Manager Specialist Procurement

at  LEGO

BRING VALUE TO YOURSELF AND THE ORGANIZATION BY PUTTING YOUR SUPERPOWERS TO WORK!

This position exists to support the site Demand Plan by increasing the flexibility and delivery responsiveness from our Suppliers.

HARD SKILLS:

• MS Office apps (Excel in intermediate level mainly)
• Procurement skills: Category management background, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Negotiation knowledge and Vendor performance management.
• Continuous Improvement Management : Tools and methodologies applied in day to day business activities (Process Mapping, PDCA, System Map, Strategy Deployment, solving problem tools, etc.)
• Decision Making: asses situation, search for alternatives and reach the best outcome in the best time with right application of tools to visualize analysis and selection of resolution (RAID tool)
• Stakeholder Management : knowing processes and tools to classified and map stakeholders for a better communication strategy and set good relationships.
• Risk Management : analytical risk assessment tools management in order to set contingency actions towards achieving tasks or avoid impacts.
• Prioritization and goal setting management

SOFT SKILLS:

• Result Orientation
• Innovation
• Customer focused and customer driven
• Strategic Operation
• Agile learning & proactive mindset
• Digital skills
• Effective communication and problem solving

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

Sourcing : To Understand the business needs and provides supply and sourcing strategies in compliance with product specifications and Category requirements.
Negotiation & Cost analysis: To drive quotes and cost analysis and breakdown for negotiation, price adjustments by cost drivers and to create a healthy competitiveness environment.
Risk Management: To Identify, asses, manage, and communicate risks by leading action plans to avoid/mitigate potential impacts from own area and linked to internal customers points of connection.
Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): To lead Supplier Relationship Account by developing, evaluating and with a continuous improvement approach to the Vendors as responsible. Manage high complex categories that have full ownership of responsibility and authority such as Printed Boxes, Building Instructions and external manufacturing for plastic packaging. Capacity analysis & Delivery responsiveness: To analyze capacity from Suppliers to make sure that the regional demand is covered On Time and In Full.
Productivity & Continuous Improvement : To drive productivity and efficiency initiatives internally and with suppliers, providing saving to the business and workload reduction.
Project Management as leader or participant.
Market & key indicators tracking: To obtain input from institutional sources and from Suppliers to analyze trends and variables that can potential affect the supply, material cost composition or the category strategy to adjust and ensuring supply continuity.
Comply with the Procurement Processes related to the Supply Chain Security Programs (CTPAT-OEA) and FSC through internal applicable processes and guidelines to comply with these Programs.
Digital skills (Power BI): Manage and develop visual and interactive insight for analyze from own area of responsibility.

Core Responsibilities• Typically responsible for developing and executing optimal multi local category strategy.

• End to end procurement processes include: Early engagement on business request analysis; Pricing/Terms Negotiation; Supplier Selection; Order Processing; Contracting; Supplier Relationship Management;
• Drive local stakeholder mgmt and KPI Execution
• SRM for existing supplier