Manager, Procurement Centre of Excellence

Job Description
Do you have technical and commercial understanding of procurement within manufacturing environment and motivated by working in a distributed team?
Bring your commercial, analytical, and interpersonal skills to the table and help shape the way the LEGO® Group procures globally!

Core Responsibilities
As a Manager in the Procurement Centre of Excellence, you will work closely with both direct and indirect procurement categories to identify opportunities that enhance core procurement processes globally. You will focus on optimising procurement workflows, leveraging technology, and driving excellence in sourcing and risk management. Responsibilities will include:

• Process optimisation – End-to-end procurement process optimisation, focusing on utilising technology (including artificial intelligence where applicable)
• Sourcing excellence – adoption of automated sourcing, e-auctions & complex sourcing digital tools
• Tail spend management – Support the development of tools and process to manage of non-strategic spend for the category teams

Play your part in our team succeeding
Procurement Transformation is part of the Global procurement team, center-led and functional driven, fully integrated into the LEGO Groups’ systems and processes that connect the overall business strategy & requirements with the global product categories and regional procurement teams.

The Manager, Procurement Centre of Excellence reports to the Director, Procurement Transformation and will support in the evolution of the digital ways of working for procurement employees of the company.

The Procurement organization is mainly based across the LEGO hubs and sites; Billund, Singapore, Shanghai, Enfield, London, Shenzhen, and in other manufacturing locations: Czech Republic, Hungary, China, and Mexico.

Do you have what it takes?
You probably hold a Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Business Management with focus on Supply chain, Legal or Finance and have:

• Procurement experience, preferably in direct category (e.g. materials purchasing)
• Experience working with procurement systems (like SAP, Coupa or other P2P platforms)
• Experience working with process optimisation methodologies such as Lead or Six Sigma is desirable
• An understanding of the application of artificial intelligence in procurement
• Experience in optimizing processes will be an advantage
• Proven corporate experience – ideally in a Procurement/Finance or IT environment with an understanding of Procurement processes and responsibilities
• Good stakeholder management skills, with ability to partner across the organization to support procurement priorities
• Excellent organizational skills, with an ability to work under pressure and to prioritize with challenging demands
• Capacity to thrive in a fast-paced, challenging, and sometimes unpredictable environment
• Be seen as a true value driver, with the confidence to highlight and deliver on opportunities to improve
• Ability to effectively communicate, collaborate and maintain relationships with both internal collaborators and external suppliers
• Fluency or full proficiency in English oral and written

The position is based in Billund, DK and relocation support is not offered for this role.
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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

• Location
  • Billund, Denmark
  • London, United Kingdom
• Job ID:
  0000023968
• Category
  Quality Management