Strategic Sourcing Specialist (12 month cover)

Job Description

Are you ready for the next step in your procurement career?

Within CAPEX & MRO procurement we are global responsible for sourcing and defining the global category direction, including supply market intelligence, vendor selection and global contracting. We will drive this through strong and systematic category management on all sub categories (Moulding, Moulds & Moulds Manufacturing, Processing, Packing, HBW, Innovation support and Global MRO)!

• Support category plans and drive the category sourcing process, applying category insights as well as securing external perspectives, bringing to bear the LEGO Group’s strategy
• Being driver of analytics activities i.e supervise market and supplier development, ensuring benchmarking, support developing new suppliers
• Support in development and implementation of supply chain resiliency and business continuity plans for critical equipment suppliers in collaboration with the business.
• Strong collaboration with local teams from other procurement categories ensuring a “One Procurement” team approach to governance and compliance, especially across production-site procurement
• Supplier management, securing a scalable and flexible global supply base
• Conduct commercial negotiations

Play your part in our team succeeding!

There is a significant value-creation potential in securing excellence and optimizing capital investments. Post purchase it is equally important to supervise the total cost of ownership especially through following maintenance, repair, and operations. Sustain momentum and making way for balanced growth requires close collaboration across the eco-system. It's no longer just focusing on transparency about today's practices or about the footprint of the product, but on what the new value chain should look like as a system and how to get there at the right time with the right eco-system in order for The LEGO Group to reach even more children going forward.

Do you have what it takes?

• Collaborative approach; sees collaboration as means of creating results
• “Go do “ mentality, focus and result oriented.
• Analytic mentality, sees facts and analytic approach as foundations for accurate solutions
• Preferably 2-3 years of relevant expertise within procurement, project management and/or engineering in an international company
• Expect 10-15 days of travelling per year

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.

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