At Essity, we are shaping the future of insights to drive better decisions and real business impact. Are you passionate about creating clarity from complexity? Ready to define global standards that elevate insights across markets? Join us and help transform insights into action.
About the RoleAs Global Insights Excellence Lead, you will play a pivotal global role in shaping how insights create value across Essity.
This role is about defining and enabling the system in which high‑quality insights can be consistently generated and effectively leveraged.
You will operate at a strategic level to design frameworks, governance models, and ways of working that align stakeholders and drive comparability across markets. Acting as a senior connector and enabler, you will ensure that insights are not only produced—but understood, trusted, and embedded in decision-making.
What You Will DoMethodology Standardization: Design, standardize, and continuously improve global insights methodologies and frameworks across B2C and B2B categories.
KPI Framework Ownership: Define and govern a global KPI framework, ensuring aligned definitions, reporting principles, and consistent interpretation across markets.
Insight Translation: Establish a common language for insights, creating templates, taxonomies, and reporting principles that improve clarity and comparability.
Governance & Ways of Working: Establish governance models that clarify decision rights, roles, and responsibilities across global, regional, and market teams.
Stakeholder Partnership: Act as a strategic partner and alignment driver across senior stakeholders, ensuring shared understanding and consistent use of insights.
Capability Building: Build capability and drive adoption of standards through coaching, guidance, and best‑practice sharing across teams.
Leadership & Change: Lead managers and teams through transformation, fostering a culture of consistency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
A university degree in a relevant field such as business, marketing, analytics, social sciences, or similar.
Extensive experience of 10+ years in insights, analytics, or insights excellence roles, ideally within FMCG or complex, matrixed organizations, with exposure to both agency and in‑house environments.
Strong expertise in developing global methodologies, KPI frameworks, governance models, and scalable ways of working across diverse markets.
A confident leader and influencer with strong communication, stakeholder management, and change leadership skills, able to translate complexity into clear direction.
Advanced English proficiency, enabling effective collaboration in a global role.
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:17 sept 2026Job Requisition ID:Essity262692Skills Required
- University degree in business, marketing, analytics, social sciences, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in insights, analytics, or insights excellence roles
- Experience developing global methodologies, KPI frameworks, governance models, and scalable ways of working across diverse markets
- Leadership, stakeholder management, communication, influencing, and change leadership skills
- Advanced English proficiency
- Experience within FMCG or complex, matrixed organizations
- Exposure to both agency and in-house environments
What We Do
Essity - a globally leading hygiene and health company, breaking barriers to well-being. Our expertise in hygiene and health 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. Our barrier breakers innovate for good and contribute to shaping a sustainable future. At Essity, every career is as unique as the individual. We empower employees to excel together and reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose. We provide a sustainable work-life based on flexibility for both employees and employers. At Essity, 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, is to enable customers and consumers to lead fuller lives at all stages of life. Our leading global brands include TENA, Tork, Actimove, JOBST, Knix, Leukoplast, Libero, Libresse, Lotus, Modibodi, Nosotras, Saba, Tempo, TOM Organic, Vinda and Zewa. Essity has about 36,000 employees. Net sales in 2022 amounted to approximately SEK 156bn (EUR 15bn). The company’s headquarters is located 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
