Development-oriented Head of Department 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 subject centers. Responsibility for procurement, purchasing, contract management and general legal questions is an important joint task across the agency, and to create the right organizational framework to solve this task, the function is moved from the subject center Center for Construction to the Staff, so that it is placed together with other cross-cutting support functions.

About the position

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

You will have 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:

• help establish and develop the Building Agency’s procurement organization
• consolidate and drive the agency’s approach to contract management and be responsible for the agency’s overall resource-allocated procurement plan
• ensure coherent, 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,
• contribute to ensuring system support for the procurement area, including via implementation of SDI (State Digital Procurement)
• ensure that the function supports the agency with general legal competencies, including handling of access to information and hearings as well as overseeing the GDPR area.

The office consists of about 20 employees, and you will have managerial responsibility for two chief consultants with line management (team leaders) and a couple of employees. The two team leaders and the 16 employees they manage 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 Vice Director responsible for 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 directorate secretariat and the HR manager. Together you will manage the leadership task in the center, prioritize finances and ensure balance between tasks and resources.

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

About you

We are looking for an executive officer 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 tendering, procurement and contract functions
• experience with procurement, tendering and contract management from a public institution
• experience with general legal processes and administrative law in public organizations
• knowledge of procurement law, contract law and construction 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 cross-cutting support function with good collaboration and communication skills

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

Leadership and collaboration

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

• prioritize cross-functional 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 boundaries
• can motivate team leaders and employees to perform their best and contribute to a trust-based and open collaboration in center management.

As head of a centrally anchored support function, we expect you to be able to communicate clearly about the direction of the function to the organization. We also place emphasis on your ability to establish good collaboration relations across the agency and to address and work solutions-orientedly with challenges.

Terms of employment

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

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

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

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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 diploma papers no later than October 19, 2026. You apply for the position by going to www.bygst.dk/job/

or 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, prior to the second interview, be prepared to undergo a testing process with personality and logic analysis in week 46. After the testing, we expect to hold a 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 recruitment process, you can click HERE

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Application deadline: Oct 19, 2026

Department: Carsten Niebuhrs Gade 43 1577 Copenhagen V

Location: Copenhagen