Senior Vice President, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Technology

Lego Group; Denmark; Hybrid; DKK 2,000,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

The LEGO Group seeks a senior technology leader to define and drive the enterprise technology agenda across manufacturing, supply chain, and product engineering. You will align technology strategy with business priorities, delivering scalable digital capabilities and measurable value.

This role partners with Operations, Digital Technology and Product Engineering to shape the future of our global manufacturing network.

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading enterprise-scale digital transformation across manufacturing, supply chain, operations, or product engineering.
• Experience leading large, complex technology organizations through transformation and operating model evolution.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing technologies, supply chain platforms, data and analytics, automation, and emerging digital technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large investment portfolios and connect technology decisions to business outcomes.
• Exceptional executive stakeholder management and communication to align diverse teams around a shared vision.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the technology strategy for manufacturing, supply chain, and product engineering, aligned with enterprise priorities.
• Accelerate adoption of emerging technologies to improve productivity, quality, decision-making, and resilience.
• Drive technology integration across value chain to enable scalable and efficient ways of working.
• Build and lead a high-performing technology organization with the right capabilities and culture.
• Oversee delivery of strategic digital initiatives with governance, discipline, and measurable benefits.
• Own major technology investments, portfolios, and capability decisions with clear trade-offs and value realization.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration to strengthen architectural alignment and accountability for outcomes.
• Shape the technology agenda as a senior leader influencing executives across Operations, Digital Technology, and Product Engineering.
• Support a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning to fuel innovation.

Skills

Executive leadership

Digital transformation

Stakeholder management

Strategic vision

Technology portfolio management

Enterprise-scale leadership

Education

Master's degree

Senior leadership experience (equivalent)

Tools

IoT platforms

Advanced analytics

Automation technologies

Job description

Job Description

What if technology could transform how the enterprise creates value?

About the Role

We are seeking a strategic and visionary technology leader to define and lead the enterprise technology agenda across manufacturing, supply chain, and product engineering. This executive will connect enterprise technology strategy, digital transformation, data, manufacturing, and supply chain capabilities to deliver business impact at scale.

Required Qualifications

• Proven track record leading enterprise-scale digital transformation across manufacturing, supply chain, operations, or product engineering environments.
• Experience leading large, complex technology organizations through transformation, capability building, and operating model evolution.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing technologies, supply chain platforms, data and analytics, automation, and emerging digital technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to manage large investment portfolios, prioritize strategic trade-offs, and connect technology decisions to measurable business outcomes.
• Exceptional executive stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to align diverse teams around a common technology vision and agenda.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Engineering, Technology, Business, Supply Chain, or a related field preferred.
• Equivalent senior enterprise leadership experience will also be considered.

What You’ll Build

Leadership & Strategy

Define and execute the technology strategy for manufacturing, supply chain, and product engineering, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and long-term business objectives.

Innovation & Technology

Accelerate adoption of emerging technologies, including IoT, AI, automation, advanced analytics, and digital platforms to improve productivity, quality, decision-making, and operational resilience.

End-to-End Value Chain Integration

Drive technology integration across manufacturing, supply chain, product engineering, and commercial interfaces to enable consistent, scalable, and efficient ways of working.

Team & Capability Leadership

Build and lead a high-performing technology organization, developing the talent, capabilities, culture, and operating model required to deliver sustained transformation.

Execution & Delivery

Oversee the delivery of strategic digital initiatives, ensuring strong governance, disciplined execution, achievement of commitments, and realization of business benefits.

Portfolio & Investment Accountability

Own and optimize major technology investments, portfolios, and capability decisions, ensuring effective prioritization, transparency in trade-offs, and measurable value creation.

Stakeholder Collaboration

Foster strong cross-functional and global collaboration across Operations, Digital Technology, and enterprise stakeholders to strengthen architectural alignment, technology coherence, and shared accountability for outcomes.

Life on the Team

As a member of the senior leadership team, you will help shape both the technology agenda and the future of the enterprise.

This is a highly visible role with the opportunity to influence strategic decisions, drive large-scale transformation, and partner with executives across Operations, Digital Technology, and Product Engineering.

Our leaders are empowered to think boldly, challenge conventional approaches, and create lasting impact.

We foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning, where diverse perspectives are valued and innovation is encouraged.

Together, we are building the capabilities, platforms, and ways of working that will define the next generation of manufacturing and supply chain excellence.

What Success Looks Like

The SVP, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Technology defines and leads the enterprise technology agenda across manufacturing, supply chain, and product engineering.

Success in this role means translating business strategy into scalable digital capabilities that enhance operational efficiency, quality, resilience, and measurable business value.

This leader partners closely across Operations and Digital Technology to drive architectural consistency, prioritize strategic investments, accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies, and deliver transformation outcomes at scale.

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.

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.

Our Founder Story

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”.