Senior Category Manager

Roles & Responsibilities

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We're looking for a Senior Category Manager - Electronics Manufacturing Equipment to drive substantial value creation in ensuring excellence and optimizing capital investments and to enable new capabilities within the CAPEX community for contract and development of a new supply base.

Core Responsibilities:

• Development of Global Category Sourcing Plan and execution inclusive global suppliers management - End-to-End Value Chain perspective through Category Management Team(s)
• Responsible for global opportunities, sourcing and consolidation in close collaboration with key stakeholders in E&Q and Operations in general, including Global stakeholder management and KPI execution - Ensure benchmarking and continually market insight to secure we stay ahead of competition
• Strong collaboration with local teams from other procurement categories ensuring a "One Procurement" team approach to governance and compliance, especially across productionsite procurement
• Manage the contract process by acting as the single point of contact (for procurement, legal and finance) to the business stakeholders
• Supplier management securing a scalable and flexible global supply base, Conduct commercial negotiations and SRM - contracting / negotiations and performance, more over manage suppliers C-level to secure our businesses are developing in the same direction - Be a key player to secure external perspective and leverage TLG strategy
• Be accountable to all aspects of local / regional / global commercial governance including Code of Conduct, contract and PO compliance - Conduct operational performance review meetings & govern supplier relationships to foster mutual opportunities

Play your part in our team succeeding

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).

There is a significant value-creation potential in securing excellence and optimizing capital investments. Post purchase it is equally important to monitor 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 TLG to further grow.

Within CAPEX & MRO, Electronics Manufacturing equipment is a new, but important category with high impact on factory operations. The category is currently expanding as TLG expand portfolio within mechatronics, through a new innovative program. This expansion requires new capabilities within the CAPEX community for contract and category management of a new supply base.

Stakeholder management within this category is on L3-L5 level (SD and below level)

Do you have what it takes?

• Strategic flair and collaborative person with 3+ years of relevant expertice within procurement, relationship management with strategic suppliers, project management and/or engineering in a international company. Preferably with spend under management of min. 100 mDKK.
• Experience with CAPEX contract management especially Complex High Speed Automation Equipment and Sub-Assembly.
• Negotiation skills , experience with large,complex spend.
• Specialist knowledge within manufacturing equipment especially High Speed Automation Equipment and Sub-Assembly systems Knowledge and experience with Engineering processes
• 1-2 years leader partnering experience with strategic level – C-level at external suppliers, internal SD level
• International mobile, expect traveling 20-25 days a year

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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Negotiation
Contract Management
Relationship Management
Capex
Category Management
Procurement
Contracting Supplier
Value Creation
equipment
Stakeholder Management
Manufacturing
Sourcing

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