Senior Project Manager - Product and Experience Development

Job Description
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Can you imagine being the calm lighthouse across different project teams in an environment where change is a constant?
Join us with your phenomenal project leadership skills and together we influence how and what the LEGO Group brings to the market!

Please note the work location is Billund, Denmark and no relocation assistance is offered for this role.

Please expect a delay in this recruitment process due to holiday season.

Core Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvements on existing processes
• Create the fundament for new processes to enable growth for the future and to secure the right output in projects
• Challenge business rationale from a feasibility and profitability point of view
• Lead, drive and plan product and experiences from idea to launch collaborating with colleagues within and outside Licensing & Extended Line
• Secure project progression and stakeholder management throughout the project
• Lead risk management and assessment across both feasibility, desirability, and viability and secure mitigation activities through project lifetime with a full E2E value chain perspective
• Responsible for quality delivery and key player in complexity management
• Key driver of motivation & satisfaction in the project team together with the lead team by setting clear direction, align expectations and running team activities

Play your part in our team succeeding
The Licensing & Extended Line team focuses on enriching and extending the LEGO portfolio to predominately non-brick categories, and we aspire to deliver relevant products that surround LEGO play to foster creative play culture. We focus on motivating and supporting the teams to be the best version of themselves and balancing innovation and value chain optimization!

As Senior Project Manager, you will take overall responsibility for strategy deployment, project planning, resource and budget management, process optimization, ways of working and secure the overall project progress to meet critical milestones in various projects.

Do you have what it takes?

• 5 + years experience in project management with valid certification
• Experience working with agile project management
• Proven track record in leadership, process development, implementation and optimization is required
• An excellent teammate and collaborator with strong communication skills and passionate about working with cross functional colleagues and senior partners
• Resilient when things are tough, able to remove roadblocks and look for different ways to achieve the objective
• Self-driven with a positive, proactive, humoristic and can- do mindset
• Commercial understanding and acumen
• Ideally, solid know how on supply chain management such as operations, planning and procurement

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 minority 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:
  0000017674
• Category
  Project / Program Management