Senior Manager, Retail Real Estate - North America

Job Description

Are you passionate about Retail Real Estate? Are you ready to take the next step in your real estate career and help drive success across a global portfolio? We look forward to hearing from you!

The LEGO Group is seeking a Real Estate Senior Manager to support the execution of ongoing portfolio strategies, drive lease renewals, and oversee the finalization of approved lease agreements.

Core Responsibilities:

Portfolio Management & Lease Execution

• Take approved leases to the finish line by driving execution processes post-Real Estate Committee (REC) approval, ensuring alignment with business timelines and priorities

• Coordination of LOIs and landlord communications, ensuring leases are finalized efficiently.

• Support ongoing portfolio decisions, including lease renewals, extensions and other critical actions.

• Partner with external landlords, brokers, and real estate partners to ensure lease terms align with our business objectives

Lease Standards & Reporting

• Manage key lease documentation, ensuring compliance with company standards, legal requirements, and critical dates.

• Maintain an accurate and updated lease portfolio using company software and tools.

• Support with periodic reviews of the portfolio to identify risks, opportunities, and cost-saving initiatives.

• Monitor and track critical lease milestones, such as notice periods, rent escalations, and expiry dates, to avoid missed deadlines and ensure timely decision-making

Collaboration

• Work closely with internal teams—Footprint Strategy, Retail Design, Construction, Finance, Legal, and Retail Operations—to support decision-making and lease implementation.

• Facilitate timely communication with all partners to keep projects on schedule and aligned with business priorities

Play your part in our team succeeding

Retail Development is part of the LEGO Retail organization responsible for our Direct to Consumer (D2C) business – namely LEGO.com and our portfolio of LEGO Branded stores.

Do you have what it takes?

• Proven experience managing lease portfolios, including renewals, extensions and critical date tracking

• Strong understanding of Letters of Intent (LOIs), lease terms, risk mitigation, and finalizing agreements in collaboration with internal partners

• Experience managing multiple real estate projects simultaneously, from approval to execution, with attention to timelines and deliverables.

• Clear and concise verbal and written communication

• Attention to detail: High level of accuracy in lease documentation, critical date management and reporting

• A self-starter mentality with a focus on achieving goals and driving lease execution to completion

• Thrives in a collaborative environment that values trust, support, and open communication, contributing positively to a team culture where everyone succeeds together
• Up to 30% domestic travel will be required for this role

Compensation

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 are some of what to 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 you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

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

Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here

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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

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.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

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About Us

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do.Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building,rebuilding,and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating,inventing,and having fun.Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.