Category Manager - Digital Technology

Job Description

Are you curious and want to build exciting experiences for our highly collaborative Procurement team?

Then come and join our Indirect Materials and Services Sourcing team at the LEGO Group!

Core Responsibilities

• Support leadership and influencing activities among partners, finance, and suppliers to drive companywide cost initiatives in the IT Software & Cloud Services spends.
• Have experience of Marketing technology and contracting for Agile delivery models.
• Help identify and facilitate conversations with partners regarding opportunities for technology innovation.
• Accountable for category critical metric progress (e.g. PO Compliance, Vendor Rationalisation).
• Support the building of market insight to identify trends and translate them into category strategies/plans and robust actions leading to efficiency improvements.
• Negotiate contracts with SaaS suppliers.
• Build and maintain a Global supplier base - including contracting, negotiations, risk management, sustainability, and supplier performance.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Indirect Materials and Services Sourcing is a global organization focused on driving excellence in sourcing, being strong business partners with the internal customers, and driving supplier relationship management. The organization is responsible for Facility, Travel, Professional Services, and IT categories procurement globally.

As the LEGO Group expands globally, the investment in IT is growing as well, and the procurement team needs additional resources to manage the growing demand.

Do you have what it takes?

• Proven experience of IT sourcing – Marketing Technology Software/SaaS Services.
• Understanding and experience negotiating SaaS contracts and related commercial/license models.
• Preferable global category management experience, minimum EMEA category management experience.
• Knowledge of developing and performing sourcing strategies.
• Knowledge of supporting agile processes, fast contracting with start-ups for pilots and experimentation.
• Understanding of procurement processes.
• Advanced influencing skills, the ability to communicate effectively and confidently with individuals at various levels.
• Experience of leading and delivering multiple projects successfully.

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.

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

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.

Join the LEGO team today.