Senior Portfolio Manager

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Billund, Syddanmark, DNK
In-Office
Senior level
Kids + Family • Retail • Robotics
The Role
The Senior Portfolio Manager will own governance and reporting for a global project portfolio, ensuring strong planning and execution while collaborating with leadership and finance teams.
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Job Description

Are you motivated by bringing structure, transparency, and insight to a complex global project portfolio?

As Senior Portfolio Manager, you will own governance and reporting for a defined part of the global Workplace Solutions & Operations (WS&O) project portfolio. You will work closely with senior leaders, finance, and project teams to ensure strong portfolio planning, prioritization, and execution across sites. 

This location is based in Billund, Denmark, and no relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities
  • Own governance and reporting for a defined part of the global Workplace Solutions & Operations project portfolio, delivering high-quality weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting on progress, risks, capacity, and financial performance.

  • Drive project portfolio planning, prioritization, and follow-up across all WS&O-operated sites, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, funding boundaries, and delivery capacity.

  • Work in close collaboration with leadership team members, the Head of WS&O, senior stakeholders, business partners, and external partners as part of the annual planning cycle and ongoing performance reporting.

  • Act as the front door of WS&O, driving staffing, planning, and execution of the primary portfolio for greenfield and larger brownfield projects within the assigned geographical area.

  • Play a key role in the implementation of the WS&O strategy rollout by supporting portfolio structures, governance, and reporting.

  • Collaborate closely with peers in the PMO / Portfolio Management Office to ensure consistent standards, reporting, and ways of working across operations and engineering areas.

  • Continuously improve portfolio management practices, contributing to increased portfolio maturity across the PMO team.

Play Your Part in Our Team Succeeding

The portfolio function in WS&O is anchored in the WS&O Center of Excellence, serving as the global entity ensuring cross-site operations, standardization, and development.

As Senior Portfolio Manager, you act as a key link between leadership team members, engineering areas, and project and program teams—ensuring leaders have the insights needed to make informed decisions and supporting a unified portfolio approach.

Do You Have What It Takes?
  • Relevant degree in project management, business administration, engineering, or a closely related technical discipline that supports understanding of complex project portfolios and engineering environments.

  • Formal training or certification in project, program, or portfolio management is preferred.

  • Extensive experience managing or supporting large-scale project portfolios within an engineering, technical, or industrial environment.

  • Proven experience owning portfolio governance and reporting for a defined organizational area.

  • Strong experience collaborating with Finance on portfolio planning, investment tracking, and reporting.

  • Hands-on experience with portfolio, project, or performance management systems.

  • Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships in a global, matrixed organization.

  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into clear, decision-ready insights.

  • Structured, detail-oriented approach and comfort working with high-value and sensitive data.

  • Advanced English proficiency.

Nice-to-Have / Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working in a PMO or portfolio management team with split ownership across functions.

  • Background in large, production-based organizations with global portfolios and matrixed structures.

  • Experience with continuous improvement methodologies.

  • Strong facilitation, training, or change management capabilities.

  • Proactive, collaborative mindset and ability to thrive in small, high-impact teams.

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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

  • Relevant degree in project management, business administration, engineering, or related technical discipline
  • Formal training or certification in project, program, or portfolio management
  • Extensive experience managing large-scale project portfolios within an engineering or technical environment
  • Proven experience owning portfolio governance and reporting
  • Strong experience collaborating with Finance on planning and reporting
  • Hands-on experience with portfolio, project, or performance management systems
  • Strong analytical skills for translating complex data into insights

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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