.
• The operating rhythm: Establishing KPIs, budgets, forecasting, cash-flow discipline, running weekly management meetings, and providing monthly reporting to the owners.

What we're looking for

We are seeking a proven general manager with real operational depth and a scale-up temperament. While few candidates will be equally strong across all areas, we prioritize in this order: proven general management, depth across quality, regulatory, product development, and supply, and hands-on commercial-growth experience. Running a factory is not required, as production has its own dedicated leader.

Non-negotiable requirements:

• Experience: 10+ years of experience, with genuine general management, including owning a full P&L (company, subsidiary, or business unit) and leading a team of managers. You are a leader of leaders, not a strong functional specialist stepping up for the first time.
• Operational Expertise: Real operating experience in a regulated product category (GMP, HACCP, pharma, food, nutraceutical/supplement, or comparable), spanning quality and regulatory, product development, and inventory/supply. You must be able to own these functions, carry quality and regulatory risk, and act as a credible sparring partner to the Production Manager.
• Scale-up Temperament: Comfortable building structure from thin processes in a founder-led company with approximately 200M SEK revenue.
• Commercial Literacy: Understands brand, channel economics, and trade terms well enough to direct a retail expansion.
• Motivation: Motivated by operational ownership; you want to run the day-to-day of a profitable company end-to-end and build the machine, not occupy a caretaker or chief-of-staff seat.
• Location: Full-time on-site in Malmö. This is not a hybrid or remote role. Candidates must be based in the Öresund region.
• Language: Fluent English is a requirement for this role (our working language; the team is international). Swedish is not required.

Strong preferences:

• FMCG background: consumer health, VMS/supplements, personal care, or functional food.
• Experience in liquid, food, or beverage manufacturing environments.
• Direct experience with European drug and health retail (dm, Rossmann, Holland & Barrett, Boots) and their buying processes.
• Existing relationships with target retail banners.
• AI-forward: has used AI and automation to build a leaner operation, or is visibly motivated to, and able to bring a team along with it.

Practical details

Apply by clicking the link and submitting your resume, including your cover letter in the same document (one file for CV and cover letter).

Start date: as soon as possible.

Workplace: Swedish Nutra AB, Lodgatan 19, 211 24 Malmö.

About Swedish Nutra

Swedish Nutra is a Malmö-based family company and one of the Nordics’ leading manufacturers of premium liquid vitamins and nutritional supplements. We offer private label/white label production and are the makers of the Swedish Collagen and Swedish Nutra brands, sold in over 37 countries worldwide. We’re a fast-growing business with global distribution, a warm and international team, and an enterprising environment where people get real room to develop and grow.

About the role

We are seeking a Chief Operating Officer (COO) to take over the day-to-day leadership of Swedish Nutra. This is a pivotal role designed to free our founder-CEO to focus on growth, while you build and lead the operational engine that will scale our business. You will be the number-one on-site point of contact for the entire team, working full-time from our Malmö headquarters.

What you'll own

As COO, you will be responsible for the full company P&L and all approximately 30 staff, leading through the management layer. Your mandate will grow in defined phases, ultimately encompassing all day-to-day responsibilities currently held by the CEO. This includes:

• Day-to-day leadership of the company: Full P&L ownership and leadership of all staff through the management team.
• The management team: Building and leading the Production Manager, Head of Sales, and Marketing Manager (searches currently in motion), and completing the team with key-account and e-commerce hires. Final say on management-level appointments remains with the owners.
• Production: Setting targets and holding the Production Manager accountable for output, quality, supply, and cost.
• The technical spine: Ensuring quality assurance and regulatory compliance across all export markets, maintaining GMP/HACCP certification, overseeing the product development pipeline, and managing inventory and supply end-to-end through a monthly S&OP rhythm.
• The commercial engine: Guiding the Head of Sales and Marketing Manager to execute the retail and DTC agenda set with the CEO, including expanding from exclusive-distributor coverage to include direct retail relationships.
• DTC and marketplace channels: Overseeing Amazon EU/UK through an accountable Amazon specialist, and the US Amazon/Shopify/DTC business, with investment pace agreed with the CEO.
• Systems and process: Transforming ad-hoc, founder-held execution into documented, repeatable processes and stage-appropriate tooling, and extracting institutional knowledge into the organization through SOPs.
• The people function during ramp-up: Managing performance, development, and hiring below management level, with in-house recruitment support, until a dedicated HR lead is justified.
• The automation agenda: Supporting automation across the business, ensuring new processes across every department are designed to be automation-ready.
• The operating rhythm: Establishing KPIs, budgets, forecasting, cash-flow discipline, running weekly management meetings, and providing monthly reporting to the owners.

