Job Description
Bring value to life through finance leadership.
We are looking for a Senior Director of Finance Business Partnering to lead the finance agenda for our global Engineering & Workplace (E&W) organisation—a critical part of shaping the future of manufacturing at The LEGO Group.
In this role, you will combine strategic insight, financial leadership, and people leadership to ensure strong decision-making, disciplined investments, and clear value creation across a complex global portfolio.
This is an opportunity to influence strategic decisions at scale, work at the intersection of engineering, manufacturing and finance, and build and lead a high-impact finance team.
Core Responsibilities
Partner to shape strategic direction
- Act as a trusted partner to the SVP, E&W and the E&W leadership team
- Translate strategy into clear financial priorities, trade-offs, and actions
- Drive transparency on cost, capacity, and investment choices
- Support decisions on footprint, scalability, and long-term competitiveness
Lead investment and portfolio steering
- Oversee financial governance of a large, global capex portfolio, including manufacturing platform development, factory construction and expansion, and automation and digitalisation initiatives
- Ensure robust, fact-based business cases (NPV, ROI, scenarios)
- Strengthen prioritisation and resource allocation across competing initiatives
- Drive value realisation and post-investment follow-up
Drive performance and transparency
- Lead planning, forecasting, and performance management
- Create clarity on cost base and key drivers, project performance and delivery, and productivity and utilisation
- Deliver simple, actionable insights to senior leadership
Enable value through transformation
- Partner on key strategy initiatives on manufacturing Automation and Digitalisation and Product Innovation
- Ensure clear articulation and tracking of value creation
- Challenge assumptions to ensure technology investments deliver impact
- Promote a value-first mindset across engineering initiatives
Lead and develop a high-performing team
- Build and lead a strong finance business partnering function
- Develop capabilities in strategic partnering, investment analysis, and project finance
- Create clarity, accountability, and consistency across the team
- Foster a culture of curiosity, courage, and continuous improvement
Collaborate across the LEGO Group
- Work closely with Engineering, Manufacturing sites, Global Planning, Procurement, HR, Digital and Finance
- Ensure alignment between E&W KPIs and overall LEGO Group KPIs
- Contribute to key governance and decision forums
Play your part in our team succeeding
The E&W organisation of ~1.000 colleagues drive the development and optimisation of manufacturing platforms across more R&D areas (covering decoration and assembly, packing and packaging and logistics), leads construction of new factories globally and operate and maintain the factory sites. Automation and digitalisation are key enablers in this journey.
You will lead a team of 8 dedicated Finance Business Partners and act as a trusted partner to the SVP, E&W and E&W Leadership Team, helping balance today’s performance with tomorrow’s transformation.
You will play a key role in shaping the future of manufacturing at The LEGO Group —ensuring that investments in platforms, technologies, factories, automation and digitalisation translate into real, measurable impact.
Do you have what it takes?
Senior finance leadership experience in global manufacturing, engineering, or industrial environments
Proven track record in finance business partnering within complex, technical organisations
Strong experience with capex-heavy environments, large-scale projects (e.g. factory construction, technology/platform programs), and investment and portfolio management
Experience with automation & digitalisation, and/or transformation is advantageous
Strong financial acumen, connecting technical decisions to value
Effective communication with ability to challenge and influence senior stakeholders
Leads with integrity, builds trust, and fosters high performing teams
Challenges the status quo while balancing long-term and short-term goals
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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.
Just imagine building your dream career.
Then make it real.
Join the LEGO® team today.
Skills Required
- Senior finance leadership experience in global manufacturing, engineering, or industrial environments
- Proven track record in finance business partnering within complex, technical organisations
- Strong experience with capex-heavy environments, large-scale projects (factory construction, technology/platform programs), and investment and portfolio management
- Experience building and leading a finance business partnering team
- Strong financial acumen, including investment case development (NPV, ROI) and scenario analysis
- Effective communication with ability to challenge and influence senior stakeholders
- Experience with automation, digitalisation, or transformation initiatives
- Leads with integrity, builds trust, and fosters high-performing teams
- Ability to balance long-term strategy with short-term performance and drive value realisation
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.
The LEGO Group Insights
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!
