Sr. Category Manager, Automation & MRO

the LEGO Group; Billund; On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Insurances

Wellbeing

Colleague Discount

Bonus

Workplace – hybrid policy

Job summary

The LEGO Group, based in Billund, Denmark, seeks a Sr. Category Manager for Automation & MRO to lead the global category direction for operational technologies, with emphasis on automation and robotics.

You will shape long-term sourcing strategies and guide supplier selection to support multi-year business objectives across the LEGO Group. Working at the intersection of procurement, engineering and manufacturing, you will help strengthen resilience, governance and value creation, building a

Qualifications

• Led procurement, category management, project management, or engineering activities within an international company for 5+ years.
• Managed spend portfolios of at least 100 mDKK.
• Built and maintained relationships with strategic suppliers.
• Directed stakeholder engagement at senior management levels, including L4-L5 stakeholders.
• Negotiated commercial agreements and managed contract lifecycles for significant spend areas.
• Partnered with engineering and planning functions and worked with automation and robotics suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement the end-to-end global category plan for operational technologies, focused on automation and robotics.
• Drive the global MRO community and strengthen governance, compliance, standardisation, and supplier consolidation across sites.
• Increase commercial readiness across the supplier base while supporting technical and manufacturing maturity.
• Create a scalable and competitive supplier ecosystem through strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, and C-level engagement.
• Establish supply chain resilience and business continuity plans for critical suppliers.
• Act as the single procurement point of contact for contracts and commercial alignment with business stakeholders.
• Connect emerging automation technologies with supplier capabilities to support future business needs.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Category management

Stakeholder engagement

Negotiation

Tools

SAP

Coupa

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Description

Just imagine a global supplier ecosystem that keeps automation, robotics, and manufacturing operations ready to support growth for millions more children. Then make it real.

About The Role

As our Sr. Category Manager, Automation & MRO, you'll lead the global category direction for operational technologies, with a focus on automation and robotics. You'll shape long-term sourcing strategies, guide supplier selection, and ensure commercial decisions support multi-year business objectives across the LEGO® Group. Working at the intersection of procurement, engineering, manufacturing, and supplier management, you'll help strengthen resilience, readiness, and value creation across a category that directly impacts production capacity and growth ambitions.

Required Qualifications

• Led procurement, category management, project management, or engineering activities within an international company for 5+ years.
• Managed spend portfolios of at least 100 mDKK.
• Built and maintained relationships with strategic suppliers.
• Directed stakeholder engagement at senior management levels, including L4-L5 stakeholders.
• Negotiated commercial agreements and managed contract lifecycles for significant spend areas.
• Partnered with engineering and planning functions and worked with automation and robotics suppliers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Used SAP and Microsoft Office tools in a procurement or sourcing environment.
• Applied sourcing platforms such as Coupa to procurement activities.
• Conducted cost analysis to support sourcing and supplier decisions.
• Worked with Industry 4.0 or Smart Factory initiatives.

What you'll build

• Develop and implement the end-to-end global category plan for operational technologies, focused on automation and robotics.
• Drive the global MRO community and strengthen governance, compliance, standardisation, and supplier consolidation across sites.
• Increase commercial readiness across the supplier base while supporting technical and manufacturing maturity.
• Create a scalable and competitive supplier ecosystem through strategic sourcing, supplier relationship management, and C-level engagement.
• Establish supply chain resilience and business continuity plans for critical suppliers.
• Act as the single procurement point of contact for contracts and commercial alignment with business stakeholders.
• Connect emerging automation technologies with supplier capabilities to support future business needs.

You'd feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to create long-term value while balancing resilience, flexibility, and commercial performance.

Life on the team

You'll join the CAPEX & MRO Procurement team, which is responsible for global sourcing, category direction, market intelligence, vendor selection, and contracting across several manufacturing-related categories. We work closely across sites and functions to support sustainable growth and optimise total cost of ownership. Collaboration is central to how we work, and you'll be part of a team that values partnership, alignment, and shared success.

What success looks like

Success means building a supplier base that can support evolving automation and robotics ambitions while maintaining flexibility, resilience, sustainability, compliance, and lead-time performance. Over the next 12 to 18 months, you'll help strengthen category maturity and support growth plans through strong partnerships with technical leaders, procurement colleagues, and strategic suppliers. Your work will help ensure the right capabilities are in place at the right time to support the future of LEGO manufacturing.

The position is based in Billund, DK and relocation support is not offered for this role.

Benefits

• 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. Just imagine building your dream career. Then make it real.