Global Category Manager, Professional Services

Bring your procurement, relationship-building, and negotiation skills to help support our ambitious agenda! Join our Professional Services team as a Global Category Manager, take the lead on subcategories including Talent Acquisition and Learning and Development, drive strategy across diverse indirect categories, and become the go-to expert for our most exciting ad-hoc projects.

Core Responsibilities

• Aiding business objectives, crafting category strategies, optimizing vendor contracts, nurturing supplier and internal ties, and spearheading innovation discovery.
• Partner with collaborators to develop and implement sourcing plans aligned with organizational goals, translating business objectives into actionable strategies.
• Lead complex negotiations to secure optimal terms and pricing. Manage the entire contract lifecycle, ensuring compliance and performance.
• Identify and capitalize on emerging trends, translating them into category strategies/plans and robust actions leading to efficiency improvements. Conduct continuous benchmarking through market insights to stay ahead of the competition and generate high-impact productivity.
• Establish and nurture solid relationships with primary suppliers. Roll out supplier relationship management strategies to promote cooperation, ingenuity, and ongoing progress.
• Proactively coordinate and lead risk management across the PS category. You will coordinate global risk assessment and tracking, ensuring our supply chain is bulletproof against geopolitical, financial, and reputational shifts.
• Be a great teammate and contribute to a culture of collaboration to support collective success.

Join the Professional Services team in London to support business solutions and drive value and innovation. Our division, Indirect Materials and Services Sourcing, works globally to improve sourcing, partner effectively with internal teams, and manage supplier relationships. We oversee procurement for Facility, Travel, Professional Services, Distribution, and IT categories worldwide.

Do you have what it takes?

We imagine that the ideal candidate has a good understanding of global procurement processes and the vendor landscape, with solid indirect procurement experience. You have excellent interpersonal skills and must be able to work effectively with global multicultural teams. Moreover, you have:

• Experience negotiating global enterprise agreements.
• Proficient knowledge of the Professional Services industry and impact of digitalisation, primarily centered on Talent Acquisition, Learning and Development, Temporary Staffing and Contingent Workforce.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to interact and influence with confidence at different levels inside and outside the organization.
• Experience leading and delivering multiple projects successfully.
• Capability and self-assurance to develop strong collaborator connections at all levels.
• Strong analytical skills in interpreting data to recommend actions.
• A self-starter with a positive can-do attitude to learning and a collaborative spirit.
• Flexibility for global travels.
• Proficiency in English, both verbally and written.

Kindly be advised that relocation assistance is not available for this position. 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.

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.

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. Join the LEGO(R) team today.