Expansion & Footprint Manager

1034 LEGO Company Limited; København; Hybrid; DKK 850,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family care leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing programs

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

LEGO Group is seeking an Expansion and Footprint Manager to drive LEGO Retail growth by developing business cases for new stores, relocations, refurbishments, and closures. You will support strategy through analysis, insight generation, and presentation development across retail operations, design, construction, real estate, and finance.

The role focuses on aligning priorities, building robust market expansion plans, and improving tools and processes to increase efficiency.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated outstanding quantitative and analytical skills to extract insights and conclusions from complex business problems.
• Built executive-level presentations and structured quantitative analysis for decision‑making audiences.
• Developed experience within retail, consumer packaged goods, or management consulting environments.
• Delivered cross-functional collaboration across multiple teams and functions to drive alignment.
• Maintained high standards of data integrity across business analysis and reporting activities.
• Managed project objectives while translating abstract ideas into clear and actionable recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Build business cases for new stores, relocations, refurbishments, and store closures to support investment decisions.
• Provide strategic analysis and recommendations that help shape retail expansion priorities.
• Develop tools and processes that improve efficiency and create a single source of truth.
• Partner with retail operations, design, construction, real estate, and finance functions.
• Present recommendations to audiences ranging from business partners to senior executives.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Executive presentations

Cross-functional collaboration

Data integrity

Project management

Stakeholder management

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Market analysis tools

Job description

Job Description

As our Expansion and Footprint Manager, you'll help drive the growth of LEGO® Retail by developing business cases for new stores, relocations, refurbishments, and store closures. You'll support strategic engagements through analysis, insight generation, and presentation development that helps inspire change across the organisation. Working across retail operations, design, construction, real estate, and finance, you'll help create a robust and coherent approach to market and channel expansion while improving tools and processes that increase efficiency and alignment.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated outstanding quantitative and analytical skills to extract insights and conclusions from complex business problems.
• Built executive-level presentations and structured quantitative analysis for decision‑making audiences.
• Developed experience within retail, consumer packaged goods, or management consulting environments.
• Delivered cross-functional collaboration across multiple teams and functions to drive alignment.
• Maintained high standards of data integrity across business analysis and reporting activities.
• Managed project objectives while translating abstract ideas into clear and actionable recommendations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Developed retail strategy with a focus on offline expansion.
• Delivered project or programme management initiatives.

What you'll build

• Business cases for new stores, relocations, refurbishments, and store closures to support investment decisions.
• Strategic analysis and recommendations that help shape retail expansion priorities.
• Tools and processes that improve efficiency and create a single source of truth.
• Partnerships across retail operations, design, construction, real estate, and finance functions.
• Presentations and recommendations for audiences ranging from business partners to senior executives.

Life on the team

You'll join the Retail Development team, supporting a key part of the LEGO® Group's growth strategy. This is a team that works closely with a broad range of functions to align priorities and create consistency across decisions and data. You'll thrive if you take initiative, recognise opportunities for improvement, contribute strongly within a team setting, and enjoy working collaboratively to solve business challenges.

What success looks like

Success means helping the organisation make well‑informed investment decisions through robust store business cases and clear strategic recommendations. You'll build strong partnerships across retail operations, design, construction, real estate, and finance while helping improve the tools and processes that support growth. As store expansion and portfolio development continue to play a key role in the plan 2030 strategy, your work will help create a stronger foundation for future growth.

What’s in it for you?

• 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”.