Job Description

Here is your chance to make a difference! We are recruiting a Global Procurement Director for the Professional Service to develop and execute category strategies that drive value, sustainability, innovation, and resilience across The LEGO Group’s professional services spend portfolio

Core Responsibilities

Lead and Develop a Global Team

Manage and inspire a team of professional services sourcing experts located across multiple regions, building world-class capabilities in strategic procurement and stakeholder engagement.

Strategic Sourcing & Category Management

Define and implement long-term sourcing strategies for key professional services categories, aligning with business needs, market insights, and emerging trends.

Cross-functional Partnership

Work closely with senior leaders in HR, Finance, Legal, and Operations to co-develop a holistic Professional Services roadmap that supports business transformation, efficiency, and agility.

Spend Optimization & Aggregation

Consolidate global spend across multiple regions and business units to leverage economies of scale, enhance negotiation power, and deliver total cost of ownership savings.

Supplier Management & Innovation Develop and manage a robust global supplier base. Lead negotiations, ensure optimal contract structures, drive supplier performance, and leverage supplier capabilities to co-develop innovations and productivity improvements

Risk Management & Resilience

Mitigate supply base risks and strengthen business continuity by building resilient supplier ecosystems and proactively identifying potential disruptions.

Sustainability & ESG Leadership

Drive sustainability objectives through supplier partnerships and procurement practices, supporting The LEGO Group’s environmental and social responsibility goals.

Performance Management

Establish and monitor global KPIs to ensure excellence in execution, continuous improvement, and delivery of procurement value across all regions.

Global Execution Excellence

Ensure consistent, high-quality execution of sourcing events worldwide, balancing speed, compliance, and stakeholder satisfaction

Play your part in our team succeeding

In this role, you will lead a global team of sourcing experts to develop and execute category strategies that drive value, sustainability, innovation, and resilience across The LEGO Group’s professional services spend portfolio.

You will collaborate closely with senior leaders from Operations, HR, Finance, Legal, and other functions to shape a forward-looking roadmap that enables long-term business success. This is a high-impact role for a visionary procurement leader with a proven track record in strategic sourcing, contract management, and supplier relationship development on a global scale. This position has 8 direct reports.

Do you have what it takes?

Master ́s Degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, HR, Finance or other related field Min 10 years Global People Management & Leadership Experience
Min 10 experience in Procurement in an multi-nationalcompany
Proven record of building and executing strong business cases for sourcing transformation and business value add
10 years of Professional Services Sourcing Experience
Transformation experience
High tolerance to work across multiple functions and matrixed
Advanced English skills in verbal and written.

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.

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.

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.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect