Specialist, Procurement Centre of Excellence

**Procurement Transformation **is a global set up and is part of the Global Procurement team that is 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 Sr. Sourcing Specialist reports to the Director, Procurement Transformation. The outcomes that this role has implications for evolving procurement ways of working for procurement employees of the company.

The Procurement organisation 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 **.
**Responsibility**:

- **Executing procurement operational activities **to support the global Procurement teams:

- **Supplier on-boarding**:

- Supplier risk assessments and on-boarding actions
- **Compliance Contract Management**:

- Facilitating the completion and signature of compliance related appendices e.g. GDPR, Cyber Security, Responsible Business Principle, Confidentiality etc.
- **Contract record management**:

- Contract updates and contract data integrity, supporting Procurement teams to cleanse data as required
- **Content management**:

- Support category teams in creating/maintaining global catalogues/requisition forms (in Coupa)

**Additional scope, in the future may include -**:

- **E-sourcing**:

- Creation and execution of e-RFx, e-Auctions and advanced sourcing processes (Coupa CSO)
- **Tail spend management **- Responsible for management of transactional spend/suppliers
- **Required to be the Procurement system (Coupa) experts**:

- Providing technical/functional support to Procurement teams, business stakeholders and suppliers
- Responsible for **optimizing processes **for operational activities as required

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor level degree desirable, but not essential
- Minimum of 2 years corporate experience - ideally in a Procurement/Finance environment with an understanding of Procurement processes and responsibilities
- Good stakeholder management, with ability to partner across the organisation to support Procurement priorities
- Good sense of prioritisation, organisational skills and time management, with the ability to work under pressure to deadlines
- Capacity to thrive in a fast-paced, challenging, and 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 stakeholders and external suppliers.

**Nice to have**:

- Experience of working with E-Procurement systems desirable (Preferably Coupa) platforms - e-sourcing, raising PO’s, creating suppliers, conduct risk assessments and completing compliance contract appendices

**What’s in it for you?**:
**Here are some of what to 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.
- **Wellness **- We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
- **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.
- **Your workplace **- When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. The hiring team will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model 'Best of Both', role eligibility and frequency with you during the recruitment process.

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