Senior Digital Transformation & AI Value Creation Advisor - Freelance, Part-Time

Karo Healthcare, a dynamic and growing personal-care retail company, is all about making smart choices for everyday healthcare. With a wide-ranging portfolio across seven categories including medical products, we own and sell over 80 brands in about 90 countries. Our portfolio includes such brands as E45, Pevaryl, Lamisil, Nutravita, Decubal and many others. Our core belief in empowering people to make intelligent health decisions drives our growth strategy, blending organic expansion and M&A.

Join us at Karo Healthcare on our exciting journey. We're currently looking for a Senior Digital Transformation & AI Value Creation Advisor for one of our offices inStockholm, Warsaw, or Kaunas, with remote/hybrid flexibility. This is a part-time (30%) consultancy engagement for an experienced independent advisor.

What's in it for you?

• Direct strategic impact: Partner closely with our Group CFO on high-priority transformation and value creation initiatives.
• Enterprise-wide exposure: Work across Finance, Commercial, Supply Chain, Customer Service, IT and Transformation in an international environment.
• Strategy-to-execution ownership: Shape future-ready processes, technology architecture and practical AI applications and help turn them into reality.
• Flexible senior assignment: Contribute your expertise through a part-time advisory engagement without direct people management responsibilities.

What you’ll be doing

• Shape Karo’s digital transformation and AI roadmap, connecting initiatives to measurable business value, scalability and execution readiness.
• Redesign end-to-end processes to enable automation, advanced analytics and agentic AI.
• Advance Revenue Growth Management capabilities, including Gross-to-Net, Trade Promotion Management, pricing, promotions, rebates and deductions.
• Simplify and digitally enable Order-to-Cash and Customer Service processes, improving efficiency, accuracy, working capital and customer experience.
• Advise on the development of S&OP and Integrated Business Planning capabilities, including forecasting, scenario planning and cross-functional decision-making.
• Translate business needs into scalable enterprise architecture, data, integration and technology requirements.
• Provide independent challenge on solution design, vendor proposals and implementation approaches.
• Support business cases, transformation roadmaps, governance structures and execution planning while transferring knowledge to internal teams.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in senior IT, digital transformation, CIO, CTO or enterprise technology leadership roles within international organisations.
• Proven track record of leading complex, multi-country digital transformation programmes and redesigning end-to-end business processes.
• Strong knowledge of AI, automation, advanced analytics and emerging digital technologies, with experience translating them into practical business use cases.
• Demonstrated expertise in several relevant areas, such as Revenue Growth Management, Gross-to-Net, Trade Promotion Management, Order-to-Cash, Customer Service, Sales Operations, Supply Chain, S&OP or Integrated Business Planning.
• Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, data governance, system integration and technology roadmap development.
• Experience working across Finance, Commercial, Supply Chain, Customer Service and IT functions.
• Experience within FMCG, consumer healthcare, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals or a private equity-backed environment is highly advantageous.
• Ability to operate as both a trusted strategic advisor and a hands-on execution partner.
• Strong executive stakeholder management, influencing, vendor management and implementation skills.
• Pragmatic and commercially minded, with the ability to simplify complexity, create structure and deliver in a fast-moving environment.
• Collaborative, discreet and comfortable constructively challenging established ways of working without relying on formal authority.

Benefits

• Opportunity to create, grow and make a meaningful contribution
• Flexible working arrangements that complement the part-time nature of the engagement
• Responsibility for strategic and challenging projects with direct, visible business impact
• Close collaboration with senior leaders and international, cross-functional teams
• The opportunity to shape Karo Healthcare’s digital transformation and AI agenda
• Start-up spirit while being part of a large international organisation with strong values

Karo Healthcare has a Diverse & Inclusive environment. We are looking for qualified candidates irrespective of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, disability or age.