People Partner (Director), Our LEGO Agency, Product & Marketing development

Job Description
This position supports the heart of the LEGO Group, where all new ideas and products come to life. You will be supporting a highly energetic and performing organization with massive impact on the LEGO® future.

Our LEGO Agency (OLA) is the internal agency of the LEGO Group. The organization is accountable for all content and campaign development across owned, earned and paid channels. Our LEGO Agency consist of close to 500 people, with headquarter in Billund, Denmark, but with hubs in London, Boston, Singapore and China.
Bring your senior partner skills and strategic capabilities and come play with us!

There is no relocation budget for this position

Core Responsibilities

• Provide strategic partnering primarily to the senior Vice president of “Our LEGO Agency” (OLA) and their leadership team

• Taking a leading role with Sr. management on organizational vision, design and development to meet strategic priorities

• Facilitate change management processes and enable the organization for the delivery of the future strategy (capability assessment and building processes),

• Act as trusted coach and sparring partner for people leaders to drive performance and team effectiveness

• Lead strong and impactful deployment of core HR processes in collaboration with global Centers of Excellence

• Accountable for recruitment prioritization and organizational / workforce governance across the different locations.

Play your part in our team succeeding
People, Places & Culture (PPC) organization within the LEGO Group includes areas as: Talent, Rewards, Insights, Diversity & Inclusion, Workplace experience, Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications and People Partnering function. The People Partnering organization covers HR Business Partnering as well as Employee relations, benefits and wellbeing. The people partnering is responsible for developing and deploying the people & culture agenda in line with the LEGO Group’s strategic direction. The People Partners are key enablers and driving forces behind, and together with senior business leaders in optimizing the organizational capability to reach the strategic priorities of the business plans.

Do you have what it takes?
The ideal candidate brings a relevant educational background combined with an extensive (+10 years) proven HR experience, from a global matrixed organization. Your strong senior partner management skills and solid business understanding are evidenced through solid written and verbal communication, the ability to manage stakeholders at all levels of the organization. In addition, we expect that you have experience in:

• Working with data to inform, make proposals and influence decisions, with compensation data and statutory reports

• Capability assessment and building from a medium/large size organization preferable within Agency/creative field

• Giving strategic advice and set directions for the people agenda

• Advice and co-develop the leadership team as an effective team
• Strong change adaptability, with proven record of running organizational change processes

Finally, you show a track record of running a strong E2E people agenda, transformation of HR processes and multiple priorities and deadlines.

As a person, you can establish and manage good relations to many different units and people at all levels in the organization. You are open minded, solution and result oriented, structured, and has a strong collaborative attitude. You work well dealing with ambiguity and you know how to balance local needs vs. global directions and influence accordingly.

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. For all candidates, 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:
  0000021375
• Category
  Human Resources