Category Manager, Travel & Fleet

Category Manager, Travel & Fleet 

Are you passionate about making a real value-adding impact on globalisation and sustainability in a pharmaceutical company with a fantastic purpose? Are you motivated by delivering a wide array of travel and fleet related procurement projects in close collaboration with colleagues across the globe? Do you have the right mix of project management skills, travel- and fleet experience and a great interest in procurement? And do you enjoy working in a busy environment, where no two days are the same, and where you are always supported by experienced and friendly colleagues, as well as state of the art processes and systems? If so, this is a great chance to join us as our next Category Manager (CM), Travel & Fleet.

Why is this a great opportunity?

Lundbeck offers the right candidate an exciting job opportunity within our Corporate Services Category Cluster team. As a CM, you work independently on a range of strategic sourcing and contracting activities across our travel and fleet setup, with a lot of focus on globalisation and on supporting Lundbeck’s journey to reach net-zero emission by 2050, well supported by the category team members and other colleagues.

Some of the primary activities our CMs embark on are category project portfolio planning including alignment with our business, defining category and sourcing strategy, building and issuing RFXs, negotiating projects and contracts. Our CMs likewise manage our strategic vendors and lead improvement projects across the category scope.

Your new role

Our new Category Manager will join a team of 3 Category Managers, 2 Associate Category Managers and 2 Lead Buyers within the Corporate Services Category Cluster. We work individually as well as in teams where sparring and mutual support are key in the way we interact.

As a Category Manager, Travel & Fleet, you will:

• Take the responsibility – in close collaboration with the Category Team – for the global sourcing project pipeline and related spend within the category area
• Manage strategic sourcing projects and processes on a global scale, hereunder define Lundbeck requirements, run RFPs, and negotiation of complex travel or fleet setups in close alignment with Lundbeck’s line of business and senior management – all based on category management methodology
• Play an active and key role in the further development of global category strategy for Travel & Fleet
• Vendor and lifecycle management of the relevant contract portfolio and strategic vendor relations, ensuring continued commercial and legal governance and value generation
• Collaborate closely with internal key stakeholders across our many entities to secure strategy and project alignment globally
• Ensure project quality & timelines, compliance and overall Lundbeck long term interests across the contract portfolio

Your future team

Corporate Procurement is a global function consisting of +40 experienced and enthusiastic colleagues located in Copenhagen, Krakow and Chicago. Together we secure a professional and efficient source-to-pay process across the full Lundbeck value chain. We take outset in our strongly integrated Category Management processes and deliver value through our structured approach to planning, project execution as well as stakeholder- and supplier management. We ensure spend transparency, compliance and efficient line of business support through state-of-the-art procurement systems, well defined procedures and most importantly close cross functional collaboration. We believe in ongoing development of individuals and teams. With a great mix of experience, Lundbeck insights and diverse competencies across the team we develop each other just as we learn from external innovation and best-practices.

What you bring to the team

We are looking for the following qualifications in our future Category Manager:

• Advanced project management skills demonstrated through a minimum of 5 years’ experience in managing sourcing projects in a procurement or similar environment
• Good understanding of and experience with Travel & Fleet area is a key requirement for the position, and we are open to where your experience comes from. This could be either from procurement related roles or another type of role that has given you the basic understanding of the category area
• Business partnering skills, ability to influence and an emphatic mind-set
• An interest in building or further building your key skills  such as project management, negotiations, legal understanding, data analysis and Category Management
• A Master’s Degree from a University, Business School or equivalent, relevant to the position
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and a structured approach
• The ability to manage many projects and tasks simultaneously
• A keen interest for procurement and in continuously developing your skill set
• English fluency, verbally and written

Our promise to you  

Lundbeck offers an inspiring workplace with 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. 
At Lundbeck, we offer a mix of exciting tasks, passionate colleagues and numerous development opportunities that arise continuously as our company develops. We aim to balance interesting and rewarding work with initiatives and programs focused on our employees’ well-being.
We value your commitment to improving brain health for all, and we will therefore remain committed to your progress and development throughout your career at Lundbeck.

Apply now

Can you see yourself in this role? We want to hear from you.

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We need every brain in the game – and that includes all brains and the different perspectives we all 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. Read more about our commitment at www.lundbeck.com/global/about-us/our-commitment/diversity-and-inclusion. 
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About Lundbeck

Tirelessly dedicated to restoring brain health, so every person can be their best

With too many people living with brain diseases around the world, our purpose couldn't be more important or more worth striving for. Every day we work to change outcomes for these people. We are specialists fiercely dedicated to restoring brain health, drawing on, and embracing, the uniqueness of every employee.

Our global footprint

Our approximately 5,300 employees in more than 50 countries are engaged across the entire value chain throughout research, development, production, marketing, and sales. Our research programs tackle some of the most complex challenges in neuroscience, and our pipeline is focused on bringing forward transformative treatments for brain diseases for which there are few, if any therapeutic options. We have research facilities in Denmark and the United States, and our production facilities are located in Denmark, France and Italy. Lundbeck generated revenue of DKK 16.3 billion in 2021 (EUR 2.2 billion; USD 2.6 billion).  

For additional information, we encourage you to visit our corporate website www.lundbeck.com/global, and connect with us on Instagram @h_lundbeck, Twitter @Lundbeck and via LinkedIn.