Sourcing Specialist, HBW and Automated Logistics

Job Description

Are you an early-career engineer curious about procurement, automation and future logistics solutions?

Bring your engineering mindset, analytical skills and curiosity into play as you support sourcing activities for automated logistics solutions across our global manufacturing network.

Work location: Billund, Denmark. No relocation assistance is provided.

Core Responsibilities

As Sourcing Specialist, HBW and Automated Logistics, you will support procurement activities for a strategically important and fast-growing category covering High Bay Warehouse (HBW), material handling and automated logistics solutions. You will work closely with experienced procurement colleagues, engineering teams and suppliers to help deliver automation projects across our manufacturing network. To be more specific, you will:

• Support sourcing activities for HBW and automated logistics projects, including supplier research, request for quotation preparation, evaluation support and contract administration.
• Partner with engineering, manufacturing and procurement colleagues to understand technical requirements and translate them into clear supplier and sourcing inputs.
• Contribute to supplier market analysis across automated logistics technologies such as conveyors, AGVs, AS/RS, shuttle systems, robotics, controls, software and related services.
• Help prepare data, cost comparisons, supplier performance insights and decision materials to support category managers and project teams.
• Take part in supplier meetings, technical clarifications and negotiation preparation, building your commercial and procurement capabilities over time.
• Support purchase process compliance, documentation, risk follow-up and stakeholder communication across ongoing sourcing projects.
• Bring fresh engineering thinking, curiosity and structured problem-solving to help improve how we source and implement automated logistics solutions.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Based in Billund, Denmark, you will join the Indirect Materials & Services (IM&S) Procurement organization. IM&S spans multiple spend areas across the enterprise and is responsible for sourcing products and services that enable our global operations, including facilities, IT/Digital, professional services, travel, distribution, logistics and other indirect procurement categories.

The HBW and Automated Logistics category plays a central role in delivering capacity expansion, automation, resilience and productivity across our global manufacturing network. In this role, you will have the opportunity to learn sourcing and category management in a technical environment while contributing to real projects that support the next generation of LEGO factories.

Do you have what it takes?

To be successful in this position, we imagine that you are an engineer early in your career, with a strong interest in procurement, automation, supply chain or manufacturing technology. Moreover, you have:

• MUST: A degree in engineering, automation, mechanical engineering, industrial engineering, logistics, supply chain or a related technical field.
• MUST: 2–4 years of relevant experience (<= 4 years' experience), ideally from engineering , project management, manufacturing procurement, sourcing, automation-related work.
• A strong interest in automated logistics, warehouse automation, material handling systems, capital equipment or technical supplier collaboration.
• Good analytical skills , with the ability to work with data, compare supplier offers and prepare clear decision support materials.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn procurement fundamentals, including sourcing processes, supplier evaluation, negotiation preparation and contract follow-up.
• Ability to collaborate with technical and commercial stakeholders in a structured and proactive way.
• Good communication skills and proficiency in English , written and spoken.
• A growth mindset, high integrity and motivation to build procurement expertise in an international environment.

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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.

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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