Job Description

Are you motivated by enabling a global engineering organization to operate as one integrated system?

This is a unique opportunity to lead and evolve the Engineering Management System as a core capability within the Engineering Systems & Performance team, ensuring the Engineering Delivery System is governed, integrated, and applied effectively across Engineering & Workplace. In this role you will work through influence to align stakeholders, strengthen performance management, and enable a strong ONE TEAM approach in a complex global environment.

This is a Director specialist role with no direct people leadership responsibilities and will be based in Billund, Denmark.

Core Responsibilities 

• Lead and evolve the Engineering Management System as a core capability within the Engineering Systems & Performance team

• Define and govern the frameworks, standards, and leadership routines that enable consistent planning, execution, and performance management across Engineering & Workplace

• Ensure coherence and integration across processes, tools, and performance frameworks, enabling the Engineering Delivery System to function effectively as one system

• Enable clarity of ownership and accountability, ensuring alignment between strategy, execution, and performance

• Enable leaders, process owners, and subject matter experts across Engineering & Workplace to apply the Management System through structured governance, performance reviews, and decision-making mechanisms

• Drive transparency and alignment of performance insights, including requirements for data quality, reporting, and system-level visibility

• Collaborate with global and regional stakeholders to strengthen the ONE TEAM approach, ensuring consistent ways of working across functions and sites

• Partner with Continuous Improvement and LEAN transformation roles to embed continuous improvement into leadership behaviours and management routines

• Contribute to the evolution of the Engineering Delivery System, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and governance standards

Play Your Part in our Team Succeeding

As part of the Engineering Systems & Performance team, you will play a key role in driving the transformation of how Engineering & Workplace delivers as one integrated system. 
 
The team is responsible for ensuring that the Engineering Delivery System becomes a living, integrated way of working that enables clear ownership, strong collaboration, and sustained performance. 
 
In this role, you will shape one of the most critical enabling capabilities within Engineering & Workplace — the Management System that ensures alignment between strategy, execution, and performance. By strengthening governance, leadership routines, and system integration, you will enable leaders to manage priorities, risks, and delivery with greater clarity in a complex global environment. 

Do You Have What It Takes? 

• Strong understanding of engineering principles, management systems and familiarity with industry standards, compliance requirements & best practices

• Proven experience owning or governing enterprise-scale management systems, operating models, or governance frameworks in a global organisation

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and align diverse stakeholders without formal authority

• Strong experience at the intersection of strategy deployment, performance management, and operational execution

• Proven track record of defining decision frameworks, KPIs, and management routines that drive accountability and business outcomes

• High level of data literacy, including defining requirements for performance insights, data quality, and reporting

• Ability to operate effectively in a high-complexity, multi-stakeholder environment across global locations

• Strong understanding of continuous improvement as a leadership and management system

Please note: Relocation support is not available for this position. 

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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.

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