Project Manager

the LEGO Group; Billund; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and Disability Insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague Discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

The LEGO Group, a leading global toy designer and manufacturer, is seeking a Project Manager to drive consumer products from idea to launch. You will own end-to-end planning, risk management, and governance for initiatives across Licensing & Extended Line, coordinating with a diverse, worldwide stakeholder network.

In this role you will optimise processes, lead cross-functional teams, and ensure on-time delivery while balancing business goals and value chain excellence.

Qualifications

• Strong project management planning and risk management skills.
• Experience leading novelty product development projects.
• Ability to remove roadblocks and find alternative paths to objectives.
• Excellent communication and collaboration across time zones and functions.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• End-to-end planning and adjusting plans as needed.
• Lead a high-performing team with clear priorities.
• Lead risk management across feasibility, desirability, viability, and mitigate throughout the project lifecycle.
• Establish and improve ways of working to drive efficiency across global time zones.
• Manage project budgets and resources; facilitate trade-off decisions.
• Drive governance meetings and project reporting.

Skills

Project planning

Risk management

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

English fluency

Communication

Proactive mindset

Problem solving

Education

PM certification (SCRUM Master / 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 optimization, 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 continue strengthening how projects are planned and executed across the organisation.

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.