Sr. Quality Manager

the LEGO Group; Billund; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work model

Job summary

The LEGO Group in Billund, Denmark seeks a Senior Quality Manager in Development to safeguard quality across the product lifecycle. You will enable feasible, lovable products through collaboration, data-driven approaches and by developing and implementingQuality-in-Development systems and procedures with stakeholders.

Based in Billund with a hybrid work policy (average 3 days in the office), you will partner with Engineering and Quality teams to drive quality strategy, verification and

Qualifications

• Experience in Quality management, product or technology development.
• Cross-functional international work environment experience preferred.
• Ability to lead with a structured/systematic approach and engage teams.
• Strong collaboration, facilitation and communication skills.
• Ability to translate technical topics to quality mindset and business decisions.
• Experience with APQP and DFSS desirable.
• Experience activating tools like QFD, FMEA, SPC in trade-off discussions.

Responsibilities

• Define and enable streams to secure QA activities with sponsors and leads.
• Translate ideas into clearly defined targets and ensure QA throughout product life cycle.
• Build the quality strategy for verification and validation and drive target setting.
• Understand issues, opportunities and risk from a quality perspective.
• Support leadership on tradeoffs, priorities and resources for QA in development.
• Report and mitigate risks and critical project matters related to quality and feasibility.
• Engage QA capabilities across Engineering and Quality teams.

Skills

Quality management

Project management

Facilitation & communication

APQP

DFSS

QFD

FMEA

Statistical tools

Cross-functional collaboration

English proficiency

Job description

Core Responsibilities

Within Product & Technology Development processes you will…

• Define and enable project streams to secure relevant Quality Assurance (QA) activities in close collaboration with sponsors and project leads in Engineering and Quality teams
• Drive the translation of ideas & concept requirements into clearly defined targets and ensure QA activities to design the right quality output through the product life cycle
• Build the quality strategy for verification and validation while ensuring objectives and target setting for quality requirements and performance
• Actively seek holistic understanding of issues, opportunities and risk impact from a Quality point of view
• Support project and sponsor leadership teams on tradeoff decisions, priorities, capability building, allocation of resources related to quality assurance in development projects
• Report, intensify and mitigate risks and critical project matters related to quality and technical feasibility
• Engage and build Quality Assurance capabilities with colleagues across Engineering and Quality teams

Job Description

Within Product & Technology Development processes you will…

Play your part in our team succeeding

As Quality in Development Sr. Quality Manager you play an enabling role in launching feasible, lovable and viable products driven by collaboration and a data driven approach. You are safeguarding and assuring quality in the LEGO Group product portfolio throughout the product lifecycle. Furthermore, you are developing, adapting and implementing systems and procedures within Quality in Development and its main Product & Technology Development stakeholders

Do you have what it takes?

• 5+ years of experience from Manufacturing/Engineering quality or Project management and understand the dynamic of project development and implementation in such environment
• Experience from Quality management, Product Development and/or Technology development in cross-functional international work environment
• Driver/lead profile with a Structured/Systematic approach combined with motivational and engaging people skills
• Strong collaboration, facilitation and communication skills
• Ability to engage with both hardcore tech specialists and business leader levels, translating technical topics to quality mindset and business decisions
• APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) and DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) experience and preferably experience with project management
• Ability to activate statistical tools and advanced quality tools (QFD, FMEA, SPC, …) as both enablers to secure play experience and in tough trade-off discussions
• A positive mindset that fits the LEGO culture & leadership behaviours Collaborative skills, securing Motivation & Engagement while using your curiosity, bravery and focus to understand, engage and progress in the projects
• Fluent proficiency in English

The position is based in Billund, DK and relocation support is not offered for this role.

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.

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