Tender Insights & Business Development Manager

Job Description

Do you have strong analytical skills combined with an equally high commercial acumen? Then apply for this exciting role and come join us!

A role tasked with identifying relevant insights on government related strategies and effectively tracking pipeline of public education system tenders in major markets. Focus is on the European Union, but also large-scale opportunities in Emerging Markets. Objective is to ensure that we are providing our reseller base with best-in-class insights, toolkits, and assets to respond to leading opportunities. This includes follow through with tracking progress and learnings from live implementations.

Also, this role is tasked to act as a strategic business development resource focused on further analyzing footprint gaps/opportunities and follow through on actioning it in collaboration with key sales lead stakeholders around the world.

Core Responsibilities

• Conduct detailed research on education industry trends in leading markets
• Track, analyze, and report on leading tender opportunities in the EU and European market federal funded programs (heatmaps/budget reviews/tender lifecycle monitoring)
• Ensure resellers are best prepared to submit tenders through sharing of best-practice data and assets
• Maintain data systems to monitor live implementation and bring learnings back in house.
• 2-3 business development projects per year focused on developing the LEGO Education value proposition and footprint in specific International markets

Play your part in our team succeeding

You will join the LEGO Education International Trade & Market Development Team in either Billund or London. A highly professional unit with a broad variety of tasks serving as the foundation for our business platform, the commercial strategy and execution across our organization.

Do you have what it takes?

To be successful in this position you are solution oriented and thrive in a collaborative, fun and dynamic environment, where change is part of every day life. You are able to travel 20-30 days a year.

Moreover, we believe you have:

• Education in a business-related field
• Proven experience working in an international commercial context where analytical skills and understanding of data is a must to succeed and further develop a business.
• A natural flair for shifting between intense focused and ongoing desk research to proactive stakeholder collaboration
• Strong attention to detail and respond to trends/data points
• Strong English communication and presentation skills
• Ability to take initiative, recognize and act on opportunities.
• Curiosity, a passion for learning, improving, and collaborating.
• Can accept some travel plans both global and regionally.

Please note that relocation support is not offered for this role

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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.