Global Category Manager for Facility Services

<p></p> <p>24/11/2025</p> <p>Group CFO</p> <p>DNK-Randers, Danish Crown Vej</p> <p> </p> <p><strong><span>Global Category Manager for Facility Services </span></strong></p><p><em>Are you ready to take the lead on contracts, supplier relationships, and strategic partnerships – and drive the cleaning services category across multiple countries?</em></p> <p><br/>At Danish Crown, you will: </p> <ul> <li>Play a key role in a professional and international procurement team</li> <li>Grow your skills within SRM, analytics and leadership</li> <li>Manage a key strategic category with senior management exposure </li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Join the team shaping strategic supplier relations</strong><br/>Danish Crown is an international food company with strong roots in Denmark, committed to creating better food and a brighter future. With a farm-to-fork approach, we focus on responsibility and quality throughout our entire value chain.</p> <p><br/>You will join our Group Procurement team – 30 colleagues in HQ Randers and 10 in Krakow – where professionalism, collaboration, and development go hand in hand. Together, we build strong supplier partnerships and drive continuous improvements across categories.</p> <p><br/><strong>Owner of a Key Strategic Category: Cleaning Services</strong><br/>Your category covers production cleaning services for facilities across multiple countries, ensuring high standards and compliance in a regulated environment. The category is business critical to Danish Crown, hence you will engage with stakeholders on all levels of the organization.</p> <p><br/>As Category Manager, you combine contract management, stakeholder collaboration, and long-term supplier engagement. You also communicate and drive changes on all levels of the organization, ensuring this strategically important category delivers maximum value.</p> <p><br/>More specifically, you will:</p> <ul> <li>Take ownership of the Cleaning Services category with an annual spend of +400m DKK across DK, UK, SE, DE, and PL</li> <li>Drive strategic procurement programmes from development to execution</li> <li>Support and challenge suppliers through performance frameworks</li> <li>Develop internal alignment with stakeholders at all organisational levels</li> <li>Ensure compliance and contract efficiency across the group</li> <li>Expect 10-20 travel days per year</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Strategic thinker with solid procurement or Facility Management experience</strong><br/>With your mindset and ability to build strong supplier relationships, you are ready to take ownership of a key category. You bring structure, drive and a collaborative approach to everything you do.</p> <p><br/>In addition, we imagine that you:</p> <ul> <li>Hold a commercial or facility-related degree</li> <li>Have some years of experience in strategic procurement or facility management</li> <li>Are skilled in negotiation, analytics, and contract management</li> <li>Have worked with service contracts and supplier collaboration across locations</li> <li>Communicate fluently in both Danish and English</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Appetite for more? </strong><br/>If you believe this position is for you, please do not hesitate to contact Michael Jespersen, Senior Director, Procurement, +45 5215 7991 to learn more about the position. </p> <p><br/>We review applications continuously, so let us know why you are the right fit – and do not forget to include your CV.</p> <p><br/>We look forward to hearing from you! </p>