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The LEGO Group is seeking a Category Manager for Packing Equipment for a 12-month fixed-term parental leave cover contract. This role is responsible for sourcing, supplier management, contract negotiation, and category execution within packing equipment, a critical area for global manufacturing and automation. The position requires 3+ years of procurement experience, preferably in technical categories like CAPEX or manufacturing equipment, with strong negotiation and stakeholder management skills. The role involves collaboration with engineering, manufacturing, and R&D departments, with exposure to senior leadership.
Job Description
Category Manager, Packing Equipment (12-month fixed-term parental leave cover contract)
Job Description
Are you motivated by procurement roles where your work directly impacts global manufacturing, automation and future factory growth?
We’re looking for a Category Manager for Packing Equipment to join the LEGO Group either base in Billund or in Kladno. This is a 12-month fixed-term parental leave cover contract.
No relocation assistance is offered for this position.
Play your part in our team succeeding
Within CAPEX & MRO Procurement, we are globally responsible for sourcing and defining the category direction across key investment and operational areas. We drive this through strong and systematic category management, supply market intelligence, supplier selection, global contracting and supplier relationship management.
In the Packing Equipment team, we support one of the key areas enabling The LEGO Group’s global manufacturing footprint. Packing Equipment plays a critical role in securing capacity, operational stability and the future automation agenda across our factories.
We are now looking for a Category Manager to cover a parental leave in the Packing Equipment team.
About the role
This is an exciting opportunity to step into a global category with high relevance for factory operations and future growth. You will support sourcing activities, supplier engagement, contract management and category execution across Packing Equipment.
The area is developing rapidly, with increasing demand for scalable supplier platforms, cost transparency, automation capabilities and strong commercial foundations. This means the role is not only about supporting today’s projects, but also about contributing to the supplier ecosystem needed for the future.
You will collaborate closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Manufacturing, R&D and Procurement, with exposure to senior stakeholders at Senior Director level and below.
Why this role is attractive
You will join a team working on a highly strategic and business-critical category, where procurement has a direct impact on investment decisions, supplier performance, total cost of ownership and long-term value creation.
This role offers the chance to gain strong exposure to global CAPEX projects, strategic suppliers and cross-functional collaboration while helping us sustain momentum in a category that is central to enabling balanced growth.
Core Responsibilities:
Do you have what it takes?
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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.
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