Product Leader (Director)

Job Description

Bring your outstanding leadership and Product Management expertise to help the LEGO Group accelerating our digital transformation within manufacturing and engineering, providing awesome solutions in our Elements & Moulding processes, so we can continue inspiring and developing the builders of tomorrow!

NOTE: This role is based in Billund, Denmark, and no relocation support is offered.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead product teams through change, helping them retain focus through value creation and continuous deliverables.
• As people leader - recruit, develop and support the growth of a dedicated, diverse and inclusive team of product managers (6-8 direct reports).
• Empower product teams in user groups define quarterly objectives and key results (OKRs) that align with strategic priorities, providing deeper context, and access to key team members across the LEGO Group leading to product execution.
• As Product Leader responsible for ensuring Product teams have clarity and understands the key problems they need to solve.
• Develop medium to long-term high-level vision and strategy for own area (Roadmap and ambitions) and support the development of annual portfolio objectives and key results to ensure focus on critical priorities across user group.
• Collaborate with insight, foresight and UX research teams to develop a deeper understanding of market / tech trends, manufacturing challenges and opportunities, identifying further needs for product discovery that improve experience and productivity for our employees.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Product Management in Manufacturing & Engineering is anchored in Operations Engineering & Workplace working in close collaboration with Product Management in GSCO & Procurement which together is accountable for the full product deliveries across Operations.

As Product Leader you will be reporting to Head of Products Manufacturing but also joining cross functional leadership teams relevant for specific capabilities and domain knowledge – as example Global Moulding Wheel and L3 Leaderships Teams.

Digital Product teams in Moulding and E&Q are involved in development of new technologies and operational solutions – both as novelties from product development and improvements from production to increase safety, quality or productivity. Functional areas cover Additive Manufacturing, Mould Supply and Manufacturing, Moulding Processes and Global Maintenance e.g. we digitally enable the design and production of our amazing LEGO bricks. Our colleague and stakeholder landscape is very diverse – from senior management through technical platform owners to engineers and operators with deep functional expertise.

Automation and Digitalization of the Shopfloor, New Play Experiences and Sustainability are examples of strategic focus areas within Moulding and Engineering & Quality – very high ambitions and commitments to be delivered. Business led – digitally enabled.

The Product Leader is responsible for a team of 6-8 product managers, supporting their development, managing performance, and creating the right culture to empower them and provide psychological safety to fail and learn. The Product Leader is key to enabling people to achieve their potential and improving product management capability across the LEGO Group.

Do you have what it takes?

Experience

• Demonstrable experience as a Product Leader where you have directly implemented product solutions / digital applications and have enhanced the end user experience
• Proven track record in building and leading hard-working product teams, inspiring and empowering them to work towards common goals
• Experience leading highly skilled employees
• Experience in managing complex projects, remaining agile in an ever-changing environment 
   

Key Functional Skills

• A strong networker with strong partner leadership skills.
• A great communicator and ability to clearly articulate the problem and proposed solution
• Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams from tech, design and business
• An enthusiastic self-starter who can handle projects autonomously, with the ability to toggle between attending to detail and steering company strategy
• Stakeholder management capability with strong business acumen and the ability to work cross-functionally and report back to multiple leaders across the business
• Storytelling and evangelism
• Technically curious, with a good understanding of software development practices and web/mobile technologies
• Able to make and take ownership for decisions at a fast pace
• Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrixed organisation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Product Leadership Skills

• A consistent record of leading cross-functional agile teams through the full product life cycle
• Ability to quickly gain the confidence of the business and colleagues through good communication and influencing skills and acting as an advocate of the Product Management team both externally and internally
• Ensure effective leadership of the team; maintaining a continuous learning environment, setting clear objectives to ensure there is clarity on what needs to be achieved for any given work
• Offer a supportive coaching style, proactively encouraging personal and professional development and achievement across the product team

Individual Skills

• Growth and learning mentality, collaborator, and great teammate
• Great communication skills, with confidence in engaging effectively with business clients
• Seasoned problem solver with ability to handle and own the team to push the solution and progress
• Curiosity, creativity and flexibility; be ready to take initiative and get into the details
• Functional experience within engineering and “shopfloor” experience

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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.

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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