Are you our new procurement partner who can help develop the procurement area in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality?

Do you see potential in working more professionally with procurement? Can you like translating data and analyses into concrete results? Do you thrive being a key person in developing new initiatives? Are you eager to be involved in developing the procurement area in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality?

So we have a job for you, where you

• is project manager for a number of new initiatives, where procurement in the organization should be optimized and professionalized
• uses procurement data and analyses to identify potentials and create concrete changes and opportunities in the organization
• has a close partnership with our colleagues across the organization
• puts procurement on the agenda with the organization's leaders and employees together with your colleagues

Welcome to Public Procurement in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality

In Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality we work ambitiously with procurement, purchasing and contract management. We are today 10 specialized employees in the Department for Procurement and Purchasing, handling tasks within procurement, contract management, e-procurement and advisory.

In the coming years we will particularly focus on professionalizing procurement across the organization – therefore we are expanding the department with 3 new colleagues, including this position as procurement partner.

As part of the municipality's work to create financial elbow room, there is a politically decided ambitious effort to professionalize procurement across the organization. The effort shall contribute to fewer and more appropriate purchases, better use of agreements and more efficient workflows.

You will become a central part of the work to translate ambitions into concrete improvements and financial results in close cooperation with the municipality's subject areas and managers.

In Procurement and Purchasing we are a staff function, and we place great emphasis on being good partners with our colleagues in the organization. This implies that we focus on the organization's needs and are curious about their professional expertise while challenging and inspiring them in connection with their procurement and task performance. It also means we are happy to move away from the town hall and visit the different locations in the municipality.

Our work is data-based, and we conduct both larger and smaller analyses, so we continuously can keep focus on ensuring the municipality's funds are used as efficiently as possible and so we continually focus on finding the next potentials where the municipalities' resources can be optimized and made more efficient.

We collaborate with many different professionals in the organization, e.g. nurses, pedagogues, administrative staff, managers and directors. We collaborate with SKI (State and Municipal Procurement Service) and with our purchasing community ICØ (Purchasing Circle East).

You will become part of a professionally ambitious environment, where we highly value quality, collaboration, sparring and humor, and where we prioritize competence development. We think it should be exciting and fun to go to work. We take good care of each other – even when it is busy.

Your tasks

As procurement partner you will play a central role in professionalizing procurement across Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality. An important task will be to support procurement to be more integrated into the management task in line with e.g. personnel leadership.

You must in close collaboration with managers and staff carry out development and change projects that strengthen procurement behavior, create financial elbow room and contribute to a more efficient use of the municipality's resources.

Some of the projects to be initiated in 2027 are reducing the organization's procurement and a change in the organization's purchasing behavior. We want to achieve higher contract utilization, increase purchases via e-procurement, reduce the time spent on procurement processes.

We want to provide the right procurement agreements so we can reduce the number of purchases in physical stores, so the municipality's employee resources are used on the core task. We want to make it easy for the organization to use procurement agreements and we must focus on ensuring our colleagues have the right knowledge and the right tools at hand when they need to buy.

As procurement partner you are a proactive advisor and sparring partner for managers and staff across the organization. You help the departments identify opportunities to reduce and optimize procurement, use existing agreements and develop a more appropriate procurement practice.

You must be able to challenge existing habits, create engagement and help translate analyses and recommendations into concrete actions and results.

You will among other things

• be project leader focusing on progress and quality in cross-cutting strategic procurement initiatives and change projects
• work with change management in close collaboration with the leaders of the respective departments
• prepare material that can be used for training and competence development
• analyze data and find potentials for new initiatives and new areas, e.g. that can be put out to tender
• translate data into management tools and set goals for various KPIs
• systematically follow up on the departments' procurement, contract utilization and purchasing behavior and contribute to management information that supports concrete improvements
• advise departments and managers on larger single purchases, including needs assessment, choice of procurement method and opportunities to use the municipality's existing procurement agreements
• translate, produce and visualize data in PowerBI and communicate concrete recommendations both in writing and verbally to different management levels, e.g. institutions, corporate management and the executive board

Your profile

You probably have a relevant advanced degree in economics, procurement, supply chain management, social science or similar.

You may have experience with contract management, supplier management, financial management, tendering or procurement, e.g. as contract manager, tender consultant, procurement consultant or financial consultant. You may also have experience from other departments in a municipality where you have been involved in procurement processes. The most important is that you are curious and want to work with all aspects of public procurement.

It would be an advantage if you

• have a good understanding of how a politically governed organization works, and can navigate the intersection between professionalism, economy and operations
• are approachable and can adapt your communication to different target groups so the message is clear and precise, both in writing and verbally
• are collaborative and can build good relationships across the organization
• are good at creating ownership among leaders and staff and can motivate others to change habits and workflows
• are curious about other departments' tasks and challenges and can translate their needs into concrete procurement solutions
• have good understanding of processes and a flair for project management and meeting facilitation
• have understanding of data and are used to working structurally in Excel/Python/R or similar
• can combine strategic overview with a practical and solution-oriented approach and have the impact to challenge existing workflows and create concrete changes

In your application we would like to hear why you want to work with developing the municipality's procurement, and what concrete experiences you can bring into play – preferably with your own examples.

Employment

You will be employed in the Center for Economics and Procurement, which is a central staff unit with three departments: Procurement and Purchasing, Financial Management and Data Analysis as well as Finance and Accounting. We work closely with the management and the rest of the organization – and we have a strong professional community across the three departments.

We are located at Lyngby Town Hall – centrally located at Hovedgaden with short distance to Lyngby Station.

You will have the opportunity for flexible working conditions with the possibility of e.g. home office.

Salary is determined by qualifications and applicable collective agreement.

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Procurement Manager Mette Vinther at phone 21279350 or Contract Manager Mette Nisted at phone 21123121.

Application deadline is Monday 9 November at 9:00.

We expect to hold first interviews with relevant candidates on 13 and 16 November and second interviews on 23 and 24 November.

More than a workplace: With us you become part of a community with high professional standards. We prioritize quality in task solving and work together to achieve the best results for the citizens of Lyngby-Taarbæk. A strong collegial spirit is invaluable. We help each other, we laugh together and we are interested in who we are. We value diversity, and the strengths we each contribute through our background, personality and abilities.

With us you will meet trustworthy leadership, well-being, good opportunities for professional and personal development as well as room for creativity and new thinking. At the same time we maintain a good balance between work life and leisure.