Senior Manager – Next-Gen Pre-Pack Counting Lead

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; On-site; DKK 1,400,000 - 2,000,000; 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 in Billund, Denmark, is seeking a Senior Manager to lead Next-Gen Pre-Pack Counting. You will own the roadmap for counting technology, align interfaces across subsystems, and oversee cross-functional teams including R&D, suppliers, and production sites to deliver scalable, reliable, and efficient counting solutions.

You will define operating concepts, install plans, and workflows, while ensuring safety, maintenance, and environmental compliance.

Qualifications

• Educational background within mechanical/marine engineering, automation or gained equivalent technical experience.
• Extensive experience and deep functional expertise in automation within high-volume production or mass-manufacturing environments, with focus on innovation and quality.
• Strong analytical skills for data-driven decision-making.
• Delivered operational excellence using LEAN principles to create reliable, scalable, and efficient production solutions.
• Proven leadership skills collaborating with R&D teams, suppliers, and production sites to qualify and implement new manufacturing technologies.
• Strong English communication skills (written and spoken).

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the counting technology roadmap to meet the full LEGO element portfolio.
• Define how LEGO elements will be counted efficiently, reliably, and at scale.
• Shape the equipment architecture and reduce interface risks between connected subsystems.
• Lead specialist teams and own workstream scope, quality, timing, and cost.
• Gather requirements and align specifications with project leaders, platform owners, automation partners, suppliers, and production stakeholders.
• Ensure new elements and product innovations can be handled by future counting technologies.
• Develop concepts and prototypes, test performance, and confirm technical feasibility.
• Define operating concepts, installation plans, workflows, and manufacturing-readiness requirements.
• Ensure maintainability, scalability, workplace safety, environmental compliance, and alignment with LEGO Group’s standards.
• Travel approximately four to six weeks annually to collaborate with partners, suppliers, and production sites.

Skills

Automation in manufacturing

LEAN principles

Leadership

Data-driven decisions

English fluency

Education

Mechanical/Marine engineering or Automation background

Tools

SAP

Job description

Job Description Just imagine redefining how thousands of LEGO® element shapes are counted, packed, and delivered through the next generation of packing technology. Then make it real. Join the R&D Pre-Pack Next Gen team, where we're developing advanced technologies and processes that will transform packing operations and help unlock up to a five-fold increase in output per square metre. This is a Senior Manager position based in Billund. Relocation isn't offered for this role.

About the role

As our new Senior Manager - Next-Gen Pre-Pack Counting Lead, you'll shape counting technology within the LEGO® Group’s Next Generation Packing Equipment programme. You'll own the roadmap for our future counting technology and define the future of this technical area. Combining deep automation insight, element insights with a broader systems perspective, you'll advance solutions that improve precision, scalability, and efficiency. You'll also shape the equipment architecture, aligning interfaces, specifications, and performance requirements across connected systems.

Required Qualifications

Educational background within mechanical/marine engineering, automation or gained equivalent technical experience. Extensive experience and deep functional expertise in automation within high-volume production or mass-manufacturing environments, with high focus on innovation and quality. Strong analytical skills for data-driven decision-making. Delivered operational excellence using LEAN principles to create reliable, scalable, and efficient production solutions. Proven functional leadership skills in collaborating with R&D teams, suppliers, and production sites to qualify and implement new manufacturing technologies. Strong communication skills being fluent written and verbally in English.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with SAP and sustainability initiatives. Ability to mentor and develop talent, fostering continuous learning. Strong networking skills and industry connections.

What you'll build

Create and maintain the counting technology roadmap to meet the full LEGO® element portfolio. Define how LEGO elements will be counted efficiently, reliably, and at scale. Shape the equipment architecture and reduce interface risks between connected subsystems. Lead specialist teams and own workstream scope, quality, timing, and cost. Gather requirements and align specifications with project leaders, platform owners, automation partners, suppliers, and production stakeholders. Ensure new elements and product innovations can be handled by future counting technologies. Develop concepts and prototypes, test performance, and confirm technical feasibility. Define operating concepts, installation plans, workflows, and manufacturing-readiness requirements. Ensure maintainability, scalability, workplace safety, environmental compliance, and alignment with the LEGO Group’s standards. Travel approximately four to six weeks annually to collaborate with partners, suppliers, and production sites.

Life on the team

You'll join the Research and Development (R&D) Pre-Pack Next Gen team. We share ideas openly and connect people across technical and business areas. You'll bring positive energy, empower specialists, mentor colleagues, and help others succeed. You'll take ownership when you spot opportunities and encourage practical innovation and continuous learning.

What success looks like

Success means setting a clear counting technology strategy and turning innovation into scalable production solutions. You'll work closely with programme leaders, automation partners, platform owners, suppliers, specialists, and production sites. Together, we'll improve equipment qualification, quality, and efficiency while building the capabilities needed to deliver up to five times more output per square metre in our production sites.

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.

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.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do.

We are aware of reports of fraudulent emails and social media messages from individuals falsely claiming to represent the LEGO Group recruitment teams. Please check that recruitment communications are from an official LEGO® email address before responding.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do.

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, and having fun.

Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to "inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow".