Element Planner

Job Description
Are you passionate about end-to-end planning in the product development process?

Then join us with your optimal planning skills and help ensure that we bring fantastic novelty products and experiences to market!

This is a one-year fixed-term contract with a potential start date of 1st June 2025. No relocation will be offered for this role.

Core Responsibilities
Being a part of a great team with 3 colleagues, with the shared responsibility to plan the overall novelty element flow, to enable empowered teams and operational excellence.

Plan the Portfolio

• Create a high-level execution flow-plan on novelty and new colour elements for all our novelty products, based on output from the rough-cut portfolio plan and close interaction with Project Leaders, Element Design Department and global Element Production sites. The element plan will ensure a levelled workload across all production sites and ensure all elements are available.
• Create plans by coordinating, prioritizing, and ordering elements, textiles, stickers etc. with the purpose of ensuring a feasible consolidated end-to-end plan. This involves understanding of the element value chain and working closely with various functional specialists and 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

• Being a key player in following up on the performance of the product development process.
• 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
We are a central player in building early forecasts and rolling 12-months overviews on 3 different levels: frozen horizon, assumption, and forecast plans. We constantly learn and improve the planning principles and data to enable better forecasting and flexibility for decision makers.

Do you have what it takes?

• Project Planner experience either from bigger pipeline/larger supply chain set ups, from Product Development, design organization or similar
• Proven experience in various planning methods from traditional waterfall planning towards various agile planning methods
• You have demonstrated that you can impact business results within a matrix organization where project organisation meets line organisation, and many priorities are at play
• Proven strong stakeholder management and problem-solving skills across many levels within an organisation
• Track-record of using data for impactful visual presentation and decision support, Excel skills at advanced level, knowledge of Power BI and SAP is an advantage
• Proficiency in English

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.

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:
  0000023395
• Category
  Data & Analytics