Senior Manager, People Leader - LEGO DESiGN

Job Description

Are you passionate about people leadership? Do you have experience within capacity and resource management?

Now is your chance to play a key role in the LEGO® Global Design team - a diverse and world leading organization driving for innovation! We are currently looking for a People Leader to join our Model & Concept Leadership team.

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Core Responsibilities

In this role you will bring your phenomenal people leadership skills and your experience within capacity and resource management into play and be part of a world class Design force that reaches children around the globe with great building and play experiences. You will be:

• People leader of a large team (Designers with various capabilities allocated to different projects)
• Taking a leading role in optimizing data based capacity management by driving initiatives aimed at ensuring reliable capacity and demand data and supporting actionable feasibility assessments
• Taking a leading role in optimizing data based resource management by driving initiatives aimed at ensuring capability based resource allocation and optimization while respecting our people promise, good collaboration and portfolio priorities
• Acting as a leadership role model in the leadership playground, being brave, focused, and curious leading in a creative design environment.

Play your part in our team succeeding

LEGO Design is the home of more than 500 Designers of all trades and the nucleus of innovation for the LEGO Group. Our mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow. As children shape their own worlds with LEGO bricks, we play our part in having a positive impact on the world they live in today and will inherit in the future.

Do you have what it takes?

The ideal candidate holds a degree in a design-related field (Product/Graphic/Fashion/Toys), Fine Arts, Engineering or similar. Alternatively, a degree within business analytics, capacity and resource management or similar. You can come with a variety of educational backgrounds, but most important is your passion for leading and developing people combined with experience within capacity and resource management.

Moreover, we expect you to:

• Have a clear passion to navigate across multiple people related topics simultaneously
• Be self-reflective and willing to develop your own people leadership skills
• Demonstrate a collaborative approach and efficiency in management at all levels
• Seek and provide constructive feedback
• Show the ability to stay calm and focused in stressful situations
• Take initiative and ownership when driving solutions
• Hold proficiency level in English (spoken & written)

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.

• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.

• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.

• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.

• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

• Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer. 

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.