Senior Manager, People Leader, System & Material Governance

Job Description
Do you thrive on leading and working in a dynamic, evolving environment? We’re looking for a People Leader to join our System & Material Governance team within the LEGO® Global Design organization — a dedicated team driven by quality, collaboration, and continuous innovation.

In this dual role based in our headquarter in Billund, you will excel in direct people leadership while also ensuring that the organization operates efficiently and effectively. Bring your exceptional leadership skills into play and become a part of a world-class design force that creates new LEGO bricks for build and play experiences for people around the globe!

Core Responsibilities
The System & Material Governance is a department where the key focus is to champion the LEGO building system (DUPLO, LEGO and Technic), and govern the architecture of the platforms and systems, to develop, maintain and optimize the compatibility and values of the LEGO elements. This area is core to innovating and protecting the System-in-play philosophy.

As a people leader in the department, your core responsibilities will be:

• Lead productive team meetings to share updates, strategies, and goals, promoting teamwork.
• Conduct regular 1:1 meetings to support team growth with coaching, feedback, and active listening.
• Balance support for the LEGO Group direction with people-focused approaches.
• Develop understanding of portfolio experiences, development processes, and results.
• Optimize processes and tools to enhance organizational efficiency.
• Lead by example in diversity and inclusion, fostering collaboration and trust.

Play your part in our team succeeding
System & Material Governance is a part of LEGO® Design organization that consist of a dynamic, creative and collaborative culture. 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 creativity and quality are key, you will lead Design Engineers/Element Coaches in System & Material Governance.

Do you have what it takes?
While this role is focused on people leadership rather than creative leadership, the ideal candidate holds an educational background or equivalent experience in a Product development area (Design, Engineering) or a related field. This foundation enables strong understanding and guidance of our Design Engineers/Element Coaches and their work. The paths you've taken may vary, yet the key factor lies in your commitment to guiding, cultivating and enabling people. It is advantageous if you bring substantial experience in leading teams within diverse and agile organizations, running people processes and functional responsibilities across different areas.

Additionally, we anticipate that you:

• Demonstrate a collaborative approach and efficiency in management at all levels.
• Strong visual and illustrative communications skills.
• Demonstrate a willingness to grow and improve your own leadership abilities.
• Take initiative and ownership when driving solutions.
• Hold proficiency level in English (spoken & written).

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.
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.

• Management Level
  Senior Manager
• Job ID:
  0000029524
• Category
  Creative & Design
• Location
  Billund, Denmark