Senior People Manager - LEGO® Design

Job Description
Are you passionate about People Leadership? Do you aspire to play a pivotal role in the LEGO Global Design team, a diverse and world-leading organization dedicated to driving innovation?

Now is your chance as we are currently looking for a People Leader to join our Model Design Leadership team. Bring your excellent people leadership skills into play and be part of an extraordinary Design force that reaches children around the world with phenomenal building and play experiences!

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Core Responsibilities

• Lead large design teams, ensuring effective allocation of designers with various capabilities across different projects. The functional leadership lies with the creative leader.
• Drive initiatives to strengthen the design culture, including behavioral change programs.
• Continuously assess and develop design skills to meet current and future strategic needs and provide solutions for addressing skill gaps.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the design resource pool to effectively plan resource allocation, balancing individual strengths, availability, and skills with the strategic and innovation needs of the organization
• Empower designers to create robust individual development plans that align with both company objectives and personal career aspirations.
• Foster cross-functional alignment and collaboration by engaging with relevant partners
• Optimize tools and workflows to meet innovation needs, establishing consistent and efficient ways of working within the LEGO design teams and beyond.
• Lead and participate in various projects across the LEGO Design spectrum, including community engagement, mentorship programs, and training initiatives, to galvanize team activities.
• Serve as a leadership role model, demonstrating bravery, focus, and curiosity in a creative design environment, and inspiring others to do the same.

Play your part in our team succeeding
LEGO® Model Design is the home of around 200 Designers of all trades and the nucleus of innovation for the LEGO Group. Our mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow. As children shape their own worlds with LEGO bricks, we play our part in having a positive impact on the world they live in today and will inherit in the future.

In our community of People Leaders, we work closely with developing teams to achieve the strategic goals of the business. As our new Senior Manager, you will build capabilities and talents in a caring, fun, and creative way, through solid cooperation and communication with key partners across the organization. In a culture where collaboration and creativity are key, you will lead Designers who create and design products that delight and inspire our audiences globally.

Do you have what it takes?
The ideal candidate holds a degree in a design-related field (Product/Graphic/Fashion/Toys), Fine Arts, Engineering or similar. You can come with a variety of educational backgrounds, but most important is your passion for leading and developing people combined with your proficiencies. Ideally, you have more than a handful of years' experience with people leadership in large, diverse and agile organizations, handling people processes across different areas. Moreover, we expect you to:

• Identify areas of improvement and drive vital changes.
• Demonstrate expertise in organizational change, inspiring and motivating others to move in the right direction.
• Leverage thorough understanding and experience in HR to create value-adding initiatives for all partners.
• Maintain a strong focus on achieving ambitious goals and overcoming obstacles.
• Proactively push and remind others, as well as drive personal accountability, to ensure tasks are completed.
• Exhibit strong communication skills, using the most effective channels and platforms for maximum impact.
• Show a clear passion for navigating multiple people-related topics simultaneously.
• Be self-reflective and committed to developing personal leadership skills.
• Demonstrate a collaborative, one-team approach and lead efficiently at all levels.
• Actively seek and provide constructive feedback.
• Maintain composure and focus in stressful situations.
• Drive larger projects to completion through initiative and ownership.

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:
  0000021121
• Category
  Creative & Design