Sr. Production Planner (Component Planning)

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

Job Description Are you ready to shape production planning at a growing site? Join AMS Component Planning and help ensure that components are delivered at the right time, at the right quality and in the most cost-efficient way. As our new Sr Production Planner, you will bring strong planning expertise to a global manufacturing environment. You will help translate supply-chain dependencies and planning principles into effective plans, while balancing service, feasibility and cost. This is an opportunity to contribute to the ramp‑up of the LVA factory, strengthen ways of working and collaborate with colleagues across functions and global sites.

Core 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.

Requirements

• A strong track record in production planning or a similar role.
• Deep production‑planning expertise.
• SAP technical 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.

What success looks like

During your first year, you will be expected to operate confidently as a senior planning professional, manage workflows with minimal assistance and provide effective support to other planners and sites. You will contribute to reliable plan execution while continuing to improve planning practices, stakeholder communication, storytelling and digital capabilities.

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $93,989.00 - $140,983.00 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. 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.

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 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.

Company Culture

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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.

Family Support

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.

Play Day & Mission

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".

Children’s Rights

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe.

Child Safeguarding

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

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Drug Screening

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.

Online Application Accessibility Statement

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Founder Story

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".