Director - PLM Capabilities, Product Leader

Job Description

Are you ready to oversee and drive the development of the LEGO Groups’ digital backbone for product development (PLM)?
We have a rare opportunity to work at the heart of the LEGO Group, building and architecting the foundational capabilities to design, develop, manufacture and launch new products. Join us and demonstrate your digital product leadership to shape the future of our Play Experience Lifecycle Management (PELM) at The LEGO Group.

We are seeking a top-tier professional with a wealth of experience. The ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of PLM systems and vendors, in different consumer goods categories. This role will bridge between our Product Marketing and Development organization (PMD) and our Digital Organization leading a team of Senior Product Mangers. We are seeking someone who is knowledgeable about modern approaches to federated PLM ecosystems and digital threads. The role is essential to our future and will be working closely with our Head of Global PELM Transformation to build the systems that we shall use for many years to come. We aim to provide richer play experiences to our customers built upon physical, hybrid and digital elements.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead and Mentor:

Guide a new team of three platform-focused senior product managers across 3 primary teams covering our Masterdata, Bill of Materials (BOM) and Electronic Design and Engineering Change Management (ECM) capabilities. Support their development, lead performance, and champion a culture that encourages pro-active up-skilling, fast discovery, and a bias to experimentation, delivery and continuous improvement,

• Product Coaching:

Empower product managers to lead teams in discovering, developing, and launching industry-leading digital solutions and features. Ensure continuity of the existing physical product portfolio while unlocking growth in emerging physical and digital product lines.

• Vision and Strategy:

Co-develop digital solutions, vision and strategy (in partnership with the Head of the Global PELM Transformation and other senior program leaders) and align with business goals, technology architecture, address internal needs across divisions, and incorporate market analysis and best industry practices. Facilitate scaling across territories and customization for our physical product portfolio, manufacturing plants, and distribution centres.

• Collaboration:

Partner with software engineering, digital design, and business leaders to accelerate digital transformation. Align roles, responsibilities, and strategic roadmaps to drive priorities and transformation, and encourage high velocity and "flow’ in the teams.

• Advocacy:

Promote the upgrade of our PLM ecosystem within the business. Champion the need for a standardized, ontology-inspired architectural foundation and supporting ‘digital thread’ that allows customization without accruing technical debt.

• Decision Making:

Input to evaluation of 'build versus buy' decisions, balancing vendor interoperability, talent availability, and concerns about enterprise package lock-ins.

• Leadership Contribution:

Actively contribute to the product leadership team by shaping the organization, building capabilities, removing obstacles, and fostering a collaborative environment.

Play your part in our team succeeding

This role is integral to our global Digital Product organization sitting within Innovation Engagement team (and will work directly alongside 2 other Product Leaders focusing on enabling the Physical Product Development functions at the LEGO Group). You will also work across our extended digital ecosystem—collaborating with digital product colleagues working with Product Design, Engineering, Manufacturing, Retail, and more—to ensure the full LEGO product lifecycle is considered and represented in our roadmap. Reporting to the Head of Product, and working closely with the Head of PLM Transformation, you'll balance hands-on leadership with strategic oversight to accelerate the development of the future ecosystem, always focusing on data and the cross-business lifecycle experience.

This new Product Leader role is pivotal to ensuring our next generation PLM systems can handle all the complexities and variables that come with multiple factories, different market needs and new play experiences that bridge physical and digital worlds and infuse traditional sets with electronic enabled interactive play.

Do you have what it takes?

• Proven experience in PLM and or Consumer Products Supply Chain sectors.

• Proven leadership in product management and agile development, with a track record of guiding teams through discovery, launch, and performance improvement.

• Ability to build and lead high-performing teams, inspiring and empowering them to achieve shared goals.

• Experience in driving ground-breaking change, enhancing collaboration between teams, and anticipating the organisational change impact before it becomes an issue

• Excellent communication skills, capable of articulating problems and solutions clearly.

• Strong networking and partner leadership skills

• Experience of working in a Matrix organisation

• Understanding of micro-electronics and/or Internet of Things engineering and manufacturing processes

• Knowledge of Circular PLM systems and how Sustainability data can be incorporated into the Flow of Goods

• Experience of ECM across different factory set-ups, incorporating more human-supported assembly lines and heavily automated robotic plants.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.

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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