Innovation Ways-of-Working Manager

Job Description
Are you dreaming about shaping the future of product and marketing innovation in the LEGO Group? Do you thrive in guiding teams through complexity and uncertainty?

Join us as our new Innovation Ways-of-Working Manager and help transform the way we create and bring play experiences to market. Lead with insight, coach with purpose, and help (r)evolutionize how The LEGO Group fosters creativity and innovation!

Core Responsibilities
In this exciting position, you become a member of our Innovation Ways-of-Working team, made up of highly skilled and experienced coaches, advisors, and change agents with the purpose to encourage and enable people to evolutionize the way we develop play experiences and bring them to market.

We are seeking a dedicated individual with strong and versatile coaching abilities! You are capable of and comfortable with guiding the organisation in an environment of high degrees of uncertainty and complexity. Your professional playing field includes:

• Helping teams to navigate in uncertainty, elevating their ability to discover and deliver new products that consumers love.
• Coach and enable teams and leaders.
• Identify and remove complex impediments across organizational areas.
• Be strong at situational leadership. When needed be a strong advisor to senior partners, solve problems in close collaboration with teams and be an (agile) innovation lighthouse who guides to better ways-of-working and leading.
• Be generous and inspirational with your experience to help you and the rest of the Innovation Ways-of-Working team to continuously improve when creating movements, interventions, training, coaching sessions and solutions.

Play your part in our team succeeding
With its 3,000 employees, the LEGO Group’s Product & Marketing Development (PMD) organization is on a meaningful journey to figure out how to develop products for the future. In the Innovation Ways-of-Working Team we work across departments, teams and competency areas to make the strategy come alive, enable new ways of working in PMD and remove impediments across the organization and value streams that may hinder innovation. We work with a variety of senior partners and teams to continuously improve and encourage new ways-of-working and leading that foster innovation.

Do you have what it takes?

• You are a candidate with experience as a coach and/or leadership advisor and come with a proven coaching or advisory/consultancy toolbox.
• You have great experience working with leadership teams, building and developing team/organizational environments that foster innovation.
• You have a reputation as a trusted advisor, you’re collegiate and diplomatic in your approach, but also comfortable with decisive and deliberate interventions towards senior partners if needed.
• You have knowledge of why, when, and how to apply agile and other methodologies; also have knowledge about transformational theories and practices including e.g. behavioral science and balanced change and know how to combine them to a working solution for the organization.
• You have the ability to guide others while also being strong at crafting solutions yourself.

What will make you stand out:

• You may have experience in the discovery of and acting on insights from personality profiling.
• You may have previously worked in product development and/or marketing (both digital and non-digital products), allowing you to empathize with creative teams in both subject areas.

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
  • Billund, Denmark
  • Billund, Denmark
• Job ID:
  0000019552
• Category
  Project / Program Management