Procurement Category Manager – Warehousing & Distribution

Lego Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing programs

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid workplace policy

Job summary

The LEGO Group is seeking a Procurement Category Manager in Global Procurement, based in Billund or London. You will be a trusted partner to drive cost savings, resilience, sustainability and risk mitigation in warehousing and distribution solutions.

Join a growing team managing indirect services across facilities, construction, professional services, travel and distribution, with a focus on warehousing and distribution.

Qualifications

• Experience sourcing and negotiating warehousing and/or distribution agreements.
• Experience in a large multinational or matrixed organization.
• Strong stakeholder management with ability to influence without direct authority.
• Commercial acumen paired with an analytical mindset.
• Knowledge of logistics market dynamics, automation and sustainability trends.

Responsibilities

• Shape category plans for warehousing, transportation and customs services across regional distribution networks.
• Negotiate and maintain warehousing, transportation, and customs contracts.
• Build supplier strategies with clear goals, service levels and commercial outcomes.
• Partner with finance, regional management and suppliers to deliver savings while maintaining supply resilience.
• Translate market insights into practical sourcing strategies.

Skills

Warehousing

Distribution

Logistics procurement

Category management

Strategic sourcing

Supplier management

Stakeholder management

Analytical mindset

English fluency

Job description

Job Description Just imagine shaping how LEGO® products move around the world. Then make it real. This Procurement Category Manager role sits in Global Procurement, based in Billund or London. You'll join us as a trusted business partner to actively support our strategy on cost-saving, supply chain resilience, sustainability, risk mitigation, and source warehousing and distribution solutions that keep play moving! Play your part in our team succeeding The Indirect Materials & Services Procurement team buys services across Facilities, Construction, Digital, Professional Services, Travel and Distribution for the LEGO® Group. We are experiencing significant growth and expansion, rapidly opening new markets and channels worldwide. You will source sustainable Warehousing and Distribution solutions and establish strong category expertise within the Distribution team.

Core 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.

Do you have what it takes? We're particularly interested in candidates who are building their careers within logistics procurement, category management, or strategic sourcing and have experience managing complex warehousing or distribution categories in an international environment.

Success in this role requires curiosity, resilience, strong commercial judgment, and the ability to influence a diverse stakeholder network while balancing cost, service, risk, and sustainability priorities.

More specifically, you have:

• 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

This role can be based in Billund, Denmark, or London, United Kingdom.

Relocation support is offered for Billund only.

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.

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

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do.

Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, andhaving fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.