What we're looking for

We are seeking a proven general manager with real operational depth and a scale-up temperament. While few candidates will be equally strong across all areas, we prioritize in this order: proven general management, depth across quality, regulatory, product development, and supply, and hands-on commercial-growth experience. Running a factory is not required, as production has its own dedicated leader.

Non-negotiable requirements:

• Experience: 10+ years of experience, with genuine general management, including owning a full P&L (company, subsidiary, or business unit) and leading a team of managers. You are a leader of leaders, not a strong functional specialist stepping up for the first time.
• Operational Expertise: Real operating experience in a regulated product category (GMP, HACCP, pharma, food, nutraceutical/supplement, or comparable), spanning quality and regulatory, product development, and inventory/supply. You must be able to own these functions, carry quality and regulatory risk, and act as a credible sparring partner to the Production Manager.
• Scale-up Temperament: Comfortable building structure from thin processes in a founder-led company with approximately 200M SEK revenue.
• Commercial Literacy: Understands brand, channel economics, and trade terms well enough to direct a retail expansion.
• Motivation: Motivated by operational ownership; you want to run the day-to-day of a profitable company end-to-end and build the machine, not occupy a caretaker or chief-of-staff seat.
• Location: Full-time on-site in Malmö. This is not a hybrid or remote role. Candidates must be based in the Öresund region.
• Language: Fluent English is a requirement for this role (our working language; the team is international). Swedish is not required.

Strong preferences:

• FMCG background: consumer health, VMS/supplements, personal care, or functional food.
• Experience in liquid, food, or beverage manufacturing environments.
• Direct experience with European drug and health retail (dm, Rossmann, Holland & Barrett, Boots) and their buying processes.
• Existing relationships with target retail banners.
• AI-forward: has used AI and automation to build a leaner operation, or is visibly motivated to, and able to bring a team along with it.

Practical details

Apply by clicking the link and submitting your resume, including your cover letter in the same document (one file for CV and cover letter).

Start date: as soon as possible.

Workplace: Swedish Nutra AB, Lodgatan 19, 211 24 Malmö.

About Swedish Nutra

Swedish Nutra is a Malmö-based family company and one of the Nordics’ leading manufacturers of premium liquid vitamins and nutritional supplements. We offer private label/white label production and are the makers of the Swedish Collagen and Swedish Nutra brands, sold in over 37 countries worldwide. We’re a fast-growing business with global distribution, a warm and international team, and an enterprising environment where people get real room to develop and grow.

About the role

We are seeking a Chief Operating Officer (COO) to take over the day-to-day leadership of Swedish Nutra. This is a pivotal role designed to free our founder-CEO to focus on growth, while you build and lead the operational engine that will scale our business. You will be the number-one on-site point of contact for the entire team, working full-time from our Malmö headquarters.

