Senior Manager / Team Leader - LEGO Building Experience Development

Job Description

As Team Leader for LEGO Building Experience Development, you will lead a team creating high-quality physical and digital building experiences for LEGO builders of tomorrow. You will guide people, priorities and delivery, ensuring that our building instructions are intuitive, age-appropriate and grounded in consumer insight.

Core Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• Lead the daily operations of the LEGO Building Experience Development team, balancing internal customer needs, priorities and delivery demands.
• Take responsibility for people leadership and employee-related activities, guiding the team across day-to-day work, projects and product deliveries.
• Support the development of team members through regular one-to-one conversations, coaching and constructive sparring.
• Set the tactical and operational direction for the department, ensuring strong delivery across tasks, projects and product development activities.
• Align project plans, resource capacity, milestones and deadlines with key stakeholders, creating transparency around progress, risks and dependencies.
• Drive and support consumer building experience testing, ensuring insights and learnings are translated back into the team’s work.
• Lead within a hybrid Scrum environment and help the team continuously develop its agile ways of working.
• Foster a highly collaborative One Team environment across functions, disciplines and stakeholder groups.
• Help integrate new building and play experiences into relevant digital solutions and building instructions across physical and digital touchpoints.

Play your part in our team succeeding

LEGO Building Experience brings together expert teams that create world-class physical and digital building instructions and experiences for LEGO builders of tomorrow.

We work closely with business stakeholders and use an agile mindset to develop inspiring building experiences that support a natural build flow and reflect the motor and cognitive abilities of different target audiences. Our ambition is to bring physical and digital experiences together through a united and intuitive design language.

We are looking for an engaging and adaptable people leader who can provide clear direction while creating an environment where people can develop and succeed. You are comfortable balancing people leadership, project delivery and stakeholder expectations, and you value quality, collaboration and consumer focus.

Do you have what it takes?

• A handful of years of management experience within product development, innovation, design or another relevant business area.
• At least some years of direct people leadership experience.
• Experience working within a design organisation and leading medium to large projects.
• Strong leadership capabilities, with the confidence to set direction, make impactful decisions and empower a diverse team.
• Experience supporting people development through coaching, regular feedback and one-to-one conversations.
• Knowledge of Agile and Scrum principles and experience working within agile delivery environments.
• Proven stakeholder management, collaboration and communication skills across different levels of a matrix organisation.
• The ability to translate strategic and tactical priorities into clear actions and implementation plans.
• Experience creating transparency around progress, status, risks and delivery in relevant decision-making forums.
• A strong process and quality focus, combined with a self-driven, results-oriented and proactive approach.
• A collaborative and team-oriented mindset, with a high level of change readiness and a constructive can-do attitude.
• Advanced written and spoken English skills

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.

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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”.