Head of Skills Family - Build & Sustainability (L&D)

LEGO; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The LEGO Group seeks a Head of Skills Family for Build & Sustainability to shape L&D strategies across global Operations. This role involves setting strategic direction, engaging with senior leaders, and ensuring alignment with business priorities. Join a dynamic team committed to fostering a skills-first culture.

Benefits

Enhanced paid leave options

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources and benefits

Generous colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in strategy, design, delivery, and evaluation of learning solutions.
• Proven ability to influence and consult senior leaders.
• Familiarity with agile ways of working.

Responsibilities

• Set and execute the strategic direction for the Skill Family.
• Act as a strategic Learning Partner to the Operations ELT area.
• Lead annual planning and prioritization of L&D initiatives.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Data-driven decision making

Communication

Education

Global L&D experience

Experience in sustainability or operations-related learning

Job description

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Head of Skills Family - Build & Sustainability (L&D)

Apply locations London Billund time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id 0000025225

Job Description

Are you interested in enabling a highly impactful skills agenda for one of LEGO’s most critical workforces? Bring your expertise in L&D to help shape the future of the LEGO Group's global Operations team!

Core Responsibilities

• Set and execute the strategic direction for the Skill Family with a focus on building future-fit capabilities in Operations and Sustainability, aligned to enterprise-wide L&D strategy.

• Act as a strategic Learning Partner to the Operations ELT area, engaging senior operational leaders to understand business needs and co-create impactful learning solutions.

• Lead annual planning and prioritization of L&D initiatives across the Skill Family, ensuring alignment with operational transformation agendas and global business priorities.

• Own and evolve the Skill Family’s taxonomy and curriculum, with a sharp focus on driving business impact in operational contexts (e.g., manufacturing, supply chain, engineering).

• Partner with LEGO U Programme team and other L&D teams to deliver learning solutions through agile planning cycles, with accountability for quality, relevance, and effectiveness.

• Shape and deliver engagement and communication strategies for the ELT area, ensuring visibility of learning impact and driving a strong learning culture across Operations.

• Provide thought leadership in skills-based learning and help embed a skills-first mindset in key operational areas.

• Build trusted relationships with senior operational stakeholders and cross-functional partners to ensure high relevance and uptake of learning interventions.

• Lead a team.

Play your part in the team succeeding!

The Skills & Learning team is driving the LEGO Group’s transformation into a future-ready, skills-based organization. We partner with business leaders to identify the most critical capabilities and ensure all colleagues have access to the skills they need to grow, adapt, and succeed.

As Head of Skill Family Build & Sustainability, you will play a central role in enabling the skills agenda across our global Operations teams — from manufacturing and supply chain to engineering and sustainability. You’ll shape how we build and scale learning interventions that drive performance, support transformation, and bring our sustainability ambitions to life.

Do you have what it takes?

• Global L&D experience, including strategy, design, delivery, and evaluation of learning solutions

• Strong strategic thinking and business acumen, with the ability to align learning strategy to enterprise goals

• Deep understanding of skills-based organizations and experience developing skills taxonomies

• Proven ability to influence and consult senior leaders (L2/L3), acting as a trusted advisor

• Experience working in or closely with Operations (e.g., manufacturing, supply chain, logistics), with strong contextual understanding of operational environments

• Familiarity with agile ways of working and iterative planning

• Data-driven decision-maker with strong analytical capabilities

• Exceptional communication, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement skills

• Prior experience in a large global organization with matrixed stakeholder groups desirable

• Experience working in sustainability or operations-related learning domains preferred

• Strong change leadership and resilience in dynamic environments

• Background in partnering with external learning vendors and platforms desirable

• Subject to individual position evaluation by Global Rewards• Evaluated based on business size, complexity, team size, etc.• Lead a team

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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.

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 seeksto 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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About Us

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, andhaving fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in c ontinuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow ” .