What you'll own

As COO, you will be responsible for the full company P&L and all approximately 30 staff, leading through the management layer. Your mandate will grow in defined phases, ultimately encompassing all day-to-day responsibilities currently held by the CEO. This includes:

• Day-to-day leadership of the company: Full P&L ownership and leadership of all staff through the management team.
• The management team: Building and leading the Production Manager, Head of Sales, and Marketing Manager (searches currently in motion), and completing the team with key-account and e-commerce hires. Final say on management-level appointments remains with the owners.
• Production: Setting targets and holding the Production Manager accountable for output, quality, supply, and cost.
• The technical spine: Ensuring quality assurance and regulatory compliance across all export markets, maintaining GMP/HACCP certification, overseeing the product development pipeline, and managing inventory and supply end-to-end through a monthly S&OP rhythm.
• The commercial engine: Guiding the Head of Sales and Marketing Manager to execute the retail and DTC agenda set with the CEO, including expanding from exclusive-distributor coverage to include direct retail relationships.
• DTC and marketplace channels: Overseeing Amazon EU/UK through an accountable Amazon specialist, and the US Amazon/Shopify/DTC business, with investment pace agreed with the CEO.
• Systems and process: Transforming ad-hoc, founder-held execution into documented, repeatable processes and stage-appropriate tooling, and extracting institutional knowledge into the organization through SOPs.
• The people function during ramp-up: Managing performance, development, and hiring below management level, with in-house recruitment support, until a dedicated HR lead is justified.
• The automation agenda: Supporting automation across the business, ensuring new processes across every department are designed to be automation-ready.
• The operating rhythm: Establishing KPIs, budgets, forecasting, cash-flow discipline, running weekly management meetings, and providing monthly reporting to the owners.

What we're looking for

We are seeking a proven general manager with real operational depth and a scale-up temperament. While few candidates will be equally strong across all areas, we prioritize in this order: proven general management, depth across quality, regulatory, product development, and supply, and hands-on commercial-growth experience. Running a factory is not required, as production has its own dedicated leader.

Non-negotiable requirements:

• Experience: 10+ years of experience, with genuine general management, including owning a full P&L (company, subsidiary, or business unit) and leading a team of managers. You are a leader of leaders, not a strong functional specialist stepping up for the first time.
• Operational Expertise: Real operating experience in a regulated product category (GMP, HACCP, pharma, food, nutraceutical/supplement, or comparable), spanning quality and regulatory, product development, and inventory/supply. You must be able to own these functions, carry quality and regulatory risk, and act as a credible sparring partner to the Production Manager.
• Scale-up Temperament: Comfortable building structure from thin processes in a founder-led company with approximately 200M SEK revenue.
• Commercial Literacy: Understands brand, channel economics, and trade terms well enough to direct a retail expansion.
• Motivation: Motivated by operational ownership; you want to run the day-to-day of a profitable company end-to-end and build the machine, not occupy a caretaker or chief-of-staff seat.
• Location: Full-time on-site in Malmö. This is not a hybrid or remote role. Candidates must be based in the Öresund region.
• Language: Fluent English is a requirement for this role (our working language; the team is international). Swedish is not required.

Strong preferences:

• FMCG background: consumer health, VMS/supplements, personal care, or functional food.
• Experience in liquid, food, or beverage manufacturing environments.
• Direct experience with European drug and health retail (dm, Rossmann, Holland & Barrett, Boots) and their buying processes.
• Existing relationships with target retail banners.
• AI-forward: has used AI and automation to build a leaner operation, or is visibly motivated to, and able to bring a team along with it.

Practical details

Apply by clicking the link and submitting your resume, including your cover letter in the same document (one file for CV and cover letter).

Start date: as soon as possible.

Workplace: Swedish Nutra AB, Lodgatan 19, 211 24 Malmö.

About Swedish Nutra

Swedish Nutra is a Malmö-based family company and one of the Nordics’ leading manufacturers of premium liquid vitamins and nutritional supplements. We offer private label/white label production and are the makers of the Swedish Collagen and Swedish Nutra brands, sold in over 37 countries worldwide. We’re a fast-growing business with global distribution, a warm and international team, and an enterprising environment where people get real room to develop and grow.

About the role

We are seeking a Chief Operating Officer (COO) to take over the day-to-day leadership of Swedish Nutra. This is a pivotal role designed to free our founder-CEO to focus on growth, while you build and lead the operational engine that will scale our business. You will be the number-one on-site point of contact for the entire team, working full-time from our Malmö headquarters.

