Sr. Director, CAPEX MRO Procurement

Job Description

Join Our Team as Senior Director of Procurement – CAPEX & MRO!

Step into a role where strategic leadership meets innovation, driving the future of CAPEX and MRO procurement. As a pivotal member of both the Procurement and Engineering Leadership Teams, this position is at the forefront of aligning capital project investments with operational excellence and sustainability!

Core Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Define and lead the global CAPEX & MRO procurement strategy, aligned with enterprise, engineering, procurement and operational goals.
• Partner with the Engineering Leadership Team to influence capital planning, technology selection, and project execution strategies.
• Embed procurement early in the front-end engineering and design process to shape specifications, drive value engineering, and identify innovation opportunities (with suppliers and supply markets).

Supplier Innovation & Front-End Procurement

• Proactively engage at the concept and design stages to leverage emerging technologies, materials, and process innovations before specifications are finalized.
• Drive a supplier diversification with focus on low cost country sourcing manufacturing platforms.
• Develop regional or local sourcing strategies and support arrangements for manufacturing facility infrastructure.
• Build and sustain a network of strategic, innovation-focused suppliers that contribute to the company’s competitive advantage.
• Partner with Engineering and Operations to co-develop solutions that improve performance, sustainability, and lifecycle cost.
• Facilitate early supplier involvement (ESI) workshops and technology scouting initiatives to bring external innovation into internal design decisions.

Category & Supplier Management

• Lead sourcing and contracting for global CAPEX projects, plant expansions, and critical equipment.
• Oversee MRO category management to optimize spend, reduce downtime, and standardize parts and suppliers.
• Establish and maintain strategic supplier partnerships to ensure performance, innovation, and resilience across the supply base.
• Drive total cost of ownership (TCO) improvements through commercial excellence, process efficiency, and lifecycle management.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators across cost, schedule, quality, and supplier performance.
• Leverage data analytics and digital procurement tools to enable real-time visibility and decision-making.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a global team of procurement professionals with deep category and technical expertise.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Build capability for a future-ready CAPEX & MRO organisation grounded in curiosity, courage, and collaboration, bringing our LEGO® Values to life through care, creativity, and continuous learning.
• Partner closely with Engineering, Operations, Finance, and Legal to ensure seamless integration and execution of procurement strategies.
• Develop and embed procurement discipline and systems across engineering teams, thus enabling procurement teams to focus on high value activities and supply base development.

Ethics and Integrity

• Apply high ethical standards and principles of integrity, honesty and legality. Comply with the LEGO Code of Ethical Business Conduct (‘Ethics Code’), even if it means losing business or reducing profitability.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Senior Director, Procurement Leader – CAPEX & MRO is a strategic and operational responsible for developing and executing the global procurement strategy for Capital Expenditures (CAPEX) and Maintenance, Repair & Operations (MRO) categories. Reporting directly to the Chief Procurement Officer (CPO), this role is a key member of both the Procurement Leadership Team and the Engineering Leadership Team, ensuring full alignment between capital project investments, asset lifecycle management, innovation-driven operational excellence and sustainability.

This leader will drive value creation, supplier innovation, and early supplier engagement to shape solutions, ensuring procurement acts as a strategic enabler in the front end of engineering and capital project development.

The Senior Director, CAPEX & MRO reports to the SVP, Chief Procurement Officer, and is a full member of the Procurement Leadership Team. As a member of the Procurement Leadership Team, they play a critical part in the overall procurement transformation journey.

Do you have what it takes

• 15+ years of successful track record as a global senior leader with a strong engineering background and commercial acumen within a global matrix organisation.
• Extensive expertise operating at a strategic level, whilst delivering value and cost savings through continuous improvement, cultivating innovation and sustainability.
• Strong command of front-end procurement and engineering collaboration, enabling early influence on investment decisions, design optimization, and end-to-end lifecycle value creation.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing equipment development and design processes and ways of working to enable effective collaboration with technical and operational leaders.
• Direct experience of leading end to end procurement, contracting and commercial management processes within complex capital projects.
• Established relationships across the supply base of machinery and manufacturing site infrastructure, with strong process understanding on market technology scanning and early supplier engagement in Engineering R&D activities.
• Proven success leading and inspiring large, diverse, and multicultural teams, with strong followership.
• Compelling communicator with strategic clarity with the ability to influence senior stakeholders around a shared purpose.
• Advanced capability in complex contracting and negotiations, including knowledge of IP, data protection regulations.
• Exceptional ability to collaborate and influence at the most senior levels across a global set up, as a trusted business partner.
• A track record of driving supply base diversification with direct link to value creation, including low cost country sourcing.
• Expertise in strategic supplier relationship management.
• It would be highly beneficial to have an Engineering degree

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.

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