Director, Early Careers

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; Hybrid; DKK 1,000,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

The LEGO Group in Billund seeks a Director, Early Careers to shape the global ambition, strategy and operating model for Early Careers across the LEGO Group. You will connect programmes across offices, manufacturing and retail to ensure relevance in local markets and business needs, building the capability to turn strategy into lasting impact.

Relocation support is available for this role and the position offers a hybrid work model as outlined by the team.

Qualifications

• Led an Early Careers/Emerging Talent function in a large global matrix organisation across multiple countries and pathways.
• Designed, established or transformed an Early Careers strategy and operating model at scale.
• Connected Early Careers programmes to future workforce and skills needs using data, market insight and programme outcomes.
• Built teams and influenced senior stakeholders across functions, geographies and markets.
• Connected Early Careers with employer brand, talent attraction, education partnerships or outreach.
• Delivered programme design, development, rotations, conversion, retention or progression into longer-term talent pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Establish a clear and connected global Early Careers strategy and roadmap linked to future workforce and skills priorities.
• Map existing programmes, demand and investment across markets.
• Define the operating model, governance, measures of success and global versus local ownership.
• Determine the team and capability required to deliver the strategy.
• Identify priority opportunities for a connected global approach.

Skills

Early Careers leadership

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decision making

Global matrix experience

Talent strategy design

Job description

Job Description Just imagine building a world-class Early Careers capability that develops the LEGO Group's talent of the future. Then make it real.

About the role

As the Director, Early Careers, you’ll shape the global ambition, strategy and operating model for Early Careers across the LEGO Group. Spanning office, manufacturing and retail, you’ll create greater connection and consistency while ensuring programmes remain relevant to local talent markets and business needs. You’ll build the capability needed to turn the strategy into lasting impact. Please note: Relocation support is available for this role.

Required Qualifications

• Led an Early Careers/Emerging Talent function in a large global matrix organisation across multiple countries and pathways.
• Designed, established or transformed an Early Careers strategy and operating model at scale.
• Connected Early Careers programmes to future workforce and skills needs using data, market insight and programme outcomes.
• Built teams and influenced senior stakeholders across functions, geographies and markets.
• Connected Early Careers with employer brand, talent attraction, education partnerships or outreach.

Preferred Qualifications

• Delivered programme design, development, rotations, conversion, retention or progression into longer-term talent pipelines.

What you'll build

• Establish a clear and connected global Early Careers strategy and roadmap linked to future workforce and skills priorities.
• Map existing programmes, demand and investment across markets.
• Define the operating model, governance, measures of success and global versus local ownership.
• Determine the team and capability required to deliver the strategy.
• Identify priority opportunities for a connected global approach.

If you've worked in a role where you built or transformed an Early Careers capability, you'll feel at home here. Translating workforce needs into a coherent strategy and operating model will be key.

Life on the team

The newly formed Early Careers function sits within Talent, Culture & Organisation (TC&O), with the ambition to build sustainable future-talent pipelines and create meaningful experiences for emerging talent. You’ll shape the culture and capability of the function as it grows, bringing a builder mindset, taking practical action through ambiguity and creating an inclusive environment where teams share, test, learn and improve.

What success looks like

You’ll master building while delivering in a complex global organisation where programmes, education systems and business needs differ by country. Over the next 12 months, you’ll establish the foundations for scale and connect Early Careers more closely to future talent and skills needs. You’ll build strong collaboration across the organisation, including with Talent Acquisition, Strategic Workforce Planning, People Partners, Talent Management, Learning & Development, Employer Brand and business leaders, as well as key external partners.

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.

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”.