Job Description
Ready to shape the strategy behind a resilient and future-ready EMEA supply chain?Just imagine shaping the supply chain strategy that keeps EMEA moving, connecting commercial demand with resilient operations and sustainable growth.
About the role
As our Head of Supply Chain Strategy & Development, EMEA, you'll shape and execute the regional strategy for the LEGO® Supply Chain team. You'll turn priorities into plans that strengthen service, agility, resilience and cost-to-serve.
This is an individual contributor role with broad regional scope. You'll guide the agenda through influence, expertise and cross-functional partnership, connecting regional needs with global objectives and working closely with senior leaders to move priorities into action.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years in supply chain strategy and planning/execution with at least 3 years in senior leadership
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a business-related field is a plus
- Worked across demand planning, supply planning, distribution and supply chain strategy and proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in complex, global environments.
- Strong strategic thinking and decision-making skills with experience balancing short term execution and long-term business goals.
- Operations background (supply planning, or demand planning, or factory experience, or BU Ops).
- Strong communication skills – can convey clearly complex problems and solutions to a diverse audience.
- Team player. Collaborative style, yet able to stand their ground.
- Resilience. Enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, sometimes under pressure.
- Strong analytical capabilities. Enjoys working with numbers and data.
- Innovative & Curious – able to find new ways of doing things, whilst seeking first to understand why things are as they are
What you'll build
- Shape the EMEA Supply Chain strategy and turn regional priorities into actionable plans.
- Drive transformation that strengthens service, resilience, agility and sustainable growth.
- Establish governance, performance reviews and decision-making frameworks that create clarity and accountability.
- Develop business cases and investment proposals for strategic supply chain opportunities.
- Orchestrate executive business reviews, leadership forums, board updates and key stakeholder engagements.
- Create strategy updates and transformation reports that support informed decisions.
If you've worked where supply chain strategy meets operational execution, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is connecting long-term direction with the operational choices that move the business forward.
Life on the team
Regional Supply Chain Operations connects commercial demand with operational execution. Together, we help markets maintain strong service while navigating cost, capacity and resource constraints. You'll collaborate openly, communicate complex topics clearly and stand behind your recommendations. You'll remain effective as priorities shift and seek to understand existing processes before finding better ways forward.
What success looks like
You'll create clear direction for EMEA Supply Chain and strengthen how priorities, investments and transformation are governed. Your impact will come through strategic ownership, sound judgement and the ability to bring teams together around a shared direction, rather than through direct people management.
Working closely with Global Supply Chain, Commercial, Procurement, Finance, Technology and Business Unit leaders, you'll keep regional execution connected to the wider ambitions of the LEGO Group.
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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.
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.
Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here
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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Skills Required
- 10+ years of experience in supply chain strategy and planning or execution
- At least 3 years of senior leadership experience
- Experience across demand planning, supply planning, distribution, and supply chain strategy
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in complex, global environments
- Strong strategic thinking and decision-making skills
- Experience balancing short-term execution with long-term business goals
- Operations background in supply planning, demand planning, factory operations, or business unit operations
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex problems and solutions
- Collaborative team-player approach with ability to challenge and defend recommendations
- Resilience and ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment under pressure
- Strong analytical capabilities and comfort working with numbers and data
- Innovative and curious mindset with ability to improve existing processes
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in a business-related field
The LEGO Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about The LEGO Group and has not been reviewed or approved by The LEGO Group.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally positioned as competitive across many roles and markets, with benchmarking against local markets and an expressed commitment to equal pay. Total compensation is often framed as stronger when considering the full package rather than base salary alone.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is described as notably expansive, with substantial fully paid time for primary and secondary caregivers and additional paid caregiver leave. Leave is also described as continuing to accrue other rewards such as vacation and bonus eligibility during the leave period.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Benefits are described as extending beyond core insurance into mental health and wellbeing support, including assistance programs, mindfulness resources, ergonomic setups, and fitness-related offerings. Brand-specific lifestyle perks such as sizable product discounts are highlighted as a meaningful part of the overall rewards experience.
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What We Do
We are the LEGO Group, the company behind the world’s most loved LEGO® bricks. Our brand name derived from the two Danish words Leg Godt, which mean “Play Well”. We’ve been sparking imaginations and inspiring the builders of tomorrow since 1932. This is our mission and what motivates our colleagues around the world every day. Today, we remain proudly family-owned with headquarters in Billund, Denmark. We have regional hubs in Boston, USA; London, UK; Shanghai, China; and Singapore, as well as 7 manufacturing facilities around the world. These places are home to 28,000+ colleagues in everything from design and engineering to digital technology and marketing. Together we learn, imagine and build – creating play experiences that are sold in over 130 countries worldwide. A purposeful and responsible global brand where creativity helps to inspire builders all around the world. Just imagine being part of that!
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