Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships

1001 LEGO System A/S; Billund; Hybrid; DKK 1,100,000 - 1,700,000; 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

LEGO Group seeks a Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships to shape partnership strategy, guide portfolio decisions, and steward key external relationships, including the LEGO Foundation partnership.

You will oversee a global portfolio of NGO partnerships, coalition memberships, and foundation relationships while leading a small team and collaborating with senior leaders to strengthen impact and effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Led strategic partnerships, alliances, external affairs, philanthropy, or social impact portfolios at regional or global scale.
• Managed complex senior-level relationships across organisations, sectors, or geographies.
• Built partnership governance frameworks and portfolio management approaches that informed strategic decisions.
• Developed and coached teams through clear priorities, performance management, and professional growth.
• Delivered executive briefings, strategic communications, and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Assessed partnership performance, investment decisions, and portfolio effectiveness using qualitative and quantitative evidence.

Responsibilities

• Shape partnership strategy and guide portfolio decisions.
• Oversee global NGO partnerships, coalition memberships, alliances, and foundation relationships.
• Lead a small team and work with senior leaders to strengthen impact, influence, and effectiveness.
• Strengthen governance, decision-making processes, and ways of working across the partnership ecosystem.
• Maintain strong executive relationships with priority NGO, foundation, coalition, and alliance partners.

Skills

Strategic partnerships

Executive relationship management

Portfolio governance

Team leadership

Strategic communications

Data-driven decisions

Job description

Job Description Just imagine shaping the partnerships, alliances, and coalitions that help create lasting opportunities for children around the world. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships, you'll shape partnership strategy, guide portfolio decisions, and steward some of the most important external relationships, including the LEGO Foundation partnership. You'll oversee a global portfolio of NGO partnerships, coalition memberships, alliances, and foundation relationships while leading a small team and working closely with senior leaders to strengthen impact, influence, and effectiveness across the portfolio.

Required Qualifications

• Led strategic partnerships, alliances, external affairs, philanthropy, or social impact portfolios at regional or global scale.
• Managed complex senior-level relationships across organisations, sectors, or geographies.
• Built partnership governance frameworks and portfolio management approaches that informed strategic decisions.
• Developed and coached teams through clear priorities, performance management, and professional growth.
• Delivered executive briefings, strategic communications, and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Assessed partnership performance, investment decisions, and portfolio effectiveness using qualitative and quantitative evidence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Worked with UN agencies, international NGOs, foundations, coalition platforms, or multi-stakeholder partnerships.
• Supported executive participation in high-profile external forums and stakeholder engagements.
• Led alliance management across complex partnership ecosystems.
• Combined experience across corporate, philanthropic, development, or social impact environments.

What you'll build

• A clear and future-focused partnership strategy that creates long-term value and impact.
• A high-performing portfolio aligned to organisational priorities and meaningful outcomes for children and communities.
• Strong executive relationships across priority NGO, foundation, coalition, and alliance partners.
• Effective governance, decision-making processes, and ways of working across the partnership ecosystem.
• A productive and strategically aligned relationship with the LEGO Foundation.

Life on the team

You’ll join a team focused on helping social impact efforts create greater value and reach. We work collaboratively across functions and through a hybrid rhythm that brings people together to solve complex challenges.

Change agility, critical thinking, design thinking, storytelling, stakeholder relationship management, social engagement, business acumen, and collaboration are important parts of how the team works and learns together.

What success looks like

Over the next 12 to 18 months, you’ll strengthen partnership governance, refine portfolio choices, and identify new opportunities for collaboration, learning, and influence. You’ll work closely with the Senior Director, VP Social Impact, colleagues across Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Communications, Public Affairs, regional teams, and senior external partners to advance meaningful outcomes for children and communities.

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.
• 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.

Company culture

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.