Senior Logistics Functional Specialist

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; Hybrid; DKK 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family care leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Job summary

The LEGO Group is seeking a senior functional specialist to own and develop the end-to-end material flow across inbound, storage, production supply, packaging and outbound logistics at our Billund site. You will translate operational needs into robust functional requirements and ensure interfaces between warehouse systems, equipment and external suppliers are well defined.

You will act as a senior sparring partner for project teams and factory operations, driving functional quality and

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing warehouse automation or intralogistics solutions in complex operations.
• Ability to connect material-flow processes with warehouse automation platforms (WMS/WES/WCS).
• Experience translating operational needs into functional requirements and measurable design criteria.

Responsibilities

• Own and develop the functional concept for end-to-end material flow across inbound, storage, internal transport, production supply, packaging and outbound logistics.
• Translate operational needs into clear functional requirements, process descriptions and interface requirements.
• Maintain a cohesive end-to-end functional view across equipment, automation and digital solutions.

Skills

Warehouse automation

Manufacturing logistics

Intralogistics

WMS/WES/WCS integration

Functional requirements translation

Tools

WMS

WES

WCS

Job description

Core Responsibilities

• Own and develop the functional concept for end-to-end material flow across inbound, storage, internal transport, production supply, packaging and outbound logistics, ensuring that the different flows operate as one coherent factory system.
• Translate operational needs and future capacity assumptions into clear functional requirements, process descriptions, flow logic, performance criteria and interface requirements that provide a robust basis for design, sourcing and contracting.
• Maintain the end-to-end functional view across equipment, automation and digital solutions, ensuring that individual technologies and supplier scopes work together and support the intended operating model.
• Define and govern functional interfaces and responsibilities across warehouse systems, material‑handling equipment, production areas, WMS/WES/WCS solutions and external suppliers, avoiding gaps between individual work packages and contracts.
• Challenge concepts and supplier proposals from a functional and operational perspective, assessing capacity, flow, exception handling, resilience, scalability, maintainability and impact on upstream and downstream operations.
• Ensure requirement traceability and functional quality throughout the project lifecycle, from concept and RFI/RFQ through design reviews, functional specifications, FAT, iFAT, SAT, commissioning, ramp‑up and final operational handover.
• Act as a senior functional sparring partner and go‑to specialist for project teams, factory operations, Logistics Technology, Digital, Procurement and suppliers, bringing practical logistics experience into complex decisions and issue resolution.
• Capture learning and strengthen reusable logistics principles, requirements and standards so that proven solutions and lessons from Greenfield and Brownfield projects can be applied across the LEGO Manufacturing network.

Play your part in our team succeeding MD&A Material Logistics is a global engineering and project function supporting factory expansion, operational performance and increased automation across LEGO Manufacturing. The team shapes logistics technologies, standards and solutions that can be applied across Greenfield and Brownfield projects as our manufacturing network grows.

Collaboration sits at the heart of the role. You’ll build connections across Logistics Operations, Manufacturing Engineering, Digital, Product Teams, Procurement and project organisations, while working closely with factory colleagues, automation suppliers and system integrators to build, rebuild and inspire better solutions together.

Do you have what it takes? Experience designing and implementing warehouse automation, manufacturing logistics or intralogistics solutions in complex operations. Comfortable connecting material‑flow processes with WMS, WES, WCS and logistics automation platforms. Experience translating operational needs into functional requirements, concepts and measurable design criteria. Collaborative approach to building networks, solving problems and influencing decisions across factory and supplier teams. Nice to Have Experience with Greenfield factories, Brownfield transformations or industrialising warehouse automation technologies. Familiarity with supplier evaluation, procurement processes and standardisation across an international manufacturing network. Relevant education in logistics, supply chain, industrial, mechanical, automation or production engineering is welcomed, while equivalent professional experience can bring just as much value. You’ll high level English and flexibility to travel internationally, where you’ll keep discovering new perspectives through collaboration with factory colleagues, suppliers and specialists across our global network.

What’s in it for you? Here is what you can expect:

• 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.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here

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.

Candidate 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.

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”.