Full-Time
Key Account Manager
MDD
Updated on 8/23/2026
Essity
10,001+ employees
Hygiene and health products company
No salary listed
Paris, France
Hybrid
Hybrid schedule with two telework days per week.
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- At least 8 years of professional experience, including a minimum of 3 years as a National Key Account Manager or National Strategic Account Manager.
- Required experience in large-scale retail distribution, ideally with private-label products.
- Experience working in structured and demanding environments.
- Ability to lead cross-functionally and influence without hierarchical authority.
- Analytical mindset, results orientation, and customer focus.
- Fluency in English.
- Lead the commercial strategy for strategic accounts, including annual plans, negotiations, tenders, and profitable development.
- Develop competitive and innovative private-label offerings in close collaboration with Trade Marketing, Quality, Research and Development, and Manufacturing teams.
- Orchestrate industrial projects end to end, including specifications, feasibility, cost optimization, and launches.
- Ensure customer-side operational excellence through supply reliability, production coordination, and risk management.
- Analyze business performance and activate growth and profitability levers.
- Represent the customer voice internally and rally teams around business priorities.
- Experience with private-label products in large-scale retail distribution.
Essity is a global hygiene and health products company. Its portfolio includes consumer tissue, professional hygiene, incontinence products, wound care, compression therapy, orthopedics, and related medical solutions. Products are used by consumers, healthcare professionals, patients, institutions, retailers, and workplaces. The company combines product development, regulated healthcare expertise, manufacturing, brand management, supply chain, and commercial operations. Teams work across research, engineering, manufacturing, quality, medical affairs, sales, marketing, logistics, and corporate services.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Sweden
Founded
1929
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Essity's sustainability goals align with global trends in eco-friendly packaging.
- The rise of remote work boosts demand for Essity's home hygiene products.
- Essity's e-commerce expansion taps into emerging markets' growing consumer base.
What critics are saying
- Private label brands increase competition in the hygiene sector.
- Rising raw material costs threaten Essity's profit margins.
- Labor strikes in Europe could disrupt Essity's supply chain.
What makes Essity unique
- Essity is recognized on CDP's A List for climate leadership.
- Essity's Cushelle Simply Soft targets cost-conscious consumers with premium quality.
- Tork Vision Cleaning celebrates 10 years of data-driven cleaning technology.
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Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
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Paid Vacation
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Hybrid Work Options
Wellness Program
Company News
Essity on CDP's prestigious A List for Climate.
Essity on CDP’s prestigious A List for climate
Essity today held the Annual General Meeting at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Sweden.STOCKHOLM, March 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Meeting approved the Parent Company income statement and balance sheet and the consolidated income statement and consolidated balance sheet for 2024.The meeting resolved on a dividend for the financial year 2024 of SEK 8.25 per share. Record date for the dividend is set to Monday, March 31, 2025. The dividend is expected to be distributed by Euroclear Sweden AB on Thursday, April 3, 2025.The Meeting resolved that the remuneration to each director elected by the Annual General Meeting who is not employed by the company shall amount to SEK 960,000 and the Chairman of the Board of Directors is to receive SEK 2,880,000. Each member of the Remuneration Committee is to receive an additional remuneration of SEK 145,000, while the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee is to receive an additional remuneration of SEK 170,000. Each member of the Audit Committee is to receive an additional remuneration of SEK 350,000, while the Chairman of the Audit Committee is to receive an additional remuneration of SEK 490,000. Remuneration to the auditor is to be paid according to approved invoice.The Annual General Meeting resolved in accordance with the Board of Director's proposal on a cash-based incentive program
Essity today held the Annual General Meeting at Stockholm Waterfront Congress Centre, Sweden. The Meeting approved the Parent Company income statement and balance sheet and the consolidated income statement and consolidated balance sheet for 2024. The meeting resolved on a dividend for the financial year 2024 of SEK 8.25 per share. Record date for the dividend is set to Monday, March 31, 2025. The dividend is expected to be distributed by Euroclear Sweden AB on Thursday, April 3, 2025. The Meeting resolved that the remuneration to each director elected by the Annual General Meeting who