Construction Project Manager

1088 LEGO Brand Retail Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Bonus program

Headspace app access

Colleague discount

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

The LEGO Group is seeking a Construction and Project Management professional to lead store build outs, remodels, and refurbishments across North America from Boston, MA. You will coordinate budgets, timelines, and cross-functional communication with internal teams and external partners.

You will drive global alignment, manage vendors, and contribute to process improvements while supporting the hybrid work model and LEGO’s workplace benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience in the delivery of retail construction, project management, or business development.
• Ability to prioritize multiple projects/tasks at one time.
• Global experience or work for an international company.
• Highly effective negotiation skills, good social skills and a strong collaborator.
• Track record of working with top level partners, including presentation skills and professional behavior.
• Ability to understand drawings/blueprints, as-built drawings and shop drawings.
• Willingness to travel (on average once per month).
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Project); CAD/PDF experience.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate day to day processes of delivering, streamlining, efficiency and cost control of store build outs, remodels and refurbishments across North America.
• Lead global construction meetings and align with internal partners for visibility of all projects.
• Own budget planning, tracking and recap; ensure timely status updates and issue escalation.
• Drive supplier/vendor relationships and contract negotiations to meet timelines and budgets.

Skills

Retail construction

Project management

Budget management

Vendor coordination

Stakeholder communication

Travel readiness

Tools

Microsoft Project

CAD

Excel

Job description

Job Description

At the LEGO Group, we are passionate about inspiring creativity and learning through play. Join our Construction and Project Management team and bring your ability to think strategically, adapt quickly, and respond to the ever-changing needs of the retail business!

Core Responsibilities

• 50% Project Management

  Coordinate day to day processes of delivering, streamlining, efficiency and cost control of store build outs, remodels and refurbishments primarily across North America. Ensures teams ownership of global construction meetings; facilitating and leading the content of agenda points through meeting notes, action items and follow-up information as needed. Primary contact for USA organization between external Project Managers and LEGO internal partners for complete visibility of all projects. Drives alignment with LEGO Retail Team to insure smooth move between Real Estate and Store Development and Operations. Coordinate contribution of information to internal New Store SharePoint site; ensuring standard process and simplicity. Responsible for timely budget tracking, reconciliation and recap, for current/up to date status of all Global projects; bringing up concerns/issues immediately. Ownership in Budget planning, tracking and recap Meetings with Partners and respective Retail Controllers. Lead external vendors to meet timelines and achievement of LBR store projects including new stores, refits, relocations and remodels. Supports where needed processes related to external maintenance partners.

• 30% Partner and Internal Department Management and Collaboration

  Active Participation in Global Retail cross function/alignment meetings. Drives AAR yearly, analyzing and capturing of historical data and trends to promote competitive advantage in future years. Active collaboration with contributed expertise regarding in-store refurbishments and remodels, chipping in to future planning. Drives continuous alignment of processes across markets. Leads all aspects of the coordination and process of Global incoming and outgoing information. Responsible for all information with/from Global Finance for accurate cost control and budget management. Lead international fixtures’ logistics, planning and troubleshooting. Primary contact with Global Procurement, driving contract negotiation and exchange.

• 10% Vendor Management

  Driver of establishing new relationships within the USA vendor portfolio, while Maintaining the strength of current vendor relationships. Supporting owner of fixture inventory for USA Store Development; ensuring routine tracking, reconciliation and recaps as necessary. Owner of the planning, coordination and communication with centralized Warehouse. Leads all aspects of the coordination of furnished fixture orders, shipping, flow and delivery, for new stores, remodels and projects. Ownership of centralized catalog archive of all Store Construction retail fixtures; collect, update and organize shop drawings, specs and related material. Responsible for continually evaluating the external relationship and processes as set currently; empowered to challenge details, in an effort to streamline, improve and gain insight.

• 10% aob Evaluation, feedback, and accountability tracking using measurable values and behavior

  1:1 meetings with internal and external partners to share/provide feedback, constructive criticism and value adding benefit. Meetings with Senior Director to supervise own performance and teams performance. Participation on Global team meetings and agendas. Play your part in our team succeeding!

Qualifications

• Experience in the delivery of retail construction, project management, or business development industry.
• Proven track record of being able to prioritize multiple projects/tasks at one time.
• Global experience or work for an international company.
• Highly effective negotiation skills, good social skills and a strong collaborator.
• Track record of working with top level partners, including level of presentation skills and professional behavior.
• Ability to understand drawings/blueprints, as-built drawings and shop drawings.
• Must be able to learn, understand and grasp concept design and execution of concept.
• Excellent PC experience requiring Microsoft Office Windows, Excel, Word, and Microsoft Project; experience working with PDF and CAD files.
• Willingness to travel (on average once per month).

Compensation and Benefits

• The salary for this position has a range of $107,885.00 - $161,827.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints.
• The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law.
• The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.
• 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 you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based.
• 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.

Equal Opportunity and Diversity

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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are.

Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

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. We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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