What you'll own

As COO, you will be responsible for the full company P&L and all approximately 30 staff, leading through the management layer. Your mandate will grow in defined phases, ultimately encompassing all day-to-day responsibilities currently held by the CEO. This includes:

• Day-to-day leadership of the company: Full P&L ownership and leadership of all staff through the management team.
• The management team: Building and leading the Production Manager, Head of Sales, and Marketing Manager (searches currently in motion), and completing the team with key-account and e-commerce hires. Final say on management-level appointments remains with the owners.
• Production: Setting targets and holding the Production Manager accountable for output, quality, supply, and cost.
• The technical spine: Ensuring quality assurance and regulatory compliance across all export markets, maintaining GMP/HACCP certification, overseeing the product development pipeline, and managing inventory and supply end-to-end through a monthly S&OP rhythm.
• The commercial engine: Guiding the Head of Sales and Marketing Manager to execute the retail and DTC agenda set with the CEO, including expanding from exclusive-distributor coverage to include direct retail relationships.
• DTC and marketplace channels: Overseeing Amazon EU/UK through an accountable Amazon specialist, and the US Amazon/Shopify/DTC business, with investment pace agreed with the CEO.
• Systems and process: Transforming ad-hoc, founder-held execution into documented, repeatable processes and stage-appropriate tooling, and extracting institutional knowledge into the organization through SOPs.
• The people function during ramp-up: Managing performance, development, and hiring below management level, with in-house recruitment support, until a dedicated HR lead is justified.
• The automation agenda: Supporting automation across the business, ensuring new processes across every department are designed to be automation-ready.
• The operating rhythm: Establishing KPIs, budgets, forecasting, cash-flow discipline, running weekly management meetings, and providing monthly reporting to the owners.

What we're looking for

We are seeking a proven general manager with real operational depth and a scale-up temperament. While few candidates will be equally strong across all areas, we prioritize in this order: proven general management, depth across quality, regulatory, product development, and supply, and hands-on commercial-growth experience. Running a factory is not required, as production has its own dedicated leader.

Non-negotiable requirements:

• Experience: 10+ years of experience, with genuine general management, including owning a full P&L (company, subsidiary, or business unit) and leading a team of managers. You are a leader of leaders, not a strong functional specialist stepping up for the first time.
• Operational Expertise: Real operating experience in a regulated product category (GMP, HACCP, pharma, food, nutraceutical/supplement, or comparable), spanning quality and regulatory, product development, and inventory/supply. You must be able to own these functions, carry quality and regulatory risk, and act as a credible sparring partner to the Production Manager.
• Scale-up Temperament: Comfortable building structure from thin processes in a founder-led company with approximately 200M SEK revenue.
• Commercial Literacy: Understands brand, channel economics, and trade terms well enough to direct a retail expansion.
• Motivation: Motivated by operational ownership; you want to run the day-to-day of a profitable company end-to-end and build the machine, not occupy a caretaker or chief-of-staff seat.
• Location: Full-time on-site in Malmö. This is not a hybrid or remote role. Candidates must be based in the Öresund region.
• Language: Fluent English is a requirement for this role (our working language; the team is international). Swedish is not required.

Strong preferences:

• FMCG background: consumer health, VMS/supplements, personal care, or functional food.
• Experience in liquid, food, or beverage manufacturing environments.
• Direct experience with European drug and health retail (dm, Rossmann, Holland & Barrett, Boots) and their buying processes.
• Existing relationships with target retail banners.
• AI-forward: has used AI and automation to build a leaner operation, or is visibly motivated to, and able to bring a team along with it.

Practical details

Apply by clicking the link and submitting your resume, including your cover letter in the same document (one file for CV and cover letter).

Start date: as soon as possible.

Workplace: Swedish Nutra AB, Lodgatan 19, 211 24 Malmö.