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About the Role
Lead a strategically important procurement category focused on High Bay Warehouse (HBW) and end-to-end automated logistics, shaping the next generation of LEGO factories and scaling automation globally. This role involves managing a significant and growing spend portfolio, partnering with engineering and manufacturing teams, and driving innovation within the supply base.
Responsibilities
- Lead the global procurement strategy for HBW and end-to-end automated logistics, ensuring alignment with business priorities and automation ambitions.
- Act as a key business partner to engineering, Digital/IT, and manufacturing stakeholders to drive strategic automation projects.
- Own and manage a rapidly growing spend portfolio, delivering value, risk mitigation, and supplier performance.
- Build and execute long-term category and supplier strategies across automated logistics technologies and service models.
- Foster innovation with the supply base and internal partners to identify new technologies and supplier capabilities.
- Lead complex negotiations, supplier relationship management, and executive-level engagement with strategic suppliers.
- Provide strong people and matrix leadership to align global and local procurement resources.
- Influence cross-functional decision-making at Senior Manager and VP level.
- Strengthen business continuity, cyber, safety, operational resilience, and supplier risk management across critical automated logistics platforms.
Requirements
- Proven track record of leading global procurement categories with high strategic importance, complexity, and spend impact.
- 10 years of leadership experience in a senior procurement, supply chain, engineering, automation, or technology-enabled category role.
- Experience with automated logistics, intralogistics, warehouse automation, material handling systems, capital equipment, or complex project-based procurement.
- Strong ability to partner with technical, operational, and digital stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience managing strategic suppliers, supplier ecosystems, and executive-level supplier relationships.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders at Senior Manager and VP level, including in matrixed organizations.
- Strong commercial acumen, negotiation skills, and ability to deliver business value across cost, capacity, innovation, resilience, risk, and sustainability.
- Excellent communication skills and proficiency in English, written and spoken.
- High degree of flexibility, with potential for 30–50 days of travel per year.
Skills
- Strategic procurement leadership
- Business partnering
- Category management
- Automation
- Logistics
- Negotiation
- Supplier relationship management
- Matrix leadership
- Cross-functional influence
- Risk management
- Commercial acumen
- English proficiency
Location
- Billund
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Family Care Leave
- Life and disability insurance
- Wellbeing resources and benefits
- Colleague discount
- Bonus scheme
- Hybrid work policy (average 3 days per week in office)
About the Company
- The LEGO Group strives to create a diverse, dynamic, and inclusive culture of play where everyone feels safe, valued, and belongs.
- The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay.
- The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe.
Equal Opportunity
- Encourages 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.
- Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening.