Senior Director, Global Demand Planning

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2 Locations
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212K-318K Annually
Senior level
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The Role
Leads the LEGO Group’s global demand planning capability across regions, channels, and planning horizons. Owns the demand planning vision, operating model, governance, standards, performance measures, and transformation roadmap. Aligns Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Technology, and regional stakeholders around planning outcomes. Builds organizational capability, strengthens forecasting performance, establishes global consistency, and leads adoption of technology-enabled planning practices.
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Job Description

Just imagine shaping a simpler, more connected way to plan demand, with clear ownership, trusted planning outputs and stronger connections between commercial ambition and operational execution. 


About the role 

As our Senior Director, Global Demand Planning, you'll own the LEGO® demand planning capability across regions, channels and planning horizons. You'll define the future operating model, governance and capability roadmap. Working across the LEGO Group, you'll connect commercial decisions with operational execution and shape a global function at a pivotal stage of transformation. 


Required Qualifications 

  • Led demand planning and forecasting across multiple markets or business units. 
  • Designed planning operating models, processes and governance frameworks. 
  • Delivered planning transformation through technology-enabled change. 
  • Shaped enterprise-level decisions using clear insights and sound judgement. 
  • Aligned cross-functional stakeholders around shared priorities and planning outcomes. 
  • Built and led teams, strengthening planning capabilities across an organization. 

Preferred Qualifications 

  • Used advanced planning platforms, artificial intelligence-enabled forecasting or demand-sensing tools. 
  • Worked across supply planning, inventory, customer planning or order management. 
  • Applied commercial and financial insight to planning decisions. 
  • Led organizational change and communicated recommendations to executive stakeholders. 

What you'll build 

  • Set the global Demand Planning vision, operating model, standards and decision principles, aligning leaders around a clear roadmap and decision rights. 
  • Establish performance baselines and improvement priorities for forecast accuracy, bias, transparency and planner effectiveness. 
  • Strengthen global governance, planning standards and cross-functional operating rhythms, enabling business-unit and market group teams to deliver strong planning outcomes. 
  • Lead the business direction and implementation of a major, in-flight transformation to simplify and strengthen how we plan demand globally. 
  • Create global consistency while preserving the market and channel insight needed for strong commercial and operational planning decisions. 
  • Build a connected team with clear objectives, accountability and opportunities to grow. 

If you've created a common planning language, built trust between Commercial and Operations, and turned transformation work into sustained routines, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is making difficult trade-offs clear while delivering measurable outcomes. 


Life on the team 

You'll join Global Commercial Operations, which connects commercial ambition with operational execution. The team strengthens demand planning, order management and inventory deployment across the LEGO Group. You'll work within one global leadership community, using transparent priorities, clear accountability and direct discussion of trade-offs. Enterprise leadership, sound decision-making and cross-functional influence will help you align stakeholders. Your team leadership will build capability and develop strong leaders.  


What success looks like 

Over the next 12 months, you'll refine the global Demand Planning operating model and leadership accountabilities. You'll determine what’s needed to scale and strengthen performance measures and improvement routines. You'll build adoption across regions, channels and planning horizons, partnering closely with global, regional, and business-unit leaders across Commercial, Operations, Supply Chain, Product Marketing and Development, Finance, Digital, Data, Technology, Commercial Operations Performance and Global Order Management. 


Additional details on this position:    

  • This role can be based in either our London Hub or Boston Hub locations. 
  • No relocation assistance will be provided for this position.     

Compensation

If based at our Boston Hub, the salary for this position has a range of $212,033.00 - $318,049.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.


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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

  • Leadership of demand planning and forecasting across multiple markets or business units
  • Experience designing planning operating models, processes, and governance frameworks
  • Experience delivering planning transformation through technology-enabled change
  • Ability to shape enterprise-level decisions using clear insights and sound judgment
  • Ability to align cross-functional stakeholders around shared priorities and planning outcomes
  • Experience building and leading teams and strengthening organizational planning capabilities
  • Experience using advanced planning platforms, AI-enabled forecasting, or demand-sensing tools
  • Experience across supply planning, inventory, customer planning, or order management
  • Experience applying commercial and financial insight to planning decisions
  • Experience leading organizational change and communicating recommendations to executive stakeholders

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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The Company
HQ: Billund
19,827 Employees
Year Founded: 1932

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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