Category Manager, Packing Equipment (12-month fixed-term parental leave cover contract)

Job Description

Category Manager, Packing Equipment (12-month fixed-term parental leave cover contract)

Job Description

Are you motivated by procurement roles where your work directly impacts global manufacturing, automation and future factory growth?

We’re looking for a Category Manager for Packing Equipment to join the LEGO Group either base in Billund or in Kladno. This is a 12-month fixed-term parental leave cover contract.

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Within CAPEX & MRO Procurement, we are globally responsible for sourcing and defining the category direction across key investment and operational areas. We drive this through strong and systematic category management, supply market intelligence, supplier selection, global contracting and supplier relationship management.

In the Packing Equipment team, we support one of the key areas enabling The LEGO Group’s global manufacturing footprint. Packing Equipment plays a critical role in securing capacity, operational stability and the future automation agenda across our factories.

We are now looking for a Category Manager to cover a parental leave in the Packing Equipment team.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to step into a global category with high relevance for factory operations and future growth. You will support sourcing activities, supplier engagement, contract management and category execution across Packing Equipment.

The area is developing rapidly, with increasing demand for scalable supplier platforms, cost transparency, automation capabilities and strong commercial foundations. This means the role is not only about supporting today’s projects, but also about contributing to the supplier ecosystem needed for the future.

You will collaborate closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Manufacturing, R&D and Procurement, with exposure to senior stakeholders at Senior Director level and below.

Why this role is attractive

You will join a team working on a highly strategic and business-critical category, where procurement has a direct impact on investment decisions, supplier performance, total cost of ownership and long-term value creation.

This role offers the chance to gain strong exposure to global CAPEX projects, strategic suppliers and cross-functional collaboration while helping us sustain momentum in a category that is central to enabling balanced growth.

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

Do you have what it takes?

• Education in Engineering or business-related field

• 3+ years of relevant experience within procurement, category management, supplier relationship management, project management and/or engineering in an international company.
• Strong procurement background within technical categories, preferably CAPEX, manufacturing equipment, automation, packing equipment, engineering services or similar complex spend areas.
• Experience managing significant spend, ideally with exposure to categories or projects above 200 mDKK spend under management or similarly complex investment scopes.
• Solid contract management experience, preferably within CAPEX, development projects, technical equipment, or project-based supplier agreements.
• Proven negotiation skills, with experience handling large, complex and/or technical supplier negotiations.
• Ability to partner with senior stakeholders, including internal stakeholders up to Senior Director level and strategic suppliers at senior management level.
•  Good understanding of manufacturing equipment systems and engineering processes, with the ability to work confidently with technical stakeholders.
• International mindset and mobility, with willingness to travel approximately 15–20 days per year to suppliers, LEGO sites or key project locations.

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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.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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