Development‑oriented Head of Office for Procurement, Tendering and Contract Management for the Building Agency

Do you want to lead a consolidated procurement, purchasing, contract management function and legal affairs in the state’s largest property company?

In 2027 the Building Agency, as an important initiative in our new strategy, will consolidate procurement, purchasing, contract management and legal affairs across the agency’s centres of expertise.

Responsibility for procurement, purchasing, contract management and general legal questions is an important common task across the agency, and to create the right organizational frame to solve this task, the function will be moved from the professional centre Center for Construction to the Staff, so it is placed together with other cross-cutting support functions.

About the position

We are looking for an Office Manager who can develop, establish and run a new consolidated procurement, purchasing and contract management function in the new organizational frame. At the same time, it will be an important task for the Office Manager to actively participate in and contribute to finding the right model for our procurement organization in the future.

You will receive both an operational responsibility and a clear development role, where you will help define the framework, processes and organization of the function. In the position you will:

• be involved in establishing and developing the Building Agency’s procurement organization
• consolidate and manage the agency’s approach to contract management and be responsible for the agency’s overall resource-allocated procurement plan
• ensure cohesive, governing and coordinated procurement, tender and contract processes at strategic and operational levels across the agency
• ensure that the function’s task execution as a whole supports the agency’s execution of business procurement effectively
• implement relevant strategies, paradigms and regulations across procurement, tendering, contract management,
• be involved in ensuring the system support for the procurement area, including the implementation of SDI (State Digital Procurement)
• ensure that the function supports the agency with general legal competencies, including handling access to documents and hearings as well as overseeing the GDPR area.

The Office consists of about 20 employees, and you will have line management for two senior consultants with line management (team leaders) as well as a couple of employees. The two team leaders and the 16 employees they supervise are distributed between our offices in Copenhagen and Skanderborg.

Your unit will, when you step through the door, organizationally be placed as part of the Staff, and you will report to the Deputy Director responsible for the Staff and the Center for Finance and IT.

You will join the center management in the Staff together with the press officer, the head of the executive secretariat and the HR manager. Together you handle the leadership task in the center, prioritize finance and ensure a balance between tasks and resources.

You will play a central role in the implementation of the development project on the right organization of the value chain for tender, procurement and contract management, and therefore you will also help influence the long-term organizational framework for the function.

About you

We are seeking an Office Manager with the right educational background and competencies with particular focus on the following:

• relevant education at master’s level with a social science, legal or business background
• experience with organizing and operating central tender, procurement and contract functions
• experience with procurement, tendering and contract management from a public institution
• experience with general legal processes and public administration law in public organizations
• knowledge of procurement law, contract law for works and construction, and contract law
• interest in development and ongoing optimization of organization, processes and governance as well as a generally development-oriented mindset
• understanding of the role of a cross-cutting support function with good collaboration and communication skills

It is crucial that you have concrete experience with building or organizing procurement organizations in the public sector or in larger private organizations, and that you are used to defining, anchoring and implementing standards, processes and tools across different needs and areas of expertise.

Leadership and cooperation

As Office Manager you will be part of the Building Agency’s management group and are expected to take responsibility for cross-cutting tasks and workflows, so the agency can deliver as one cohesive organization. We expect that you:

• prioritize cross-cutting collaboration with your management colleagues and
• ensure coordination and knowledge sharing across the organization
• actively work on well-being, psychological safety and competence development
• create results through your personal leadership, where you involve relevant stakeholders, ensure high professionalism and clear frameworks
• can motivate team leaders and employees to perform their best and contribute to a trusting and open collaboration in the center management.

As the head of a centrally anchored support function we expect you to communicate clearly about the direction of the function to the organization. We also attach importance to your ability to establish good collaborative relationships across the agency and to address and work solution-oriented with challenges.

Employment terms

The position is placed in salary group 1. Salary and employment terms are negotiated according to the framework agreement on the appointment of managers in the state. We anticipate a salary level of about DKK 1.1–1.3 million including pension per year, but the final salary package will depend on your background, your qualifications and the specific terms of the fixed-term contract.

The Building Agency is an agency under the Ministry of Housing, Energy and Transport, and your employment area will therefore be the ministry with its associated agencies. Your workplace will be Carsten Niebuhrs Gade 43, 1577 Copenhagen V.

At the Building Agency we work activity-based. We have chosen the activity-based layout and a positive approach to partial remote work, because we want to strengthen our collaboration and knowledge sharing, create better opportunities for concentration, and support a good working environment with high well-being and flexibility in everyday life. You can read more about it HERE .

Application and contact

If you want to know more about the position, you can contact Director Anders Mærkedahl Pedersen at tel.: 49 40 70 94

Submit your application, CV and exam papers no later than October 19, 2026. You apply for the position by going to www.bygst.dk/job/ or by clicking on apply for the job .

We expect to hold the first round of interviews on October 28, 2026. Candidates for the second round must, before the second interview, be prepared to undergo testing with personality and logic analysis in week 46. After completing the test process, we expect to hold the second round of interviews on November 23 and 24, 2026, and the position is desired to be filled by February 1, 2027

If you want to read more about our employment process, you can click HERE .