Director Strategy & Business Development Personal Care
Director Strategy \& Business Development Personal Care
Shape the future of Personal Care at Essity. Ready to influence global strategy, turn plans into action, and coordinate impact across regions and functions? Do you thrive at the intersection of strategy and execution? Apply now and make a difference.
About the Role
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As Strategy \& Business Development Director within Essity’s Personal Care Business Unit, you will lead the strategic agenda across categories, geographies, and functions. Acting as a trusted partner to senior leadership, you will shape long\-term direction while ensuring priorities are translated into clear, executable plans.
This role combines high\-level strategic thinking with hands\-on delivery. You will operate as a central integrator in a global, matrix organization, connecting strategy, execution, and governance. With a holistic view of the business, you will coordinate strategic initiatives, support M\&A activities, and ensure alignment across the organization, enabling focus, speed, and disciplined execution.
What You Will Do
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- Strategy Development: Lead the development and continuous evolution of the Personal Care strategy in alignment with Essity’s corporate framework
- Strategic Integration: Ensure alignment between strategy, execution, and key business processes across categories and functions
- Project Leadership: Drive and coordinate strategic projects, including growth opportunities, portfolio development, and new business models
- Business Development \& M\&A: Support cross\-functional initiatives and play a key role in M\&A activities, from opportunity assessment to strategic fit and due diligence
- Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a “chief of staff” style partner to senior leaders, ensuring strategic priorities are well coordinated and clearly communicated
- Risk \& Performance: Drive business risk assessments and partner with key stakeholders to define, track, and follow up on strategic KPIs
- Ways of Working: Continuously improve collaboration and ways of working across the global organization
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- University degree or background in Business, Economics, Finance, or a related field
- Extensive experience in strategy, business development, or management consulting, including work in global roles within a matrix organization
- Strong analytical and business acumen, with experience across categories, supply chain understanding, and exposure to M\&A processes
- Influential and collaborative, with excellent stakeholder management, communication, and change leadership skills, balancing strategic perspective with hands\-on execution
- Proven ability to lead and elevate strategy processes in a complex, global organization.
- Structured, results\-oriented and able to manage ambiguity
- Fluent in English; additional languages are an advantage
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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
This role is primarily based in Munich, Stockholm or Philadelphia with collaboration across Essity’s global Personal Care organization. You will work closely with international teams and stakeholders across multiple regions, contributing to projects and initiatives with global impact.
Application End Date:
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29 jun. 2026
Job Requisition ID:
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Essity263176
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