Senior Manager – Global Procurement Data Foundation & Intelligence

Location: Carlsberg Headquarters, Copenhagen or Group Procurement UK Hub, Hemel Hempstead

Carlsberg Group is one of the world's leading brewing companies, with a strong portfolio of beer and beverage brands and operations across multiple markets.

Procurement is a strategic business function and trusted partner to the organisation, orchestrating value from a diverse global supplier ecosystem. Our purpose is to drive competitive total value from suppliers to enable profitable and sustainable business growth.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Manager – Global Procurement Data Foundation & Intelligence to lead the development of Global Procurement's data foundation, performance visibility and decision insights.

Reporting directly to the Head of Global Procurement Excellence, the role is accountable for establishing trusted procurement data, defining KPI architecture and reporting standards, owning the global procurement dashboard landscape, and ensuring insights are used to support fact-based decision-making across Procurement.

Working closely with Procurement, Finance, IIT teams, the successful candidate will build the foundations required to support Procurement's strategic digitalisation journey, enabling scalable analytics, automation and future-ready procurement capabilities. The role ensures data is trusted, insights are actionable, and performance visibility drives faster and better decisions across markets and categories.

What You’ll Be Doing

Build and strengthen procurement data foundations

• Define procurement data standards, reporting logic and data governance principles.
• Establish a trusted single source of truth for procurement performance reporting.
• Improve data quality, consistency and transparency across systems and processes.
• Partner with Digital, IT and Finance to address data gaps and structural issues.
• Ensure data readiness for digitalisation, automation and future AI initiatives.

Own procurement intelligence and reporting

• Own the global procurement dashboard landscape and reporting framework.
• Define KPI architecture, performance views and reporting standards.
• Ensure dashboards and reports are accurate, timely and relevant to business needs.
• Continuously improve usability, consistency and adoption of reporting outputs.
• Support leadership reviews with fact-based analysis and clear performance messages.

Generate actionable insights

• Translate data into practical insights for procurement leaders, categories and markets.
• Identify performance trends, risks, gaps and value opportunities.
• Increase visibility of procurement performance and value delivery.
• Connect analytics outputs to business decisions, not only reporting activity.

Lead analytics capability development

• Provide leadership and direction to procurement analysts through a dotted-line model.
• Set common ways of working for analytics, dashboard development and performance measurement.
• Build analytical capability and reporting discipline across the procurement organisation.
• Promote consistent use of data, KPIs and insights in business routines.

Enable digital and data evolution

• Support procurement digital programmes through robust data foundations.
• Contribute to reporting automation and process efficiency initiatives.
• Collaborate with Digital and AI teams to enable scalable analytical capabilities.
• Ensure new tools and solutions are supported by clear data definitions and ownership.

What We’re Looking For

Data Foundation & Intelligence

• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, data ownership and reporting standards.
• Ability to design scalable KPI frameworks, reporting structures and performance measurement approaches.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, with a structured approach to turning complex data into actionable insights.
• Understanding of enterprise data landscapes, including ERP, procurement, finance and reporting platforms.

Analytics & Business Intelligence

• Strong practical experience with Power BI, Tableau or comparable analytics and visualisation platforms.
• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable analytical and reporting solutions.
• Ability to communicate insights clearly and influence decisions through data.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Ability to build alignment across business, digital and technical teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills in matrix organisations.
• Ability to lead through expertise, establish standards and drive adoption without direct authority.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous environments while maintaining structure and consistency.

Growth Mindset

We are looking for someone who:

• Takes ownership of outcomes and is accountable for your delivery
• Brings structure and consistency to complex environments by establishing clear standards, governance and ways of working.
• Leads through expertise and collaboration, building alignment across Procurement, Finance and IIT
• Balances strategic thinking with hands-on execution, turning roadmaps into measurable progress.
• Communicates complex data topics in a clear and practical way for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Maintains high standards while remaining pragmatic and effective in ambiguous and evolving environments.

Experience

• Proven experience in analytics, business intelligence, data governance, performance management or related disciplines.
• Experience managing data across multiple enterprise systems, such as ERP, procurement, finance, analytics or reporting platforms.
• Experience establishing and governing KPI frameworks, data standards, dashboards and reporting solutions across multiple stakeholders and functions.
• Experience improving data quality, analytical capabilities and data-driven ways of working within complex organisational and technology environments.
• Experience leading analysts or analytics-focused transformation initiatives and influencing stakeholders in a matrix organisation.
• Procurement experience is an advantage, not a prerequisite.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Management Information Systems (MIS), Information Management, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Supply Chain or a related field.
• Advanced degree or relevant certifications in analytics, data governance, business intelligence, information management, data management, project management or procurement are an advantage.

Languages

• Fluent English, spoken and written.
• Other languages are an advantage.

What You Can Expect

• Ownership of Global Procurement's data foundation, intelligence capability and dashboard landscape.
• Opportunity to shape how procurement performance, value delivery and decision-making are enabled across the organisation.
• A key role in building the foundations for Procurement's digitalisation, automation and future-ready capabilities.
• Close collaboration with senior stakeholders across Procurement, Finance, Digital and IT, with strong visibility across the global organisation.
• A dynamic international environment with the opportunity to create sustainable and measurable impact.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.

Interested?

Please submit your application through the relevant recruitment link. Applications are reviewed continuously, and the role may be filled before the stated deadline.

Application deadline: 19 August 2026

Carlsberg Group: Brewing for a better today and tomorrow

For us success has always been in the diverse mix of our people, our beers and our brands. At Carlsberg, we want to recruit and develop people with a global mindset, cultural understanding, and international experience to ensure that our organization stays agile, inclusive and prepared for future growth. Only by acknowledging and harvesting from different perspectives and experiences, will we gain competitive advantage and leverage the effect of diversity for business growth. Carlsberg aims to create equal access to opportunity regardless of social identity, and we encourage everyone to apply regardless of gender, nationality, race, religion or any other characteristics protected by law.