About The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world's leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products. The company's products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M• A• C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD BEAUTY, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, and the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD.

About the Role

As the Affiliate Indirect Procurement Manager, you will play a crucial role in executing procurement activities across all Indirect Spend categories, managing business-driven and procurement-sourced requests within affiliates. You will actively engage with local stakeholders, fostering integrated and aligned stakeholder management across Procurement. As a key team member in the Affiliate Delivery (Virtual Procurement Hubs), your responsibilities as an Indirect Procurement Manager include executing day-to-day sourcing activities and handling unplanned or reactive business-led buying activities to maximize procurement impact and savings realization.

• Provide high-quality service to day-to-day stakeholders and serve as the general point of contact for Procurement topics.
• Understand local needs, objectives, and priorities to enhance cost, service, and quality of spend covered.

• Identify opportunities for the Category and Supplier Relationship Management team.
• Support local implementation and adherence to Category initiatives, ensuring savings realization and addressing whitespace.

• Conduct sourcing activities focused on executing and implementing large business-initiated or major projects aligned with Category Strategy guides.
• Manage the execution of local or cross-affiliate projects in collaboration with the Hub Procurement Manager and Category Management team.

• Support stakeholder handover to Transactional Procurement
• Manage the conversion of project outcomes into relevant content and buying channel implementation.

• Support various transformational Procurement projects, such as new Indirect Policy implementation.
• Drive change and ensure Procurement goals and processes move toward excellence.

• Excellent level of English
• Professional Purchasing or Procurement Certification is desirable (NEVI)
• 5-8 years' experience in Indirect Procurement and managing purchasing activities in corporate categories and/or Advertising and Promotions (Sales & Marketing) and Visual Merchandising (POS)
• Proven track record of implementing and executing sourcing projects.
• Sourcing, negotiation, and contracting skills
• Project Management experience
• Ability to communicate with suppliers and senior management.
• Experience with / and usage of Procurement technology i.e., SAP and SAP Ariba

• Result and execution focused.
• Excellent communication skills - able to inform/influence people at all levels.
• Experienced in managing internal customer relationships and resistance.
• Flexible and willing to drive change.
• Ability to work independently and structured within a matrix organization.
• Smoothly handles multiple demands, shifting priorities and rapid change - ability to identify and prioritize critical activities.
• Excellent organization, time management and follow-up skills
• Eye for detail - precise analysis of figures (analytical and numeric skills)
• Works with others towards shared goals - collaborates and shares information.