Buyer Indirect Procurement Operations

Are you ready to join a global leader in the health and hygiene industry with a mission to improve people’s lives and well-being? Now more than ever Essity is making an impact as we provide products used in hygiene and healthcare. We are looking for a passionate Buyer (f/m/d) for our indirect procurement team whether you are looking to make a change or advance your career find your path with Essity and join our amazing global team.

**About the role**:
Located in the Gothenborg, Sweden office and working directly with the Indirect Procurement Operations Director, the Buyer role is responsible for providing best-in-class procurement support to Essity stakeholders driving diverse procurement initiatives, supporting digitalization and process automation and contributing to the savings goals and objectives.

Procurement is recognized for its stakeholder centric way of working, agility and ability to continuously add value to the Essity business. As a category buyer you will work hand in hand with the global category team and your stakeholders in order to ensure the execution of global and local initiatives as well as drive savings initiatives and deliver added value.

**Key Job Accountabilities**:

- You will be responsible for buying services across our main office locations for one of our main categories (professional services, FM, IT)
- You execute procurement tasks according to the global strategy while ensuring high quality projects and services
- You will oversee the supplier base within your category and lead negotiations across locations, using appropriate e-sourcing tools and techniques.
- Execute and implement procurement strategy in area of responsibility
- Identify and execute saving initiatives and execute RFQ´s directly in Ariba
- Ensure usage of preferred supplier contracts in order to maximize results and to comply with the procurement strategy
- Gather and analyses spend and price data, identifying opportunities for negotiations based on company and market data
- Ensure compliance with Essity procedures, purchasing policy and financial instructions
- Close cooperation and alignment with operational and global procurement teams, to ensure implementation and deployment of programs and initiatives around the globe
- Manage risk and lead negotiations for all local categories across locations, using appropriate e-sourcing tools and techniques
- Ensure appropriate contingency plans are in place in accordance to procurement policies and procedures
- Align with requester on missing specification and clarify user requirements relating to free-text requests (one-time purchases)
- Support Business Partnering to drive continuous improvement through cost saving projects, organising trials, implementing supplier changes and tracking savings
- Provide content for content management admin for catalog/form enablement
- Identify suppliers as per the category instructions (preferred supplier list) and execute quick RfQ
- Ensure compliance with Essity procedures, purchasing policy and financial instructions
- Actively exchange best practice in the buyer team and identify and execute saving initiatives
- Highlight opportunities to bundle and contract volumes and review buying channel mapping regularly for the local categories
- Ensure high quality of Vendor Master Data and ensure an up-to-date source list (Contract/ Catalog /Purchase Info Records) for local suppliers
- Provide insight to improvement system efficiency and escalate supplier to SQM and Category Management and system/process issues to Procurement Excellence to ensure continuous improvement
***Who you are**

**You have great communication skills and work with a high sense of collaboration and team work. Interacting with stakeholders at all organizational levels, you are skilled at building lasting relationships and interacting with team members across the globe. You take initiative and ownership of your tasks as well as motivated by delivering high service levels and results. You have the ability to work in a fast-paced and complex matrix organization - highly analytical but can think strategically and see the bigger picture.**

**What you need**:

- University-/BA-/BS-College degree within relevant field (Business, Economics)
- At least 2 years of experience in procurement with demonstrated strategic sourcing competence
- Experience with indirect services (IT, HR, FM)
- Experience in supporting multi-functional projects in an international work environment with remote locations
- Competence of working strategically, adequate track record preferred
- Good knowledge of contract law
- Pronounced negotiation skills and assertiveness
- Fluent in English (written and oral) is a must, second language preferred
- Strong computer skills (MS Office, Ariba, SAP, Power BI)

**Additional Information**:
**Breaking Barriers to Well-being**:
Working at Essity is not just a career; it is a chance to directly make the world a healthier, more hygienic and safer place.