Procurement Director

Job Description
Join a Dynamic Team as the Procurement Director for Consumer, Marketing & Retail Technology
In the fast-paced world of Consumer, Marketing & Retail Technology, a unique opportunity awaits to lead a pivotal function that drives innovation and strategic alignment across digital clusters. This role is not just about procurement; it's about shaping the future of how technology integrates with marketing and retail strategies

Core Responsibilities

• Business partnering with the leading stakeholders in the Consumer, Marketing & Retail Technology digital clusters to align strategies and drive success.
• Building new stakeholder collaboration with the marketing business unit
• Influencing the developing Digital Technology roadmap and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to ensure alignment with organisational goals such as in-housing ad-tech from media agencies.
• Managing a team of 5 procurement resources dedicated to Consumer, Marketing & Retail Technology to achieve optimal commercial outcomes for Digital Priorities.
• Overseeing shadow IT triage to align with the priorities set by the ELT.
• Strengthening IT risk assessment and management practices to safeguard the organisation across emerging risk e.g. AI.
• Driving the development and commoditization of digital market intelligence and innovation scouting.
• Guiding the planning and execution of Domain category strategies.
• Providing effective leadership, supportive coaching and capability development to enhance the capabilities of the IT Procurement team.

Play your part in our team succeeding
Indirect Materials and Services Sourcing is a global organisation focused on driving excellence in sourcing, be strong business partners with the internal stakeholders and drive supplier relationship management. The organisation is responsible for Facility, Travel, Professional Services and IT categories procurement globally.

As LEGO group expands globally, the investment in IT is growing as well and the procurement team needs additional resources to manage the growing demand.

Do You Have What It Takes

• Strong understanding of the Consumer, Marketing & Retail Technology market
• Experience of managing teams and complex stakeholder groups
• Strong influencing and story telling skills, the ability to interact with confidence with individuals at different levels
• Global category management experience - deep insight and understanding of demand and cost driver optimisation
• Have the innate capability to proactively lead and resolve multiple complex problems
• Solid understanding and experience negotiating software, cloud contracts and related commercial/licence models

The position is based in London, UK and relocation support is not offered for this role.
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.

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