Project Manager (Maternity Cover)

Job Description
Do you feel passionate about bringing sustainable materials and processes to life? Possess outstanding drive to make things happen?

This is a unique opportunity to get insight on how the LEGO Group works with sustainability in product development. Come bring your curious, focused and brave personality and join this team, working towards change.

Play your part in our team succeeding
The System and Material Governance team is based in the LEGO Design organization with close collaboration with the supply chain. The team is responsible for the overall LEGO building system (LEGO, DUPLO and Technic), where the task is to lead and develop on the compatibility and complexities of all LEGO bricks to enable the best consumer system-in-play experience.

You will play a key role in connecting the dots from initiatives running in the sustainable material program into the governance and development area, adapt and react on tendencies and initiate new improvements or projects. E.g by introducing new design methods, materials or capabilities.

Core Responsibilities
You will be working closely together with the sustainable materials program and the LEGO Design organization. You will set the direction and spot opportunities for sustainable transformation. Responsibilities include:

• Manage information across functional areas, documenting results and consolidating recommendations.
• Ensuring the LEGO building system and play experience are developed in relation to new sustainable solutions.
• Drive our team of creatives and be a curious part of setting motivation and focus within the Design teams.
• Drive partner management across the organization, leading changes when implementing new sustainable materials.
• Estimate resources usage for new sustainable projects or tasks in the development area – LEGO Design organization.
• Manage, develop and implement processes relating to the development and maintenance of the total LEGO bricks portfolio.

Do you have what it takes?
You hold a bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent experience. Moreover, you hold:

• 3-5 years experience as project manager related to development or materials projects.
• Excellent partner management interpersonal skills
• Structured, analytical, proactive and can-do attitude
• Strong teamwork skills
• Knowledge about the LEGO building System is an advantage

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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.

• Location
  Billund, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000020380
• Category
  Project / Program Management