Project Manager

lego; Billund; On-site; DKK 800,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

LEGO Group is seeking a Project Manager to drive consumer products from idea to launch, balancing business goals, innovation, and value-chain excellence across a global stakeholder network.

You will own end-to-end planning, risk management, and governance, while continuously improving processes and ways of working within the Licensing & Extended Line organization.

Qualifications

• Strong project planning and risk management to drive proactivity.
• Proven experience leading novelty product development projects.
• Resilient mindset with ability to remove roadblocks and find alternatives.
• Strong team leadership to keep a motivated team with clear priorities.
• Collaborated with global teams across functions and time zones.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Plan end-to-end project schedules and adjust plans as needed.
• Provide daily informal team leadership, ensuring progress and clear priorities.
• Lead risk management across feasibility, desirability, viability and mitigation activities.
• Set up and improve ways of working to drive efficiency across global teams.
• Manage project budgets and resources, facilitate trade-offs and cost recommendations.
• Drive governance meetings, gate reviews, and project updates.

Skills

Project planning

Risk management

Product development

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

English communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

SCRUM Master

IPMA

PMI

PRINCE2

Job description

Job Description

Just imagine helping great ideas become great products through the power of collaboration, planning, and leadership. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Project Manager, you'll play a vital part in driving consumer products and experiences from idea to launch balancing business ambitions, innovation, and value chain excellence across a global stakeholder landscape.

As the Project Manager, you'll have responsibility for creating clarity and momentum across the project team. You'll own end-to-end project planning, risk management and governance, while continuously looking for opportunities to optimise processes and ways of working.

Working across the LEGO Group's Licensing & Extended Line organisation, you'll collaborate with a diverse global stakeholder network to keep projects progressing through critical milestones.

Please note that relocation assistance is not available for this position. Some flexibility in working hours will be required due to the global nature of the role.

Required Qualifications

• Strong Project Management toolbox and craftmanship e.g. building strong project plans & excellent risk management to drive proactivity
• Proven experience leading novelty product development projects
• Resilient mindset with a demonstrated ability to remove roadblocks and find alternative pathways to achieve objectives
• Strong team leadership skills to ensure a highly motivated team with clear direction & priorities
• Collaborated with global teams across multiple functions and time zones
• Self-driven with a positive, proactive and analytical mindset
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with proven ability to engage at all organizational levels and with cross functional colleagues
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken

Preferred Qualifications

• Completed a recognised project management certification such as SCRUM Master, IPMA, PMI, or PRINCE2
• Understanding of supply chain management, operations, planning, or procurement
• Worked within physical product development environments

Core Responsibilities:

• Planning & progress management: Responsible for E2E planning and adjustment of plans where needed
• Daily (informal) team leadership: Ensure progress, clarity in priorities and roles and secure a high performing and motivated team
• Risk Management: Lead risk management and assessment across both feasibility, desirability, and viability and secure mitigation activities through project lifetime with a full E2E value chain perspective. Own quality management activities and play a key role in managing project complexity
• Ways of Working: Responsible for setting up, implementing and improving ways-of-working to drive efficiency of a global team in different time zones e.g. meeting structure, workshops and continuous improvement on processes
• Cost management, resourcing & project budgets: Responsible for managing project budgets and resources for products. Facilitate trade‑off dialogues, requests and cost recommendations.
• Drive governance meetings e.g. gate meetings, project updates and reporting

What you'll build

• Project plans that drive transparency, progress, and alignment
• Effective ways of working that enable global collaboration and launch on time
• Risk and quality management approaches that support proactive decision-making
• Governance structures that keep projects moving forward and teams focused on delivery

If you've worked in a role where you managed product development projects from planning through launch, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to create clarity, solve problems, and help teams achieve shared goals and have fun while doing so.

Life on the team

The LEGO Group's Licensing & Extended Line (LEL) department is responsible for growing our unique reach with consumers and deepening engagement through extended line and licensed products. As Project Manager, you will take responsibility for strategy deployment, project planning, resource and budget management, process optimisation, ways of working, and securing overall project progress to meet critical milestones. You will lead projects across LEL and in collaboration with other parts of the LEGO Group.

You'll join the Project Management & Portfolio Enabling team within Licensing & Extended Line - a team who make things happen. We drive projects forward, bring people together, create structure in complexity, and keep momentum when things get challenging. At the same time, we create transparency and overview across our project portfolio and help enable the wider organisation to succeed. We believe that a good laugh, a bit of humour, and having fun along the way are just as important as delivering great results.

What success looks like

Success means driving projects forward while enabling strong collaboration across the value chain. You'll work closely with colleagues across e.g. design, packaging engineering, graphics, marketing, and other specialist functions to deliver successful launches and con