Procurement professionals in Beauty and personal care
Packaging, contract manufacturing and indirect spend each have specialists among these beauty and personal care buyers, such as a former L'Oréal Global Category Purchasing Director for plastic containers and closures and Estée Lauder's director of third party manufacturing procurement for skincare and haircare. P&G, Unilever, Shiseido, Huda Beauty and Sol de Janeiro are among their employers, useful for picking a contract manufacturer or sourcing packaging.
Professionals to explore
Amanda Albaum
LinkedInExperience: Director, Global Indirect Procurement · Sol de Janeiro
Indirect procurement runs through Amanda Albaum's roles: Director, Global Indirect Procurement at Sol de Janeiro since 2025, after Senior Manager Indirect Procurement there (2024-2025); Manager Indirect Procuremnt at Shiseido (2016-2024); and Buyer (Assistant Manager) Global Indirect Procurement (2014-2016) and Associate Buyer Global Indirect Procurement (2012-2014) at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. That makes Amanda a fit for setting up indirect buying at a beauty brand.
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Caroline Sauvan
LinkedInExperience: Purchasing Director - Professional Products Division · L'Oréal
L'Oréal's Purchasing Director - Professional Products Division since 2025, Caroline Sauvan took that title after MiuMiu Beauty Operations Integration Director (2024-2025). Caroline was also Global Category Purchasing Director - Plastic Containers & Closures (2019-2024), Make-Up Purchasing Manager (2016-2019) and Haircare Packaging Purchasing Manager (2014-2016) at L'Oréal, which makes Caroline the person here for packaging category questions.
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Eric Leff
LinkedInExperience: Assistant Vice President Sourcing, Operations Americas · L'Oréal
Direct sourcing of raw materials and packaging, and indirect sourcing of facilities and CAPEX, are among the specialties Eric Leff names. Eric has been Assistant Vice President Sourcing, Operations Americas at L'Oréal since 2017, after Director of Procurement, Operations Americas (2015-2017), and was Senior Procurement Manager (2008-2015) and Manager, Purchasing (1999-2007) at Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
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Jiali Zhuo
LinkedInExperience: Regional Indirect Procurement Director · Shiseido
Jiali Zhuo is Regional Indirect Procurement Director at Shiseido (since 2024) and was Regional Head of Indirect Procurement JPAC at Galderma (2021-2024). At Procter & Gamble, Jiali was SKII Senior Sourcing Manager (2020-2021), Global Travel Retail Senior Purchasing Manager (2017-2019) and Senior Sourcing Manager for Asia Content Production (2015-2017), and describes 15+ years of indirect sourcing.
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Krishan Awatar Agarwal
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Global Beauty Care Purchases · Procter & Gamble
Krishan Awatar Agarwal has been Vice President, Global Beauty Care Purchases at Procter & Gamble since 2024 and was Senior Director Beauty Care Purchasing (2019-2024). Krishan's other P&G roles were Purchasing Associate Director for Brand & Business Services APAC (2014-2019), Marketing & Sales Services Purchasing Leader (2013-2014) and Purchasing Group Manager- Chemicals & Ingredients (2010-2013), and Krishan cites contract manufacturing, packaging and licensing work.
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Michael Curran
LinkedInExperience: Former Director Of Purchasing, Key Account Manager, Beauty Care Americas · Henkel
Sourcing and production questions at IPSY, eSalon and Henkel fit Michael Curran, Director of Procurement at Xponential Fitness since 2026. Michael was also Director of Purchasing at eSalon (2024-2025), Director of Procurement at UNFI (2024), Director of Sourcing & Production Empowered and Package at IPSY (2022-2023) and Director Of Purchasing, Key Account Manager, Beauty Care Americas at Henkel (2021-2022).
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Priscila Pires
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Purchasing · Huda Beauty
Priscila Pires has been Senior Sourcing Director at Kendo Brands, Inc. since 2022. At Huda Beauty, Priscila was Senior Director Purchasing (2020-2021), Vice President Supply Chain - Procurement NPD S&OP (2021), Vice President of Supply Chain (2021-2022) and Vice President of Purchasing (2022), and describes contract manufacturing procurement in cosmetics, a fit for questions on working with contract manufacturers.
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Sarah Su
LinkedInExperience: Director, Global Third Party Manufacturing Procurement - Skincare & Haircare · The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Since 2026, Sarah Su has been Director, Global Third Party Manufacturing Procurement - Skincare & Haircare at The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. Other Estée Lauder roles were Director, Global Supplier Management - Bobbi Brown & MAC (2022-2026), Director, Brand Procurement - Estee Lauder (2019-2022) and Manager, Brand Procurement - Estee Lauder (2017-2019), and Sarah was Purchasing Manager Supply Chain Operations at StriVectin Operating Company (2013-2017).
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Smita Shetty
LinkedInExperience: Procurement Director Beauty & Wellbeing - South Asia and contract manufacturing · Unilever
At Unilever, Smita Shetty has been Procurement Director Beauty & Wellbeing - South Asia and contract manufacturing since 2024. Smita also held Director Global Procurement - Transformation (2024), Procurement Strategy and insights manager - beauty and wellbeing (2023-2024), Senior procurement manager - foods commodities & ingredients (2022-2024) and Procurement Manager commodities and ingredients, south asia (2019-2022), a fit for contract manufacturing and ingredient questions.
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Vanessa Broichhausen
LinkedInExperience: Director Purchasing & Planning Management · BABOR BEAUTY GROUP
At BABOR BEAUTY GROUP, Vanessa Broichhausen has been Director Purchasing & Planning Management since 2023, after Head of Purchasing & Planning Management (2020-2023) and Leitung Produktionsplanung und -steuerung (2004-2020) there. Sixteen years of production planning before the purchasing role make Vanessa a fit for questions on matching raw material buying to production schedules.
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Choose the right perspective
Krishan Awatar Agarwal is the pick for category strategy across P&G's beauty business. Sarah Su, Smita Shetty and Priscila Pires fit contract manufacturing, Caroline Sauvan and Eric Leff packaging and raw materials, Jiali Zhuo and Amanda Albaum indirect procurement, and Vanessa Broichhausen purchasing tied to production planning.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you pick a contract manufacturer for a new skincare line and protect the formula?
- 02What minimum order quantities and lead times should a beauty brand expect for custom packaging?
- 03How do you manage ingredient supply when a key raw material has only one or two approved sources?
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