Category Manager, Sensors and Transducers

Job Description

Bring value to yourself and the organization by putting your superpowers to work!

Do you have what it takes to take on an exciting journey of positioning LEGO product technology approach, hereby increasing the strategic sourcing of Sensor and Interface components.

Play your team succeeding

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.

As part of this increased technology adoption, LEGO is developing direct relationships with strategic suppliers. This requires deep understanding of supplier roadmaps, features, functionalities, quality and cost optimizations.

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 role is as such responsible for developing assigned Sensing and Interfacing components/solutions, including establishing and executing procurement category strategy, contracts and support the overall supplier – LEGO relation development.

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 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

Core Responsibilities:

Category management

• This role will cover the broader portfolio of electronic components for sensing and interfacing, eg. color sensors, displays, speakers, microphones, haptic components, RF-inlays etc.
• 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.

STRATEGIC SOURCING TEAM (SST)

• 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, sustainabilty) 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.

Relationship/ stakeholder management

• 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 meeting