Strategy Partner, COO (Chief Operating Officer)

Job Description
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Do you want to put your end-to-end strategic capabilities to work in shaping the future of the LEGO Group’s Corporate strategy?

Then bring your outstanding skills in business partnering, problem solving, and communication to support our Chief Operating Officer and his leadership team on their strategic agenda!

Core Responsibilities

As part of the Strategy & Transformation function, you will join our Strategy Partner Team of 7 colleagues. The role reports into the Vice President of Strategy & Transformation and is based in Billund, Denmark.

Specifically, you will:

• Work closely with the COO and the Operations leadership team to drive their strategic agenda

• Collaborate with the other Strategy Partners and across functions to drive critical projects, strategy formulation, and problem-solving

• Ensure strategic initiatives progress and track well

• Constructively challenge and provide sparring to senior leaders on strategic topics to improve decision making

• Translate the Operations strategy into simple and clear communication for the COO to share with his senior leadership group and organisation

• Support the COO in ensuring his leadership team meetings and processes are run well and driving effective and efficient decision making

• Prepare materials on behalf of the COO for input and / or decision-making from the Executive Leadership Team and Board of Directors

Play your part in our team’s success

Working for the COO, you will collaborate closely with his leadership team and broader organisation. You will help run Operations leadership team meetings and support the COO’s strategic agenda while also engaging with your peer Strategy Partners to drive cross functional collaboration and end-to-end thinking.

Do you have what it takes?

The successful candidate comes with a Masters’ degree in Economics, Business Administration/Management, Engineering, or a similar field combined with a minimum of 6 years professional experience. This includes:

• Passion for Operations coupled with functional experience

• Outstanding business partnering skills at an executive level and an ability to build a strong network within the organisation; some experience in management consulting or similar strategic, consultative role is preferred

• Top-notch quantitative and analytical skills that allow you to extract logic, insights, and meaningful conclusions from complex business problems

• Time spent with an international company working with key stakeholders across different markets, preferably in a strategic capacity

• Ability to collaborate effectively with global colleagues including working with different cultures, in different time zones, and in different formats (online and offline)

• Excellent communication skills, enabling you to structure documents in convincing storylines and presentations for executive level interaction as well as break down complexity and communicate key messages simply to a large organisation

• A ‘can do’-attitude to ensure things are acted upon in a fast-paced environment

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:
  0000018891
• Category
  General Management