Planning Manager Specialist (1 year contract)

Job Description
Join us and help bring innovative, play driven products to the world. Be part of a dynamic team where collaboration is key, and our mantra is simple: “One Team – One Plan. No one has a plan until everyone has a plan!”

Please note that this role is offered on a one-year fixed term contract.

Core Responsibilities

Plan the Portfolio

• Ensure an overall execution and levelled plan that cover all novelty products in the future portfolio: Models, Novelty elements, and components across many departments in PMD and into the supply chain.

• A valuable partner in process optimization across the departments high-level flow-plan for novelty LEGO products. You will be involved in planning various workstreams going into a LEGO product. with the purpose of ensuring a feasible consolidated end-to-end plan. This involves understanding the value chain and working closely with various functional experts and Project Leaders.

• You find pride in top-quality deliveries but are also able to balance and prioritize your deliveries based on time constraints and cost in an environment where change is the norm.

Develop our ways of working

• You are a key player in following up on the performance of the product development process.

• You are part of boosting a culture with increased empowerment, trust and accountability for the overall goals – working by the philosophy that leadership is for everyone.

Play your part in our team succeeding
PMD Planning is a team with the overall responsibility to plan the overall portfolio flow, to enable empowered teams and operational excellence. We influence and optimize plans before they are committed, to set the teams up for successful execution including sustainable levelled workload. And we help the organization learn from current performance to build better plans and ways of working.

Do you have what it takes?

• Experience within Project Management, Logistics or a related business or management education or

• Project Planner experience either from bigger pipeline/larger supply chain set ups, from Product Development, design organization or similar

• Industry experience in various planning methods from traditional waterfall planning towards various agile planning methods

• You have demonstrated that you can confidently impact business results within a matrix organization where project organization meets line organization, and many priorities are at play

• Understanding of and ability to drive planning within a mixed physical and digital pipeline

• Proven strong stakeholder management

• Pragmatic and problem-solving skills across many levels within the organization

• Track-record of applying data for impactful visual presentation and decision support

• Experience with SAP

Please note: This is a position based in Billund, Denmark. Our flexible working model allows employees to work 2 days/week from home (3 days in the office). Relocation support is not offered for this role.

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:
  0000019015
• Category
  Project / Program Management