Indirect Buyers Lead Ready to shape how a global business partners with its suppliers? Want to drive smarter procurement decisions and enable impactful collaboration? Join us and take the lead in transforming how we manage indirect spend. About the Role As Indirect Buyers Lead, you will guide and optimize procurement activities across indirect categories, ensuring efficient, compliant, and value-driven purchasing processes. You will act as a strategic partner to key stakeholders across functions such as Marketing, Sales, HR, and Communications, supporting business goals through strong supplier management and procurement excellence. This role involves leading a team across Mexico and Central America, driving performance, improving processes, and strengthening procurement as a trusted advisor within the organization. What You Will Do Category Management: Oversee indirect procurement categories, ensuring timely execution of purchasing processes aligned with company policies and risk mitigation strategies Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with internal teams to understand business needs, provide procurement guidance, and position procurement as a strategic enabler Supplier Management: Coordinate supplier evaluations and follow up on performance, ensuring delivery quality and implementing improvement actions Team Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a team of indirect buyers, driving engagement, capability building, and performance against KPIs Process Optimization: Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, drive automation, and enhance procurement systems and workflows Market Intelligence: Monitor market trends and identify potential suppliers and best practices to strengthen category strategies Reporting & Performance: Analyze procurement indicators, generate reports, and provide insights to improve decision-making and results Who You Are Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or a related field 3–5 years of experience in indirect procurement roles, with exposure to consumer goods environments and stakeholder management Knowledge of procurement tools such as SAP (purchasing module), Ariba, and Microsoft Office; strong understanding of procurement processes and category management Strong leadership, communication, negotiation, organization, and analytical thinking skills, with a results-oriented mindset and ability to influence stakeholders Advanced English proficiency What We Can Offer You Our purpose, Breaking Barriers to Well-being, provides meaning to everything we do. Join us to improve well-being for people and drive positive change for society and the environment. At Essity, you'll feel valued, empowered to grow, and challenged to achieve business results in a collaborative and open atmosphere. Innovate for Good | Excel Together | Be You with Us Application End Date: 22 jul 2026 Job Requisition ID: Essity263539 Essity is a leading global hygiene and health company. Our expertise began with the acquisition of the Swedish company Mölnlycke in 1975, through which our roots stretch back to 1849. Today, our sustainable innovations from globally trusted brands, designed for everybody and every body, care for the well-being of 1 billion people in 150 countries every day. Working at Essity is not just a career but a chance to make the world healthier, safer, and more hygienic. We innovate for good to break barriers and contribute to shaping a healthier future. At Essity, we have a people-first approach where every career is as unique as the individual. We empower employees to excel together and reach their full potential through a winning culture driven by a powerful purpose. Our performance-orientated environment motivates employees to think differently and embrace challenges so we can continue improving lives, every day through better hygiene and health. We provide a sustainable work-life based on flexibility for both employees and employers. We are committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in everything we do. It is the key to our success in creating an inclusive, collaborative, and caring company culture where you can be you with us. Our purpose of Breaking Barriers to Well-being, enables customers and consumers to lead fuller lives at all stages of life. Our leading global brands include TENA and Tork, and other strong brands such as Actimove, Cutimed, JOBST, Knix, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Modibodi, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, TOM Organic and Zewa are sold in 150 countries. I In 2024, Essity had net sales of approximately SEK 146bn (EUR 13bn) and employed 36,000 people. We are headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and Essity is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. If you want to join a company where dedication to people is powered by innovation, welcome to Essity!