Gobal Category Manager, Batteries
the LEGO Group
Date: 10 hours ago
Area: Singapore, Singapore
Contract type: Full time
Job Description
Core Responsibilities
CATEGORY MANAGEMENT
Over the last years The LEGO Group has been enhancing its play experience with the technology elements, where sensing and interfacing components are critical to creating great Play experiences.
The mission of Procurement is to ensure access for LEGO group to key component global supply base, operation excellence and compliance of LEGO requirements for procurement by supply market intelligence, sourcing strategy and benchmarking for related categories.
The LEGO Group not only offers you the opportunity to be a part of a company with a very special mission, but you will be at the forefront of defining the future positioning of the the LEGO Group brand in the digital era of the Company versus its customer base i.e. the children. It also presents you with exciting challenges working in a highly collaborative environment alongside talented colleagues which you will have the benefit of learning from.
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.
Just imagine building your dream career.
Then make it real.
Join the LEGO team today.
Core Responsibilities
CATEGORY MANAGEMENT
- This role will cover the broader portfolio of batteries
- Bring Procurement Category Management into your Strategic Sourcing Team (SST)
- Apply segmentation tools over the supply base and define negotiation strategies documented and maintained in your negotiation handbook hereby using objective market indices.
- Develop and apply “should costing” methodologies via the above handbook
- Drive the Purchasing Pricing Variance and Partner for Productivity monthly reporting for your key component clusters (including budgeting)
- Bring the Sustainability Ambition into the key component sourcing domain hereby driving the Live Cycle Assessment concepts contributing to our target realization.
- Own and manage resilience streams hereby managing the dependency of the overall the LEGO Group revenue from the key component suppliers by deep insight of the critical supplier nodes upstream in its value chain
- Apply the relevant digital tools in the above e.g. Coupa application as procurement tool etc.
- Lead together with Development colleagues the Strategic Sourcing Team (tandem procurement – technology staff) for identified category package of key components.
- Define and own the supplier selection strategy, the related key component supplier technology roadmap for your defined Category of key components and get final validation from the LEGO Group SST SteerCo team. Secure access to the supplier technology roadmaps and steer influence in these roadmaps hereby securing our technical interests.
- Secure access to the full eco system of the key component suppliers to have the design-in activity becoming a success.
- Lead global contract negotiation covering all aspects (technical design, capacity, commercial, legal, IP, quality, supply, compliance, sustainability) with the selected suppliers and own the contract update status.
- Offer the contracts for deployments (and use) in the novelty projects to the project procurement leaders and assist them to initiate the project specific Statement of Works (SoW) into the above contract. Be responsible to maintain the integrity of the contract when SoW s are introduced. Provide the Component NRE and CAPEX/OPEX for novelty projects to the Project Procurement Leader for him/her to complete this SoW
- Understand the complications of IP ownership and contracting, T&C s in these contracts
- Represent procurement in multi functional meetings with the key component suppliers.
- Drive stakeholder management which is, due to its criticality in the LEGO Group Digital System Play, on high level with supplier management
- Ensure strong collaboration with the innovation teams and product technology teams which are globally dispersed
- Own the Supplier Relationship Management by driving for your category the regular performance business review meetings and the annual Top Management Meeting (C level)
Over the last years The LEGO Group has been enhancing its play experience with the technology elements, where sensing and interfacing components are critical to creating great Play experiences.
The mission of Procurement is to ensure access for LEGO group to key component global supply base, operation excellence and compliance of LEGO requirements for procurement by supply market intelligence, sourcing strategy and benchmarking for related categories.
The LEGO Group not only offers you the opportunity to be a part of a company with a very special mission, but you will be at the forefront of defining the future positioning of the the LEGO Group brand in the digital era of the Company versus its customer base i.e. the children. It also presents you with exciting challenges working in a highly collaborative environment alongside talented colleagues which you will have the benefit of learning from.
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.
Just imagine building your dream career.
Then make it real.
Join the LEGO team today.
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