Senior Creative Manager

1001 LEGO System A/S; Østerby; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Job summary

LEGO Group in Billund seeks a Senior Creative Manager to lead brick-based marketing concepts from brief to final presentation. You’ll translate partner needs into clear briefs, guide creative teams and ensure scalable BBM moments that align with brand strategy.

You’ll collaborate across disciplines, mentor designers, and drive quality across campaigns, launches and moments for 2027 and 2028 with a global partner network.

Qualifications

• Extensive creative and/or strategic experience, including leadership of creative work, teams or omnichannel projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor designers, providing clear creative direction and feedback.
• Translate partner needs into clear briefs, creative directions and scalable BBM concepts.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams and drive creative decisions through development, validation, pitch and approval.

Skills

Creative leadership

Strategic thinking

Storytelling

Presentation skills

Job description

About the role

As our Senior Creative Manager in the Brick Based Marketing Studio (the Studio), you'll lead the creative journey from partner need to impactful brick-based marketing concept. You'll uncover what partners are really trying to achieve, including when a clear brief does not yet exist, and translate those needs into strong briefs, creative directions and scalable brick based marketing (BBM) concepts. You'll help drive LEGO Model Production (LMP) transition from models to moments, combining strategic thinking with strong creative judgement. You will collaborate closely with designers, and the Studio colleagues, bring multidisciplinary partners together and make creative decisions as concepts move from opportunity and brief through development, validation, pitch and approval.

Note: This role is based in Billund, Denmark. Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

Required Qualifications

• Extensive creative and/or strategic experience, including several years leading creative work, teams or omnichannel projects.
• Proven ability to uncover complex partner or client needs and shape clear creative ideas, including when the initial ask is ambiguous or incomplete.
• Experience translating business, brand and audience objectives into compelling creative concepts with clear intended outcomes.
• Demonstrated creative leadership, including the ability to guide, mentor and provide direction and feedback to creative contributors.
• Strong creative judgement with experience validating creative work against strategic relevance, brand alignment, feasibility, scalability and expected impact.
• Experience using data, insights and partner knowledge to strengthen creative concepts and deliver measurable brand and/or business outcomes.
• Strong communication, storytelling and presentation skills, with experience pitching creative concepts and leading dialogue with senior partners and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience identifying cultural or creative trends and translating them into new creative opportunities.
• Experience leading agencies, freelancers or external creative partners as part of a wider creative ecosystem.

What you’ll build

Lead and mentor designers, providing clear creative direction and constructive feedback to move the work forward. Safeguard creative quality, helping ensure work meets the required standard before key presentations or launches. Help establish the Studio as a trusted strategic creative partner, strengthening the studio's creative standards, credibility and impact across the organisation. Translate partner needs, shopper insights and business objectives into clear creative propositions, using relevant trends and learnings from previous work to strengthen concepts from early exploration through development and pitch. Lead brainstorms, workshops and creative reviews, helping multidisciplinary teams explore possibilities and progress towards strong creative solutions. Develop and communicate concepts through visual storytelling, sketches, prototypes, models or presentations, making the experience and creative thinking clear and compelling to partners. Balance creative ambition with feasibility, scalability, cost and quality, collaborating with design, engineering, production and relevant external partners as concepts develop. Present and advocate for creative proposals while constructively challenging partners and colleagues to strengthen strategy and execution. Proactively identify new opportunities for BBM experiences and contribute to raising the creative and professional standard across the studio. If you've taken an unclear business or partner need and shaped it into a creative direction that others could believe in and deliver against, you'll feel at home here. What matters is your ability to lead through ambiguity, make strong creative judgements and connect ambitious ideas with tangible brand and business impact.

Life on the team

The Brick Based Marketing Studio is building on the LEGO Group’s heritage of brick-built creativity while expanding the ambition from individual models to moments. As a global centre of excellence for brick-based marketing, the Studio works with partners to identify where LEGO® bricks can create a distinctive marketing advantage, from global stages to local stores. You’ll join a collaborative creative environment combining focused concept development with brainstorming and creative reviews. As Senior Creative Manager, you’ll help set the creative standard, develop the people around you and strengthen the Studio partners with the wider business.

What success looks like

You’ll strengthen the journey from partner need to brief, BBM concept and impactful creative outcome, helping strong ideas progress while raising the quality of the Studio creative work. You’ll also help establish the Studio as a trusted strategic partner as the team develops Brick Based Marketing Moments for 2027 and 2028 for various partners, including branded stores.

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.

Your workplace

Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working

Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

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. 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, andhaving fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.