People Leader, Model Design: Grow Creative Groups

Lego Group; Billund; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family care leave

Insurance coverage

Wellbeing programs

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid workplace policy

Job summary

The LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark, is seeking a senior people leader to head a Creative Group within LEGO Design, anchoring leadership across Model Design. You will partner with creative leads, strengthen consistent leadership practices, and champion development of talent in a matrixed organizational setting.

The role blends hands‑on people leadership with broader influence across the Model Design community, promoting a culture of curiosity, empathy, and bold decision making.

Qualifications

• Provide people leadership for one creative group within Model Design, supporting individual growth, engagement, wellbeing, and performance.
• Work in close partnership with creative leads to ensure clear priorities, strong collaboration, and a cohesive leadership approach.
• Contribute to the wider Model Design community, helping to strengthen consistency in leadership practices, frameworks, and people processes.
• Strengthen design culture through leadership development, team effectiveness, and engagement initiatives.
• Assess current and future capability needs and help define development actions that support strategic priorities.
• Support workforce and resource planning through a strong understanding of organizational capabilities, development needs, and business direction.
• Enable individuals to create meaningful development plans aligned with both business priorities and personal aspirations.
• Build alignment across stakeholders and partners to support effective decision‑making and shared outcomes.
• Serve as a trusted leadership role model, demonstrating curiosity, courage, empathy, and sound judgement in a creative environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a high‑performing Creative Group, fostering growth, wellbeing, engagement, performance, and long‑term capability.
• Strengthen consistency across leadership practices, frameworks, people processes, and ways of working throughout Model Design.
• Drive organisational development, change initiatives, and cross‑community efforts that enhance leadership effectiveness and team performance.
• Create clear development pathways that align individual aspirations with business priorities and future workforce needs.
• Shape future‑focused capability plans that support strategic ambitions, talent growth, and organisational readiness.
• Build trusted relationships across leadership levels and collaborate effectively within a matrixed environment to drive alignment and impact.
• Balance strategic thinking with operational execution to deliver practical solutions, improved tools, and scalable frameworks.
• Champion an inclusive, empowering leadership culture that enables creative teams to do their best work and thrive in a design‑led environment.

Job description

The LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark, is seeking a senior people leader to head a Creative Group within LEGO Design, anchoring leadership across Model Design. You will partner with creative leads, strengthen consistent leadership practices, and champion development of talent in a matrixed organizational setting.

The role blends hands‑on people leadership with broader influence across the Model Design community, promoting a culture of curiosity, empathy, and bold decision making.