Director

Job Description

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Join us and contribute to the success of LEGO Model Production which brings even more kids and adults to love the LEGO brand!

Lead the Model Production Quality team who ensures quality, safety and compliance support to the solutions delivered by LEGO Model Production!

LEGO Model Production is a global team with presence across multiple locations globally and we are here to ensure our partner succeeds delivering their amazing products at the same as you will ensure they live up to the high compliance, quality and safety standards at the LEGO Group.

LEGO Model Production delivers brick-based solutions for both our LEGOLAND Parks and our LEGO Branded channels (owned stores – LEGO Brand Retail, or franchise stores LEGO Certified Stores) and third-party retailers (Walmart, Target etc.).

The LEGO Model Production offerings are a variety of glued brick-based models ranging from large out-of-scale models for LEGOLAND Parks down to in-scale glued models, used in model boxes and more recent, models for larger public events like driving replicas of real Formula 1 cars.

The Model Production Quality also provides quality and safety training to the community of LEGO Certified Professionals; a global community of model builders certified to build glued models under endorsement of the LEGO Group.

The position is based in Kladno and no relocation support will be available.

Core Responsibilities

• participation in two leadership teams, Quality in Markets & Channels (direct) and LEGO Model Production (associated). Your focus will be focusing on the team leadership part of the Model Production Quality.

• Ensuring the capability of the team is set to meet the future requirements coming from a competitive, agile and ever-changing business landscape going from a standardised product offering to a much more differentiated product offering using new technologies and new product platforms.

• With productivity and efficiency in mind, ensuring the capacity of the team always aligns with the needs of its major partners, in due time.

• Ensure seamless stakeholder management with its key collaborators, with full transparency, mutual understanding of needs and a balanced and justified decision making.

• Collaborate on alignments with LMP and other quality functions in TLG where relevant. Avoiding redundancy building competencies that may be available in a better form elsewhere.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Your will be leading a team both in Kladno and in Jiaxing using your excellent people leader skills both as close and with distant leadership. This is a pivotal position, placed in the force field between consumer products and experiences; and LEGO compliance and brand protection activities, where opposing needs sometimes collide and requires a delicate and justified approach.

Do you have what it takes?

• Quality management at a senior level of either with manufacturing area (process control, shop floor control, supplier quality management) or at a development area (quality assurance, compliance management)

• Proven team leadership

• Experience with distance management, with employees or manager placed in another location

• Experience working with global companies

• Strong language skills verbally and in writing in both Czech and English.

• Ability to travel when needed app. 5-15 days a year.

Join the global LEGO® team

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, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.

• Your workplace – Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.

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.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can 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.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

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.

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 highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

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.