Be part of the local procurement team of LEGO Manufacturing Vietnam and ensure that procurement get embedded into the new organization.

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. Working with Cost Engineering to gain further cost transparency.
  
• Risk Management: To Identify, manage, and communicate risks by leading action plans to avoid/mitigate potential impacts from own area and linked to internal customers points of connection, Business Continuity Plans in place for Direct suppliers.
  
• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): To lead Supplier Relationship Account by developing, evaluating and with a continuous improvement approach to the Vendors as responsible for Direct Materials ( Packaging & Raw materials )
  
• Market & key indicators tracking : To analyze industry, economic and financial key indicators along with legal conditions to track actual & projected trends that influence on price variance factors to estimate impacts and drive actions to mitigate them.
  
• Productivity & Continuous Improvement : To drive productivity and efficiency initiatives internally and with suppliers, providing saving to the business and workload reduction. Contribution to Partner for Productivity Programme.
  
• KPI performance : Drive local, global stakeholder management and team’s KPI Execution. Ability to influence the stakeholders and supply-base to drive the best outcome for LEGO.
  
• Stakeholder Management : Provide active leadership and influencing among stakeholder, finance and suppliers to drive companywide cost initiatives in the Direct ( BOM ) spends. Drive strong collaboration with local stakeholders, regional and or other site teams for any opportunities.
  
• Ambassadors of compliance : Responsible for local governance and compliance progress in RBP, FSC our sustainable agenda and environment agenda.
  

Play your part in our team succeeding.

This position exists to manage all the commercial aspects with LEGO Suppliers to ensure the supply of Direct materials to the factory on time and with the right level of quality agreed with our internal customers and stakeholders.

Do you have what it takes?

• Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Business Management with preferable focus on Supply chain, Legal or Finance
  
• 5+ years of experience within Procurement processes specially on direct categories.
  
• Experience in participating in Complex Projects impacting the organization within direct and productivity areas.
  
• Global and local collaboration environment experience
  

Hard skills:

• MS Office apps (Excel in intermediate level mainly)
  
• Procurement skills: Category management background, Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), Negotiation knowledge.
  
• Continuos 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 best outcome in 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:

• Team work: One team mindset
  
• Result Orientation : Motivated to deliver strong results, defines what a good result looks like and establishes measures to determine when a result has been reached.
  
• Innovation: Challenges through new insights and ideas, encourage others to look beyond to improve results and outcome. Identify new ways of doing things in connection with internal customers and process.
  
• Customer focused and consumer driven : Identify changes in internal customers and business partners to encourage and support needs, demand and driven operations to make connections in the Procurement processes to create value.
  
• Strategic Operation: Translates strategy and business plans into priorities for own area, frames the right holistic questions to “Connect the dots” and makes priority accordingly. Adapt and acts direction for the company, balancing strategic and operational needs.
  
• Agile learning & proactive mindset : self-learner, agile in own constructive actions from experience or feedback. Proactive approach to anticipate potential scenarios and actions for efficiencies or minimizing impacts.
  
• Digital skills: Detailed oriented, Self-motivated and eager to learn, Innovation and creativity through apps.
  

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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 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.
Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. 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.

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.

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