Senior Technical Project Manager, Advanced Develorpment

the LEGO Group; Greater London; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life & Disability Insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus program

Hybrid work policy

Job summary

The LEGO Group in Greater London is seeking an experienced hardware technology project manager to join the Hardware Technology Project Office. You will coordinate software and hardware development across the full lifecycle, partnering with engineering, manufacturing and external partners to deliver innovative technology at scale.

You will lead multi‑disciplinary teams, manage budgets and changes, and present complex decisions to senior stakeholders to drive timely business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands‑on experience in consumer electronics engineering project management and delivery in robotics/mechatronics, mechanical, electronics, systems, or a closely related field.
• 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.
• Experience leading a multi‑functional team and people across cross‑organisational units such as engineering, quality, procurement, and manufacturing.
• 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 platforms for the full life cycle with a focus on reusability and manufacturability.
• Coordinate with strategic development partners to bring emerging technologies into products shaping the future of play.
• Lead projects to deliver within time, cost, quality and volume.
• Ensure progress, timely decisions, planned review meetings, managed dependencies, and budget adherence.
• Present complex technical decisions clearly to senior stakeholders to enable timely business decisions.
• Drive consensus among multifunctional teams and escalate when needed to SteerCo or Sponsor.
• Establish and maintain a well‑functioning multi‑discipline team.
• Plan tasks with workstream leads and coordinate across workstreams and activities.
• Manage change control and align significant changes with collaborators.
• Identify, track and mitigate project risks.

Skills

Project management

Cross‑functional leadership

Engineering leadership

Robotics & mechatronics

Communication

Problem solving

Strategic thinking

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.
• 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.

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