Job Description

Are you ready to lead a long-term PLM transformation at one of the world's most beloved brands? Join The LEGO Group and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our global processes, driving efficiency, innovation, and business excellence. If you're an experienced leader with a passion for PLM enabled strategic transformation, this is your opportunity to make a real impact.

'Relocated is offered for the role'

Core Responsibilities

You will be a leading role within a dedicated PLM team, delivering to one of the most important business transformations in the LEGO Group. In this role you will report to Head of Global PELM Transformation and have significant exposure to executive management of the LEGO Group.

The LEGO Group is on an exciting journey to transform and modernize its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) capabilities, ensuring that our business operations evolve to enhance product innovation and portfolio delivery. Our future state is “Play Experiences Lifecycle Management” (PELM) recognising that our future products will deliver richer play experiences to our consumers.

As the Director, PELM Transformation Delivery, you will play a critical role in leading and driving this transformation, ensuring it delivers measurable business impact. You will collaborate closely with key stakeholders across the organization to align technology with business strategy, enabling enhanced operational efficiency, data-driven decision-making, and scalability for future growth.

In the role you will:

• Lead a cross-functional, indirect, programme team responsible for transformation delivery, including how the deliverables result in business outcomes and value, delivered through business change management and deployment of new capabilities
• Lead cross functional business engagement, ensuring the right stakeholders; business leaders and Subject Matter Experts are identified and engaged; with this role as the focal point shaping and prioritising the transformation programme.
• Work closely with senior business leaders, Digital teams, and functional leads (Product & Marketing Development, Operations, Finance, etc.) to define business needs, priorities, and success criteria for the long-term transformation.
• Ensure high transparency across the programme by creating and orchestrating the critical path, managing interdependencies across programmes, owning the preparation for critical strategic, decision-making meetings (up to C-level), and supporting teams to work towards defined milestones.
• Be the critical decider prioritising programme deliveries within and across workstreams. Working with functional and digital stakeholders to synthesize and manage programme scope, setting workstream direction and priorities, managing demand versus capacity and dependencies across the PELM workstreams and with dependencies beyond the PELM programme. Making recommendations to Senior Leadership Group members for changes in scope, prioritisation etc.
• Collaborate with our Digital Technology Leads and Implementation partner(s), ensuring implementation according to safeguard scope, timelines and resources to deliver a fit for purpose solution that is scalable and aligned with business objectives.
• Through established governance bodies onboard senior business leaders across the LEGO Group to significant milestones and system go-lives.
• Facilitate roadmap and business case(s) for future benefits to be harvested through engagement with stakeholders across the global organization.
• Foster an environment in which PELM Programme team members feel motivated and have an ability to grow and deliver.
   

Play your part in our team succeeding

The global PELM Transformation Team is responsible for leading one of the top business priorities of the LEGO group in close collaboration with colleagues from the entire organization.

Our ambitions are big; Members of the team are passionate about enhancing existing and building new PLM capabilities enabling the LEGO Group to innovate new product types, deliver a larger product portfolio more efficiently, leverage technology to empower our teams and reduce time to market improving LEGO Group competitiveness.

Do you have what it takes?

A higher degree within Engineering, Product Development or Management in combination with your eye for business and well-developed interpersonal skills helps you to form strong working relationships across all levels and functions in the organisation. Similarly, your excellent leadership and collaboration capabilities drive you to prioritise efficiently and get energized in a programme-based, cross functional team environment. Moreover, the successful candidate comes with:

• ~15 years of proven prod