DirectorCostEngineering

**Job Description** ** _Director, Cost Engineering_** based in Singapore or Billund **Job Description** **An exceptional opportunity to join the Procurement team at The LEGO Group!** This is an exciting role within Global Procurement to drive best-in-class cost management at The LEGO Group. The Director of Cost Engineering leads the development and deployment of enterprise-wide should-costing, cost transparency, and value engineering capabilities to improve commercial outcomes, supplier negotiations, product affordability, and cross-functional decision making. The role combines deep technical cost understanding with strategic procurement leadership, enabling the organization to: * improve cost competitiveness, * strengthen supplier negotiations, * accelerate fact-based decision making, * and drive sustainable margin improvement across direct material and operational spend. The role will lead a team of Cost engineers across different categories in Procurement and work closely with teams in Finance and Categories to deliver on the agenda. **Core Responsibilities** Strategic Cost Leadership: * Define and execute the global Cost Engineering strategy aligned to business and procurement objectives * Establish a **long-term capability roadmap** covering tools, data, operating model, governance, and talent aligned to the business goals and with great awareness for how to bring others along the journey * **Exceptional leadership skills** to lead an agile cost engineering team building capabilities in cost engineering. Ensure deployment of agile resources based on value and risk to the LEGO Group * Embed **cost transparency and should-cost methodologies** into sourcing and category management processes * Support leadership with **fact-based cost intelligence and market insights** * **Establish market forecasting approach and link to category dashboards:** Build automated dashboards linked to cost driver model and define category critical metric * **Build category capabilities