Lead Procurement Specialist

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.

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