Senior Director, Strategy Partner to the Chief Commercial Officer

Job Description

The LEGO Group is looking for a passionate and experienced leader to partner with the LEGO Group Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). This is a critical strategic role based out of Billund or Copenhagen.

Bring your strategic and forward-thinking mentality and ability to navigate in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment! 

Core Responsibilities  

The Strategy Partner, CCO is a member of the Strategy & Transformation (S&T) leadership team and a people leader of 7 passionate strategy professionals located in different markets globally. You will work closely with the LEGO Group Chief Commercial Officer to drive her strategic agenda, including

• Constructively challenge and spar with the CCO and her leadership team to improve leadership decisions. 
• Translate the Commercial strategy into simple and clear communication for the CCO to share with her senior leadership team and broader organisation.
• Prepare materials on behalf of the CCO that go to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and Board of Directors (BoD) for input and decision-making. 
• Ensure the strategic initiatives progress and track well.
• Support the CCO to ensure her leadership team meetings are run well with clear pre-reads and log of actions.
• Lead and grow a high-performing team that serves as a key talent pipeline for the LEGO Group through recruiting, onboarding, and developing talent.

This role will require strong collaboration with the rest of the S&T LT and the other Strategy Partners, with the CCO LT and rest of the LEGO Group.

Play your part in our team succeeding  

The Strategy & Transformation team at the LEGO Group drives the Corporate Strategy development and the execution of major transformation initiatives.

We are uniquely positioned working closely with the senior leadership team on cross-functional programmes.

We are a diverse team of professionals with unique background in consulting and industry, acting as a talent hub.

Do you have what it takes? 

The successful candidate comes with a Masters’ degree in Economics, Business Administration/ Management, or a similar field combined with extensive professional experience. This includes  

• Substantial experience from a top-tier management consultancy.
• Additional experience in FMCG and/or Retail within the business development or strategy teams is a plus.
• Passion for driving commercial performance coupled with functional experience
• Leads with integrity, builds trust, and fosters high performing teams
• A proven track record of delivering critical strategic projects and initiatives; ability to easily shift between abstract strategic discussions and operational details to drive projects including scoping, analysis and recommendations. 
• A strategic mindset coupled with top-notch quantitative and analytical skills that allow you to extract logic, insights and meaningful conclusions from complex business problems.
• Excellent communication skills, ability to develop compelling presentations for the ELT and BoD.
• A ‘can do’ attitude to ensure things are acted upon in a fast-paced environment.

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 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.

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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