Senior Category Manager, Sensors and Interfaces

Job Description

Come join us in improving the LEGO® Group's product technology approach. We're looking for someone to coordinate the strategic sourcing of integrated circuits and lead the commercial aspects of our future sensor and interface components! You'll partner with our Creative Play Labs to build the future of the LEGO brand in the digital era of our company.

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 our Strategic Sourcing Team (SST).

• Apply segmentation tools over the supply base while activating your strong negotiation strategies and “should costing” methodologies using objective market indices.

• 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, driving the Live Cycle Assessment concepts driving our target realization.

• Own and lead resilience streams, managing the dependency of the LEGO Group's revenue from 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 the SST (tandem procurement – technology staff) together with Development colleagues for identified category package of key components.

• Define and lead the supplier selection strategy, the related supplier technology roadmap for your defined category of components and get final validation from the SST SteerCo team.

• Secure access to and steer influence of the full ecosystem of supplier technology roadmaps, securing our technical interests and driving the design-in activity to success.

• Lead global contract negotiation covering all aspects (technical design, capacity, commercial, legal, IP, quality, supply, compliance, sustainability) with the selected suppliers and own the contract update status.

• Offer the contracts for deployments (and use) in novelty projects to the project procurement leaders and assist them in initiating the project specific Statement of Works (SoW) into the contracts while maintaining contract integrity. Provide the Component NRE and CAPEX/OPEX for leadership to integrate into SoW.

• Understand the complications of IP ownership and contracting, T&Cs in these contracts.

Relationship/ stakeholder management

• Drive partner management on high level with supplier management, which is critical to our Digital System Play.

• Ensure strong collaboration with the innovation teams and product technology teams which are globally dispersed.

• Own Supplier Relationship Management by driving regular performance business review meetings and the annual Top Management Meeting (C level).

Play your part in our team succeeding

Parts External Manufacturing’s (P&EM) mission is to design/engineer, source, plan and deliver new parts to the LEGO Group in consistently high quality through global 3rd party design & manufacturing network partners. The mission of Procurement is to ensure our access to key component global supply base, operation excellence and compliance of LEGO requirements for procurement by suppling market intelligence, sourcing strategy and benchmarking for related categories.

This opportunity will place you at the forefront of defining the future positioning of the LEGO Group's 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, and learning from experienced colleagues.

Do you have what it takes?

• 7+ relevant working experience in capacity of Procurement engineering or Product manager in the category industry

• Good insight and experience with the full SoC value chain, and familiarity with ASIC industrialization

• Knowledge of the Semiconductor suppliers eco system, considering tool chain offerings, open source approach and others to have a comprehensive understanding of the supplier capabilities

• Negotiation skills in areas beyond costing e.g. patent & royalty negotiations, joint development agreements, roadmapping negotiations, and other agreements…

• Understanding system houses and contracting specifics of system houses (IP and governance related)

• Having good understanding of capacity development in supply base

• Outstanding interpersonal and negotiation skills, capable of fostering and nurturing relationships with collaborators and partners at a global and senior level

• Experience with RF-tags and audio highly preferred

• Willingness and ability to travel

New Location Update

This position will initially be based at our LEGO office at either Boylston St or St. James, Back Bay, Boston before moving to a new central Boston office location by the end of 2026. Our hiring teams will discuss this with you during the interview stages.

Hybrid working model

Our workplace enables our LEGO colleagues to be and do their best at work. Introducing a flexible way of working is a great example of how we live up to our ambition. This 3 day in the office hybrid model will exemplify our People Promise by embracing the different life situations of our colleagues.

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $124,700 - $187,000 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalization of the employment offer.

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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 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.

Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs 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.

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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”
                                                                                                                                             
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.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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