Delivery Director, PELM at the LEGO Group

Billund, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

29 Mar, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

29 Dec, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Product Development, PLM Experience, Change Management, Transformation Leadership, Business Acumen, Stakeholder Management, Collaboration, Innovation, Digital Transformation, Operational Efficiency, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Program Management, Cross-Functional Team Leadership, Strategic Planning, Communication, Problem Solving

Industry

Manufacturing

Description

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 product development experience Extensive PLM experience coving master data, Bill of Material and Change Management amongst others Track record in leading large-scale Transformations in a multinational environment Strong business acumen with expertise in translating business needs into technology-driven solutions Strong structuring, stakeholder management, and business change management skills (incl. experience with executive-level communication). Strong drive and willingness to learn, being proactive and resourceful An effective collaborator with the ability to thrive in a complex business landscape Passion for innovation, digital transformation, and delivering tangible business outcomes 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. #EL - LI1 • 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. 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”.

Responsibilities

Lead a cross-functional team responsible for delivering a significant business transformation in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Collaborate with stakeholders to align technology with business strategy and ensure measurable business impact.