Production Planning & Control Director

Job Description

Are you ready to lead, innovate, and make an impact? In this role, you’ll guide a talented planning team, optimize production and inventory, and champion processes that drive efficiency and continuous improvement!

Core Responsibilities

The overall purpose of this role is to drive production planning and the local consolidation processes to underpin service level targets, improve finished-goods inventory health, and enable efficient manufacturing.

More specifically, in this role you will:

• Lead and motivate a team of planning professionals by providing coaching; fostering inclusivity and innovative thinking; and driving high-performance through clear expectations, empowerment, and constructive feedback.
• Drive strong execution and continuous improvement in the production planning area, covering finished goods and pre-pack responsibilities.
• Lead the local consolidation process to drive the factory’s current and future success.  Create a vision that future proofs this framework – finding internal inspiration, leveraging best-in-class practices, and championing effective change management. 
• Support efficient operations by developing robust practices for production sequencing, batch sizes, and planning processes.
• Optimize production mix to support customer demand, balancing line constraints, available resources, and commercial priorities.
• Establish collaborative relationships with local and global partners. Create ways of working built on trust, openness, and with a One LEGO® Team approach.
• Ensure production planning aligns with key strategic business objectives, underpinning both the company's short- and long-term goals.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The production planning department’s mission is to deliver best-in-industry in-stock levels through responsiveness and supporting healthy inventory management, while effectively balancing factory efficiency.

The Production Planning and Control Director is the Kladno factory lead for finished goods and pre-pack production planning. This position requires strong leadership; strategic and tactical thinking; and collaboration and analytical skills. Focus on continuous improvement is expected to support the growing business and elevate the team’s capabilities so it can continue to play a key role in the company’s success.

Do you have what it takes?

• Deep operational expertise with significant experience in production and/or supply planning within complex, matrixed environments.
• Proven leadership capability with a consistent record of developing high-performing, diverse, and inclusive teams.
• Clear, effective communicator (English required; Czech a plus) with strong interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Analytical and thorough, with strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Abillity to translate data into actionable insights.
• Proven change management capability; adaptable, curious, and comfortable navigating ambiguity.

What would be an advantage:

• Experience working on large transformational projects.
• Experience working with SAP, Kinaxis.
• Experience working in CPG.

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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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