Senior Manager, Circular Product Design - Electronics

Job Description
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We are playing our part in building a sustainable future. We’re on a journey to make our products and packaging continuously more sustainable, e.g., by improving our materials and designs.

As Senior Manager in Circular Product Design, you will help the LEGO Group make its products with embedded electronics more sustainable and circular. You will be part of a team that sets the strategic direction for circular product design, and you will be responsible for developing internal standards on topics that bridge electronics and sustainability, while also leading individual strategic projects on the matter.

*No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities
To succeed in the role, you bring a mix of deep knowledge on electronics, sustainability, and circularity, and find yourself proficient in topics like batteries, RFIDs, sustainable materials, and circular systems thinking. In combination, you have a proven record of strong project management capabilities and very strong people and communications skills. You approach work analytically and outcome driven and understand that collaboration is always the best approach.

• Lead strategic projects linked to circular product design in close collaboration with relevant partners across the company such as Operations, Product Designers and the Circular Business Models team
• Investigate opportunities and provide recommendations for global electronic take-back scheme working closely with our Circular Business Models’ team
• Develop internal positions and guidelines on sustainable and circular product design with a particular focus on electronics, e.g. batteries
• Be the company’s go-to person for inquiries on electronics from a sustainability perspective

Play your part in our team succeeding
You will be part of an ambitious team that enables us to deliver more sustainable and circular products and packaging through strategic direction setting and concrete guidance and standards.

Do you have what it takes?

• Science based background within environmental sustainability
• Deep experience working with electronics and environmental sustainability. Previous experience with circular product design in a corporate environment is preferred. Strong Project Management and communications skills with an analytical approach.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with ability to influence and collaborate with all levels of the organisation.
• Proven strategic approach with flair for simplifying complexities and seeing the bigger picture while paying attention to detail.

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.

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• Location
  • Billund, Denmark
  • London, United Kingdom
• Job ID:
  0000014721
• Category
  Communications & Corporate Affairs