Senior Director, Head of Digital Product – Global Supply Chain Operations

Job Description

Are you ready to dive into the exciting world of digital innovation within Global Supply Chain Operations at the LEGO Group?

Join our vibrant team, where your leadership will not only shape groundbreaking product strategies but also craft unforgettable user experiences that make waves across the globe!

The position will be based in Billund, DK or London, UK and relocation support is not offered.

Core Responsibilities

• Create and deliver the overall vision and digital product strategy, ensuring alignment with global business objectives and revenue goals.
• Develop and champion annual portfolio objectives and key results (OKRs), collaborating with product teams to define quarterly OKRs aimed at achieving strategic outcomes.
• Champion the voice of the user by leveraging user insights and establishing research methods to understand user motivators, needs, and pain points.
• Oversee the UX strategy across the digital product portfolio, ensuring a seamless and engaging user experience while promoting digital product methodologies to stakeholders.
• Ensure enterprise end-to-end product strategies that consider operating realities, business initiatives, and priorities, collaborating cross-functionally with LEGO® Supply Chain and Procurement teams.
• Communicate clearly and convincingly with stakeholders, building trust in the vision while providing clarity on risks and the roadmap ahead.
• Be a leader and advocate for digital supply chain and procurement transformation, fostering collaboration and alignment across all functions, while leveraging external learnings, best practices and data analytics to inform product decisions and strategies.
• Continue building a high-performance team that meets the business needs of the future, and fits with the LEGO Group’s culture and values.

Play your part in our team succeeding

This role is responsible for defining and delivering global digital product vision and strategies for products for our LEGO® Supply Chain and Procurement teams, and ensuring coherence with products in other business functions. You will work closely with business, technology, and design leaders to create the right culture to enable our product teams to thrive – empowering them by giving them challenging problems to solve and working with business stakeholders to create priorities and align on success measures (OKRs).

As People leader, you will lead the Supply Chain Product Management team consisting of 9 dedicated and highly skilled colleagues based in London and Billund. In the team, there is a strong focus on continuous improvement, while promoting and living our values, recognizing everyone’s potential to deliver unique experiences for the LEGO Group across the physical and digital world.

Do You Have What It Takes

• 10+ years of experience in Digital Product Management and Digital Transformation with a strong leadership background.
• Deep understanding of Supply Chain and Procurement business domains in global manufacturing organisations.
• Expertise in developing and executing strategic plans and OKRs.
• Ability to assess product portfolios and identify optimization and innovation opportunities.
• A mindset geared towards experimentation and continuous improvement.
• Deep understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies.
• Experience in leading change management initiatives related to digital transformation.
• Strong collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills to promote digital transformation and engage stakeholders.
• Strong leadership capabilities to inspire and manage diverse teams effectively.
• Passion for building high-performance teams that align with organizational culture and values.
• Experience in talent management, including hiring, development, and succession planning.
• Commitment to mentoring and developing talent within the team.
• Demonstrated financial acumen in budgeting and resource allocation.

Please expect a delay in the recruitment process due to the Christmas holidays.

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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.