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Are you commercially minded, strategic, and confident in building strong partnerships across a global organization?\nJoin 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.\nThe role is based in Billund, Denmark, or London, UK.\nCore Responsibilities\nOwn and deliver global procurement category plans for Payroll, Legal, and Risk & Insurance, aligning priorities with business needs and measurable value, service, and resilience outcomes.\nBuild trusted stakeholder partnerships, engaging early to shape demand, challenge requirements, and translate business priorities into a coordinated procurement pipeline.\nDevelop a global payroll vendor strategy with functional stakeholders, strengthening supplier management, digital capabilities, and business continuity.\nPartner with Legal and BSO to evolve third-party legal partnerships, embedding supplier performance management and improving commercial arrangements.\nLead complex global sourcing, contracting, and negotiations, improving pricing models and delivering savings, productivity, and service value beyond rate reductions.\nDrive supplier segmentation, performance reviews, and compliance monitoring, working with functional experts to manage supplier risks, escalations, and business continuity.\nUse 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.\nTrack spend, value delivery, and category performance, providing clear stakeholder updates and coordinating delivery across regional, site, and sourcing teams.\nPlay Your Part in Our Team Succeeding\nIndirect 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.\nAs 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.\nDo You Have What It Takes?\nMust-Have Qualifications\n7+ years of procurement experience, including strategic sourcing and category management within Professional Services.\nAbility to translate business priorities into global category plans, balancing commercial value, service quality, compliance, and business continuity.\nStrong commercial judgement and experience negotiating global service agreements, challenging pricing models, and delivering measurable value.\nStrong communication skills, with the ability to translate complex commercial topics into clear recommendations for stakeholders and decision-makers.\nAbility to build trusted senior stakeholder relationships, engage early in business planning, and constructively challenge demand and buying practices.\nStrong analytical skills, using spend, market, and supplier performance insights to identify opportunities, inform decisions, and track outcomes.\nExperience managing multiple sourcing and supplier initiatives, including segmentation, performance reviews, supplier risk, and resilience.\nDigital fluency and an understanding of AI, automation, and service platforms within Professional Services.\nAdvanced English skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nA degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance, or a related field.\nExperience in Payroll, Legal, or Risk & Insurance procurement.\nPrevious experience working with Danish companies.\nFlexibility to travel globally.\nPersonal Competencies\nCommercially minded and analytical.\nConfident in building relationships with senior stakeholders.\nCollaborative and relationship-focused.\nComfortable challenging requirements and established ways of working.\nCurious and proactive, with a continuous improvement mindset.\nComfortable taking ownership and navigating ambiguity.\nWhat's In It For You?\nBy 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.\nYou 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.\nApplications 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.\nWhat’s in it for you?\nHere is what you can expect:\nFamily Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.\nInsurances - All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.\nWellbeing - 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.\nColleague Discount - We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.\nBonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.\nYour workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.\nHybrid 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.\nLearn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here \nChildren are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. 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