Head of Play Experiences Lifecycle Management (PELM) Implementation and Transformation

Job Description

Would you like to play a key role in helping us develop the builders of tomorrow? Do you thrive in an international, value driven environment where only the best is good enough?

Join one of the world’s leading brands and use your talent for complex strategic problem-solving in a challenging role with exposure to senior leadership!

Core Responsibilities

With your strategic and forward-thinking mentality and ability to navigate in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment, you will drive the LEGO Group’s Play Experiences Lifecycle Management (PELM) processes and capabilities transformation. This set of digital tools, process and capabilities enables the LEGO Group colleagues to imagine, develop and manufacture the existing and future LEGO Play Experiences - physical, hybrid, and digital – from idea to retirement. You will need the capabilities to:

Act as LEGO Group PELM Functional Business leader

• PELM vision: Develop a vision for the PELM Implementation and Transformation to successfully migrate the LEGO Group operations and overall business process activities to a new set of capabilities (including digital and others)

• Scope and risk management: Define PELM scope and manage delivery, including managing risks and dependencies

• Implementation plan: Develop a roadmap including change, business and technology milestones taking into account the needs of external and internal stakeholders and incorporating them into implementation plans

• Resourcing plan: Own the overall resourcing /staffing and budgeting to ensure the successful on time and on budget migration, in collaboration with other Senior leadership budget owners for PELM

• Daily planning and monitoring: Monitor daily planning and migration operations and address potential issues when they arise

• Process mapping & redesign management: Orchestrate the successful cross functional and aligned conclusion to design new processes that will improve quality or increase productivity and profitability with the new system
  

• Dependencies management with ERP transformation: In close collaboration with the ERP Transformation leads manage interdependencies between PELM and the ERP transformation programmes to ensure that both programmes can progress to plan

• Delivery of plan: Accountable for the delivery of the PELM transformation on time, in line with budget and performance indicators expectations, in collaboration with other PELM Senior Business leaders

Drive alignment in a diverse stakeholder organisation

• Run the PELM ELT & SLG SteerCo and provide steer to the Senior Leadership team on options and recommendations

• Establish and develop trust-based relationships with senior leaders

• Ensure alignment of senior leaders to successfully migrate to the new platform(s)/ capabilities

• Act as an escalation point when needed

• Programme communication to keep transparency on progress of the most important issues at hand

Lead a cross functional team (indirect leadership role):

• 20+ LEGO Group colleagues across functions including Digital, Finance, Operations and Product and Marketing Development who make up the programme including business and change management, product managers and process owners across the programme.

• Partner companies, supporting the business process, vision and change work, where relevant

We will assess collaboration competence, as this role will function as a cross-functional enabler, driving alignment and synergy across diverse teams and stakeholders.

Play your part in our team succeeding
The Head of PELM Implementation and Transformation is a Senior Director role, reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer of the LEGO Group. This newly formed leadership role will lead one of the top business priorities of the CFO Organisation & the LEGO Group more broadly.

Do you have what it takes?

• Previous experience as a Senior leader driving large transformational digitally enabled programmes in large corporates

• Proven solid Programme Management experience in implementing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) programmes

• Hands-on expertise and thorough understanding of the software environment and digital operating model(s) in particular in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Agile at scale product team delivery models

• Visionary mindset and ideation that sets the strategic course and moves the organization forward

• Significant experience in consulting / System integration in the areas of digital implementation and / or overall business transformation

• Problem solving: having a good strategy understanding to be able to quickly identify dependencies and simplify complex problems; analytical and data driven

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, skilled in collaboration and strategic partnering

• Passionate about the LEGO Group and a good fit to the culture - collaboration, value driven, bias for action

• Denmark based (BLL preferred, CPH possible with weekly travel to Billund)

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:
  0000017918
• Category
  Project / Program Management