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Senior Sourcing Specialist - 12-month cover

• Location London, United Kingdom

• Job ID 0000016956

• Category Supply Chain

Job Description

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Would you like the opportunity to work within the Global Sales & Marketing Services, Media & PR category team?

Then bring your procurement, relationship building, and negotiation skills to help support our ambitious agenda!

Core Responsibilities

In this 12 month cover your primary focus will be supporting the sourcing and procurement of agency services across Media and PR, including media publishers, public relations and influencer, affiliate marketing, AdTech services and platforms. Secondarily the role may also support across other marketing services categories on an as needed basis. Moreover, you will:

• Support and implement the Global Category Strategy

• Secure strong Global/Regional partner management

• Provide regular updates on global and regional market intelligence insights

• Build and maintain regional supplier base including contract negotiation, relationship building, risk management and supplier performance

Play your part in our team succeeding

You will join the Marketing Services Media and PR category team out of London office. We are a distributed team spread across London, Billund, Enfield, and Shanghai and the glue that helps media and corporate communications management in all regions to keep agency and supplier partners delivering as promised.

We work closely with our media and PR colleagues and act as a sounding board on all types of projects. The Marketing Services category covers all commercial activity involving media, public relations, creative advertising services, creative production services, marketing events, market research, consumer insights.

Our aim is to help manage our media partners and to resolve any challenges to LEGO® marketing partners in terms of compliance, on boarding new suppliers, manage risk and drive value for the LEGO Group!

Do you have what it takes?

• 3+ years experience in Procurement or in similar positions

• Great communication skills and proficiency in English written and spoken.

• Experience using Microsoft Office suite of tools (excel, ppt, Teams etc)

• Previous experience working with SAP/COUPA

• Experience within marketing services category – especially Media Services, or Public Relations, or Creative Services, and AdTech services.

• Takes initiative, recognises and acts on opportunities

• Thrives and contributes best in a team setting

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to 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.

• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.

• 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.

• Your 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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

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.