Category Manager

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; Hybrid; DKK 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Hybrid Working

Job summary

LEGO Group is seeking a Global Category Manager for Professional Services to drive global procurement strategy across Payroll, Legal, and Risk & Insurance. You will partner with senior stakeholders and suppliers to shape demand, manage complex negotiations, and deliver sustained commercial value.

You will build global category plans, develop supplier partnerships, and lead strategic sourcing initiatives across a global organization, including travel and coordination with regional teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of procurement experience in Professional Services or similar.
• Translate business priorities into global category plans.
• Negotiate global service agreements and challenge pricing models.
• Build trusted senior stakeholder relationships and engage early in planning.
• Analyze spend and supplier performance to identify opportunities.
• Manage multiple sourcing initiatives including segmentation and risk.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver global procurement category plans for Payroll, Legal, and Risk & Insurance.
• Develop a global payroll vendor strategy with functional stakeholders.
• Lead complex global sourcing, contracting, and negotiations.
• Track spend, value delivery, and category performance with clear updates.
• Embed supplier performance management and safeguards in contracts.

Skills

Procurement experience

Category planning

Negotiation

Communication

Stakeholder mgmt

Analytics

Sourcing management

Digital/AI awareness

English proficiency

Education

Degree in Business / related field

Job description

Job Description Ready to shape global procurement strategies and create value across Professional Services? Are you commercially minded, strategic, and confident in building strong partnerships across a global organization? Join the LEGO Group as a Global Category Manager, Professional Services and take ownership of global procurement strategies across Payroll, Legal, and Risk & Insurance. You will partner with senior stakeholders and suppliers to shape demand, lead complex sourcing and negotiations, strengthen supplier performance, and deliver sustainable commercial value and innovation. The role is based in Billund, Denmark, or London, UK.

Core Responsibilities Own and deliver global procurement category plans for Payroll, Legal, and Risk & Insurance, aligning priorities with business needs and measurable value, service, and resilience outcomes. Build trusted stakeholder partnerships, engaging early to shape demand, challenge requirements, and translate business priorities into a coordinated procurement pipeline. Develop a global payroll vendor strategy with functional stakeholders, strengthening supplier management, digital capabilities, and business continuity. Partner with Legal and BSO to evolve third-party legal partnerships, embedding supplier performance management and improving commercial arrangements. Lead complex global sourcing, contracting, and negotiations, improving pricing models and delivering savings, productivity, and service value beyond rate reductions. Drive supplier segmentation, performance reviews, and compliance monitoring, working with functional experts to manage supplier risks, escalations, and business continuity. Use market intelligence to identify supplier, platform, and AI opportunities, partnering with Digital Procurement and functional experts to capture productivity gains and embed appropriate contractual safeguards. Track spend, value delivery, and category performance, providing clear stakeholder updates and coordinating delivery across regional, site, and sourcing teams.

Play Your Part in Our Team Succeeding Indirect Materials and Services Sourcing is a global organisation focused on sourcing excellence, strong business partnerships, and effective supplier relationship management across multiple categories, including Professional Services. As a Global Category Manager, you will support the Professional Services category within the CFO business unit, developing category strategies, delivering commercial value, strengthening supplier and stakeholder relationships, and identifying opportunities for innovation.

Do You Have What It Takes?

Must-Have Qualifications

• 7+ years of procurement experience, including strategic sourcing and category management within Professional Services.
• Ability to translate business priorities into global category plans, balancing commercial value, service quality, compliance, and business continuity.
• Strong commercial judgement and experience negotiating global service agreements, challenging pricing models, and delivering measurable value.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex commercial topics into clear recommendations for stakeholders and decision-makers.
• Ability to build trusted senior stakeholder relationships, engage early in business planning, and constructively challenge demand and buying practices.
• Strong analytical skills, using spend, market, and supplier performance insights to identify opportunities, inform decisions, and track outcomes.
• Experience managing multiple sourcing and supplier initiatives, including segmentation, performance reviews, supplier risk, and resilience.
• Digital fluency and an understanding of AI, automation, and service platforms within Professional Services.
• Advanced English skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• A degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance, or a related field.
• Experience in Payroll, Legal, or Risk & Insurance procurement.
• Previous experience working with Danish companies.
• Flexibility to travel globally.

Personal Competencies

• Commercially minded and analytical.
• Confident in building relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Collaborative and relationship-focused.
• Comfortable challenging requirements and established ways of working.
• Curious and proactive, with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Comfortable taking ownership and navigating ambiguity.

What's In It For You?

By joining the LEGO Group, you will become part of a global procurement organisation focused on sourcing excellence, strong business partnerships, and effective supplier relationship management. You will have the opportunity to shape global Professional Services categories, lead complex sourcing and commercial negotiations, strengthen strategic supplier partnerships, and drive new approaches to value creation, digitalization, and innovation.

• 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.
• Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.
• Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.
• Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here
• 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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