Senior Category Manager
22 hours ago
Senior Category Manager, Corporate Procurement
Are you a purpose-driven procurement expert, that knows how to shape complex business decisions? Do you excel at collaborating with business and suppliers from all ends of the world? Then you might be our new Senior Category Manager for Distribution, CAPEX and Facility Management.
Your new role – why is this a great opportunity?
In the role of Senior Category Manager, you will take global ownership of managing our strategies, suppliers, contracts across three varied, complex categories: Distribution, CAPEX and Facility Management. You will work closely with your category team of two associate category managers and a lead buyer, as well as colleagues across all 50 Lundbeck affiliates. You will also be responsible for:
- Developing and implementing new comprehensive category strategies that align with business goals, drive cost reductions, mitigate risks, and optimize supplier performance.
- Act as a trusted business partner to the organization, understanding their specific needs and goals.
- Lead strategic sourcing projects from need identification through contract execution.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key suppliers and establish, negotiate, and manage critical, long-term contracts and contract escalations.
Your future team
Corporate Procurement (CP) is a global matrix organization consisting of 3 Procurement hubs, located in Copenhagen, Krakow and Chicago. We have global and regional Category Managers located across our 3 hubs and an efficient structure ensuring optimal procurement advisory and support to our +50 affiliates globally. Corporate Procurement is set up as a global and fully centralized organization driving category management across our full value chain, from early research through commercialization of our products.
Corporate Procurement consists of 4 category clusters (R&D, Manufacturing & Supply, Corporate Services and Commercial Services). The Manufacturing & Supply cluster currently consists of 12 passionate individuals organized in 5 category team, including the Distribution, CAPEX and Facility Management team of 4, including our new senior category manager.
The senior category manager will report to the Director, Manufacturing & Supply and the position is located in Valby, Denmark.
What you bring to the team
Our ideal candidate has:
- A Master's degree in Business Administration or Science.
- Extensive experience in procurement, category management, contracting and sourcing suppliers.
- Experience in distribution category is beneficial.
- Experience with cost management and cost driver analysis.
- Proficiency in English both verbally and in writing.
Our promise to you
Lundbeck offers an inspiring workplace, passionate colleagues and a culture characterized as collaborative – a must to successfully bring our treatments through research and development all the way to commercialization and the people who need them. We offer a mix of exciting tasks and numerous development opportunities that are balanced with initiatives focused on your well-being.
Apply now
Can you see yourself in this role? We want to hear from you. Does this sound like your dream job, but you're not sure if you meet all the requirements? We still want to hear from you
Upload your CV and include a few lines about your motivation for applying. No separate cover letter is needed. We ask you not to include a photo or personal information that does not relate to your professional experience.
If you have questions or want to hear more, please feel free to contact Chris Lassen Jensen, Director, Corporate Procurement, +4530832526 .
We need every brain in the game – and that includes all brains and the different perspectives we bring to the table. At Lundbeck, we embrace the uniqueness of each employee, and we are committed to building a workforce that is as diverse as the people we serve.
About Lundbeck
Lundbeck is a biopharmaceutical company focused exclusively on neuroscience, with more than 70 years of experience in improving the lives of people with neurological and psychiatric diseases.
As a focused innovator, we strive for our research and development programs to tackle some of the most complex challenges. We develop transformative medicines targeting people for whom there are few, if any, treatment options.
Our goal is to create long-term value and make a positive contribution to people and societies, everywhere we operate. We are committed to fighting stigma and discrimination, and we act to improve health equity for the people we serve and the communities we are part of.
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