Senior Technical Project Manager, Advanced Development

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 working (Best of Both)

Job summary

The LEGO Group invites a seasoned Hardware Project Office professional to join our team in Billund. You will guide cross-disciplinary teams across engineering, manufacturing, and quality to deliver innovative hardware and software platforms for our products.

You will lead complex projects in consumer electronics, coordinating with external partners and internal stakeholders to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery while maintaining high quality and manufacturability.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience in consumer electronics engineering project management and delivery in robotics/ mechatronics, mechanical, electronics, systems, or a closely related field.
• The ability to proactively engage with all parts of the project organization and external partners to ensure alignment, reduce risks, and ensure work output.
• Deep understanding of the processes, tools, and ways of working within technology development projects.
• Solid experience in leading a multi‑functional team and people in a related field, in collaboration with multiple cross‑organizational teams such as engineering, quality, procurement, and manufacturing.
• A can‑do attitude, superb communication, and motivational skills.
• Strong collaboration and partner leadership skills.
• Entrepreneurial spirit with passion for new technologies and to drive innovation.
• Strategic and well‑rounded problem solver with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate development of software & hardware solutions and technology platforms for full life cycle with emphasis on reusability and manufacturability.
• Collaborate with strategic partners to bring emerging technologies into products shaping future play.
• Lead the project to deliver within agreed time, cost, quality, and volume constraints.
• Ensure progress with timely decisions, planned review meetings, monitored dependencies, and budget alignment.
• Present complex technical decisions clearly to senior stakeholders to enable business decisions.
• Drive agreement among multifunctional leads, balance engineering and manufacturing interests, escalate when needed.
• Establish and maintain a well-functioning multi-discipline team.
• Plan project tasks with workstream leads and coordinate across workstreams and activities.
• Manage change control and ensure significant changes align with collaborators.
• Identify, track and mitigate project risks.

Job description

Job Description

This role is a key member of the Hardware Technology Project Office Team, under the Head of Hardware technology elements with a dotted line to Advanced Development Leadership Team. Both teams work together within The LEGO Group to develop new and innovative technology solutions and experiences at scale whilst collaborating with the rest of the Product & Operations organization.

Responsibilities

• Working with Engineering colleagues to coordinate the development of software & hardware solutions and technology platforms for the complete life cycle, utilizing the most relevant technology with a dedicated focus on reusability and manufacturability.
• Coordinating with key strategic development partners to bring emerging and advanced technologies into products which can shape the future of play.
• Leading the project to deliver within the agreed frames of time, cost, quality, and volume.
• Being responsible for ensuring adequate progress towards work, including ensuring decisions are made in a timely fashion, review meetings planned, dependencies supervised, tasks delivered as expected, work done within budget and communication made to all team members.
• Being able to present difficult and complex technical decisions in a clear and concise manner to senior stakeholders, enabling them to make business critical decisions in a timely manner.
• Driving collective agreement among the multifunctional lead team, balancing the interest between engineering and manufacturing, and escalating to the SteerCo or Project Sponsor if agreement cannot be reached.
• Establishing and maintaining a well-functioning multi-discipline team.
• Planning project tasks and activities with workstream leads and ensuring coordination across workstreams and other activities.
• Managing change control and ensure that all significant changes to time, cost, quality, and scale are aligned with critical collaborators.
• Identify, track and mitigate (wherever possible) all project risks.

Do you have what it takes?

• Extensive hands‑on experience in consumer electronics engineering project management and delivery in robotics/ mechatronics, mechanical, electronics, systems, or a closely related field.
• The ability to proactively engage with all parts of the project organization and external partners to ensure alignment, reduce risks, and ensure work output.
• Deep understanding of the processes, tools, and ways of working within technology development projects.
• Solid experience in leading a multi‑functional team and people in a related field, in collaboration with multiple cross‑organizational teams such as engineering, quality, procurement, and manufacturing.
• A can‑do attitude, superb communication, and motivational skills.
• Strong collaboration and partner leadership skills.
• Entrepreneurial spirit with passion for new technologies and to drive innovation.
• Strategic and well‑rounded problem solver with attention to detail.

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.

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.

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