Head of Indirect Procurement, Senior Director, Corporate Procurement

We are seeking a Senior Director of Indirect Sourcing to drive and transform our global indirect category strategies and contribute to Lundbeck’s Focused Innovator Strategy and long-term growth. This is a high-impact role, where you will manage strategic sourcing and category management across a diverse range of categories, ensuring optimal value for the business while fostering compliance and operational best practices.

Your New Role

As the Senior Director of Indirect Sourcing, you will take responsibility for sourcing indirect goods and services across several key categories, including Professional Services, Digital Solutions, Travel and Fleet, Meetings & Events, Marketing, and Sales Related Activities. With a total annual spend in Lundbeck of approximately 8 billion DKK, this role requires strategic leadership to develop procurement strategies that drive cost savings, optimize supplier performance, and align with Lundbeck’s corporate goals.

You will be part of Corporate Procurement Leadership Team, contributing to overall Corporate Procurement strategy and deployment, development and implementation of operating models, annual strategic planning, and execution as well as performance management and departmental general management activities.

Your future team

Corporate Procurement is a global team of skilled professionals located in Copenhagen, Krakow, and Chicago. There is little hierarchy, we believe everyone’s voice should be heard and understand the significant value of differing opinions, backgrounds, and personalities.

You will lead a global team of Senior Category Managers, Category Managers, Lead Buyers, and Buyers that develop and execute category strategies for multiple categories in conjunction with cross-functional project teams. Through business partnering you and your team will influence buying behavior and thereby maximize category value globally by identifying key saving opportunities, applying various procurement levers, build governance and policies for demand management and ensure compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• People Leadership: you will set direction for indirect procurement in collaboration with your team and be expected to ensure that personal development and feedback is integrated in the day-to-day leadership of each individual.
• Category Leadership: Manage the sourcing and category management of indirect goods and services by applying a broad range of procurement strategies and levers, ensuring cost-effective, right quality, sustainable and timely procurement deliveries.
• Strategic Business Partnering: Regularly interact with budget owners at EVP, VP, and Director levels to create joint pipeline, drive savings initiatives, influence procurement organizational behaviors, and enforce sourcing policies.
• Value Creation: Focus on value creation through professional and transparent spend management, effective governance, clear accountability, and a functional mandate where Corporate Procurement becomes an integrated part of strategic business decisions related to external spend.
• Source-to-Pay Process: Strategically oversee and improve the global end-2-end procurement process for indirect categories, ensuring efficiency, transparency, and compliance across all stages of procurement.
• Supplier Management: Develop and manage relationships with key suppliers, ensuring performance meets Lundbeck’s standards on risk management, regulatory compliance, Lundbeck’s sustainability targets and business ethics.
• Pipeline Development and budget alignment: Identify savings opportunities for all indirect categories and work with budget owners and finance to anchor those savings within organizational budgets, ensuring transparent reporting and documentation.

The Senior Director position is based at our headquarters in Copenhagen/Valby, Denmark. Some international travel should be expected.

What you bring to the team

As our new Senior Director, you must first and foremost be a recognized and inclusive people leader, a strategist, and an honest influencer. You are someone who brings extensive functional experience to the table but understands that the best ideas and solutions come from inviting in and listening to diverse minds.

Qualifications:

• Accredited Master’s Degree preferably within Supply Chain/Procurement, Finance, or Economics.
• Minimum 5 years Procurement Leadership experience in leading teams in multiple countries with a focus on building diverse and high performing team in a global company environment.
• 5-10 years relevant work experience in strategic sourcing concepts and/or category management or methodologies across various spend categories.
• Effectively communicate to leadership at all levels of the organization regarding strategy, progress, and outcomes.
• Documented experience leading Procurement teams in a transformational environment preferably with consultancy experience (including high degree of project and change management skills).
• Strong business acumen with demonstrated success developing and executing on a multi-year strategy.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Our promise to you

Lundbeck offers an inspiring workplace and innovative culture, where our curiosity, accountability and adaptability enable us to transform lives. We want to go faster and further on addressing the big unmet needs of people living with brain disorders. We offer rewarding careers with a mix of exciting tasks and development opportunities that are balanced with initiatives focused on your well-being.

We need every brain in the game, and at Lundbeck, we are committed to building a workforce that is as diverse as the people we serve. Read more about our commitment at www.lundbeck.com/global/about-us/our-commitment/diversity-and-inclusion.

Apply now

Can you see yourself in this role? We want to hear from you. Does this sound like your dream job, but you’re not sure if you meet all the requirements? We still want to hear from you!

Upload your CV and include a few lines about your motivation for applying. We ask you not to include a photo or personal information that does not relate to your professional experience.

Applications must be received by January 5, 2025.

Learn more about us at www.lundbeck.com, LinkedIn or Instagram (@h_lundbeck).

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About Lundbeck
At Lundbeck, our most important contribution is easing the burden of the millions of people living with brain disorders. Whether it is migraine, depression, or other brain disorders, patients, their carers, and society as a whole depend on us.

Through cutting edge science and strong partnerships, we develop and market some of the world’s leading treatments, expanding into neuro-specialty and neuro-rare from our strong legacy within psychiatry and neurology.

The brain health challenge is real. Our commitment is real. Our impact is real.

About Lundbeck
At Lundbeck, our most important contribution is easing the burden of the millions of people living with brain disorders. Whether it is migraine, depression, or other brain disorders, patients, their carers, and society as a whole depend on us.

Through cutting edge science and strong partnerships, we develop and market some of the world’s leading treatments, expanding into neuro-specialty and neuro-rare from our strong legacy within psychiatry and neurology.

The brain health challenge is real. Our commitment is real. Our impact is real.