Would you like to help strengthen procurement in the social sector in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality?

Would you like to contribute to strengthening the quality of Lyngby-Taarbæk's procurement of social-educational services? Do you want to strengthen procurement processes and supplier collaborations? And would you like to be a close partner with the social area?

We have a newly created position, where you

• will become a central and specialized collaborative partner in the development and professionalisation of procurement in the social sector
• can combine your social work insight with analysis, contract management and development with an economic perspective
• can use your sharp and analytical view on data to develop procurement in the social sector
• have flexible work planning with great opportunity to shape your role and your tasks
• will be part of a professionally strong department with high ceilings, good sparring and room for humor

Welcome to Procurement and Purchasing in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality

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

In the coming years we will particularly focus on professionalising procurement across the organisation – therefore we are expanding the department with 3 new colleagues, including this role as a consultant aimed at the specialised social area.

In the Department of Procurement and Purchasing we have begun to focus on contract management as a discipline – across contracts for the entire municipality. Contracts must not just sit in a drawer. They must be used – among other things to support good collaboration.

Procurement and Purchasing has a close partnership with the Center for Social Efforts, which is anchored under a steering group consisting of the coordinator for social-educational contract management, center directors and department heads from the Center for Social Efforts and the Center for Finance and Purchasing. You will work closely with our good colleagues in the Negotiation Team in the Center for Social Efforts, which consists of a coordinator and negotiation consultants.

Together we focus on professionalisation and optimisation of workflows, contract formation and supplier collaboration in the social sector.

The steering group ensures there is a common direction for the work with contract management and that the efforts are prioritised and implemented in both the children, youth and adult areas, and you will play a central role in translating strategy into action.

You must help ensure coherence between the professional needs in the social sector, the contracts with suppliers and the municipality's strategic ambitions.

Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality is part of the procurement network Procurement Circle East (ICØ), where we collaborate with 6 neighboring municipalities to realise potentials in the procurement area – here too the social area has high priority. Therefore relationships, dialogue and collaboration are an important part of daily life.

You will become part of a professionally ambitious environment where we value quality, collaboration, sparring and humor highly, and where we prioritise professional 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 a consultant for the social procurement area in Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality you will be responsible for a number of tasks, which among others can include:

• Negotiate, prepare and maintain collaboration agreements and contract terms
• Prepare and maintain supplier notices that support caseworkers' workflows with contract formation
• Identify cross-cutting negotiation opportunities via supplier analyses and price analyses
• Analyses of consumption under entered agreements across areas as well as visualization and communication of data in Power BI
• Collaboration with the social area on processes related to contract formation and follow-up on signed contracts and whether the municipality receives the ordered services at the agreed prices
• Implement and drive development initiatives for the existing work with contract management in the social sector

Your profile

We are looking for a profile who can bridge between social-educational practice, procurement, data, economics and supplier collaboration. We imagine that you either have a long higher education degree in economics, social sciences, procurement and have knowledge of the social area, or that you have a social-educational background such as social worker, cand.soc. or similar with understanding of analyses, economics and contracts.

You may also have experience from a public procurement or financial function where you have worked with the social area. You may also have experience from a municipality, a social offering or another organization where you have worked with contract management, supplier collaboration, quality assurance etc. The most important is that you are curious, eager to learn a lot and have the right mindset.

It would be an advantage if you

• work independently, structured and can create progress in tasks
• work analytically with attention to both details and context
• have experience working across disciplines, have good collaboration skills and communicate professionally with colleagues and suppliers
• have a good understanding of data and are used to working in a structured way in Excel/Python/R or similar
• can create an overview of complex workflows and translate them into simple and usable solutions
• are strategically minded, have impact and possess a healthy amount of business acumen
• are interested in contracts, economics, quality assurance and process development.
• have knowledge of and understanding of the Child Act and the Social Services Act, the tilbudsportalen and tariff calculation

In your application we would like to hear why you want to work on developing the municipality's social-educational procurement and which concrete experiences you can bring to bear – preferably with your own examples.

Employment

You will be employed in the Center for Economics and Purchasing, which is a central staff unit with three departments: Procurement and Purchasing, Financial Management and Data Analytics and 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 based at Lyngby Town Hall – centrally located by Hovedgaden with short distance to Lyngby Station and the light rail.

Salary is set according to qualifications and the applicable collective agreement.

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Purchasing Manager Mette Vinther at tel. 21279350, Procurement Consultant Maria Cecilie Hansen at tel. 61133481 or Coordinator for social-educational contract management Trine Piester at tel. 21376078

Application deadline is Thursday, 12 November 2026, at 9:00

We expect to hold first interviews with relevant candidates on 18 November and second interviews on 26 November.

More than just a workplace: With us you become part of a community with high professionalism. We prioritise quality in task solving and work together as a team to achieve the best results for the citizens of Lyngby-Taarbæk. A strong sense of collegiality is invaluable. We help each other, laugh together and 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 encounter trusted leadership, well-being, good opportunities for professional and personal development as well as room for creativity and innovation. At the same time we maintain a good balance between work life and leisure.