Senior Manager, Strategy & Operating Model

Job Description
Are you passionate about collaborating, analyzing, and driving strategic opportunities?

Have you ever wondered how the LEGO® bricks are made? The LEGO Group’s Operating Model is our recipe to do this in a successful way! Like any recipe, it will only give us the results we want to achieve if we use the right ingredients or find the right trade-offs. In this role you will ensure to continuously evolve and develop the Operating Model, to best enable our future strategy!

Core Responsibilities
In this role, there is an opportunity to review the entire value-chain about how LEGO ® products or experiences are brought to market by working and collaborating across the organization to tease out trade-offs or changes to our current business logic.

• Strategy Leadership for Operating Model - Lead and support strategic efforts related to the corporate Operating Model during upcoming strategy periods.
• Value Chain Analysis & Optimization - Collaborate with leaders and subject matter experts cross the organization to assess and enhance the value chain, ensuring delivery of value to customers, shoppers, and consumers while maintaining profitability.
• Interdependencies and Strategic Impacts - Identify and describe the interdependencies of new strategic initiatives, assessing their impacts upstream and downstream in the value chain, and contribute to finding the best end-to-end (E2E) solutions.
• Transformational Change & Business Model Assessment - Identify key challenges and define the capabilities needed for significant transformational changes, assessing business model opportunities and their overall impact on the organization.
• End-to-End Value Creation Design - Provide external perspectives and apply conceptual design thinking to enhance end-to-end value creation within the organization.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - Drive collaborative engagements with cross-functional teams and external partners to ensure alignment and successful strategy execution.
• Internal Knowledge Sharing - Promote internal education and knowledge sharing on the Operating Model to drive understanding and engagement across the organization.

Play your part in our team succeeding
The Supply Chain Digital Transformation team, focus on providing thought leadership, practical solutions, and support in the generation of performance changing supply chain innovation and digitization.

On top of our Supply Chain remit, we are also the custodians of the LEGO Group ́s Operating Model, bridging our corporate strategy to the executional level across developing/making/selling LEGO products. With transformation as focus, we are part of the Operations Transformation department by being responsible for scouting, evaluating, and helping to execute major changes in the Supply Chain.

Do you have what it takes?

• With a background in Supply Chain and operations, or with strategic consulting where you have proven experience in leading cross-functional transformation activities.
• Proven experience in driving trade off discussions, from the Ideation of a product and its development to Supply Chain and to successfully commercialize it.
• Experience in strategy development and process design along with proven leadership in global projects and change management programs.
• Strong business insight acumen, with a strategic approach and broad knowledge across entire value-chain (focus on supply chain)
• Experience working in an agile / product orientated structure.
• Excellent communication skills, with the capacity to transform complex situations into compelling stories and strategic recommendations.
• Creative, curious, and opportunistic approach and can thrive in ambiguous environment.

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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, South Denmark, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000016874
• Category
  Supply Chain