Senior Production Planner: Global Component Planning (SAP)

1025 LEGO Manufacturing Virginia Inc.; United States; Hybrid; USD 94,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Insurances (life and disability)

Headspace wellbeing app

Colleague discount

Bonus

Job summary

LEGO Group is seeking a Sr Production Planner to shape and optimize production planning at our growing LVA site. You will translate supply-chain dependencies into feasible, cost-conscious production plans and collaborate with production managers, engineers and global colleagues to ramp up the factory.

The role requires deep production planning expertise, SAP knowledge and strong data storytelling to drive delivery, continuous improvement and cross-site coordination.

Qualifications

• Strong track record in production planning or a similar role.
• Deep production‑planning expertise.
• SAP knowledge.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation capabilities.
• The ability to build a clear narrative from data and insights.
• Strong stakeholder‑management and collaboration capabilities.
• The ability to work with supply‑chain experts, production managers, global sites and technical engineers.
• Digital competency and an interest in strengthening and improving digital ways of working.
• A consistent focus on delivery, execution and continuous improvement and problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Execute short term scheduling and drive short to medium planning activities that serves as enablers for production planning processes.
• Contribute with improvement ideas and deployment on digitalization agenda.
• Balance service, feasibility and cost when making planning decisions.
• Identify and recommend improvements to existing planning practices and workflows.
• Use data and planning insights to support effective decision-making.
• Communicate complex supply‑chain dependencies and planning principles clearly.
• Collaborate with production managers, technical engineers, supply‑chain specialists and colleagues at other sites.
• Support other planners and contribute planning expertise across the wider organization.
• Help enable a smooth ramp‑up of the LVA factory.
• Strengthen end‑to‑end collaboration across the teams and touchpoints involved in component planning.

Skills

Production planning

Data interpretation

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Cross-site collaboration

Tools

SAP

Job description

LEGO Group is seeking a Sr Production Planner to shape and optimize production planning at our growing LVA site. You will translate supply-chain dependencies into feasible, cost-conscious production plans and collaborate with production managers, engineers and global colleagues to ramp up the factory.

The role requires deep production planning expertise, SAP knowledge and strong data storytelling to drive delivery, continuous improvement and cross-site coordination.