About the Role
Shape category plans for warehousing, transportation and customs services across regional distribution networks. Negotiate and maintain logistic contracts on warehousing, transportation, and customs services. Build supplier strategies with clear goals, service measures and commercial outcomes for each partnership. Partner with finance, regional management and suppliers to deliver savings without losing supply resilience. Translate market insights, automation trends and supplier data into practical category decisions.
Responsibilities
- Shape category plans for warehousing, transportation and customs services across regional distribution networks.
- Negotiate and maintain logistic contracts on warehousing, transportation, and customs services.
- Build supplier strategies with clear goals, service measures and commercial outcomes for each partnership.
- Partner with finance, regional management and suppliers to deliver savings without losing supply resilience.
- Translate market insights, automation trends and supplier data into practical category decisions.
Requirements
- Experience managing complex warehousing or distribution categories in an international environment.
- Strong experience sourcing and negotiating complex warehousing and/or distribution agreements.
- Proven ability to manage strategic supplier relationships and deliver measurable commercial outcomes.
- Experience working in a large multinational or highly matrixed organization.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence decisions across functions and levels without direct authority.
- Commercial acumen combined with an analytical mindset and the ability to translate market insights into sourcing strategies.
- Knowledge of logistics market dynamics, warehousing operations, and emerging trends such as automation, sustainability, and network optimization.
- Experience navigating ambiguity and driving results in changing business environments.
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken.
Skills
- Logistics procurement
- Category management
- Strategic sourcing
- Stakeholder management
- Commercial acumen
- Analytical mindset
- Market insights translation
- Logistics market dynamics
- Warehousing operations
- Automation trends
- Sustainability
- Network optimization
Location
- Billund, Denmark
- London, United Kingdom
Work Type
- Hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office.
Experience Level
- Building their careers within logistics procurement, category management, or strategic sourcing
Benefits
- Family Care Leave
- Insurances
- Wellbeing resources and benefits
- Colleague Discount
- Bonus scheme
- Relocation support is offered for Billund only.
About the Company
- The LEGO Group is highly 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
