Senior Project Leader

Posted 8 Days Ago
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House, NM
In-Office
Senior level
Kids + Family • Retail • Robotics
The Role
Lead complex projects and innovation initiatives while fostering high-performing teams and managing change in a dynamic environment, primarily within the LEGO ecosystem.
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Job Description

Do you thrive in ambiguity, love driving change, and want to shape the future of play? 
Then get your application ready, we’re looking for you! 

At Creative Play Lab, we exist to imagine and build radically new LEGO® experiences that delight the builders of tomorrow and inspire transformation across The LEGO Group. Our innovation spans far and wide—from groundbreaking play concepts and new business models to bold go-to-market strategies and portfolio shifts that can redefine the play industry. 

As a Project Leader, you are the critical link between visionary ideas and real-world impact. You’ll ensure that pioneering innovations don’t just stay in the lab—they successfully integrate into the full value chain and scale across the business. Through exceptional project leadership and change management, you’ll prepare the organization for seamless adoption, enabling new experiences to reach the market and deliver on their promise to inspire and delight. 

This is more than a project management role—it’s about connecting creativity with execution, aligning diverse stakeholders, and making transformation tangible across the LEGO ecosystem. 

Responsibilities 

  • Lead Complex Projects: Drive large-scale initiatives across physical products both with and without tech, digital experiences, and service solutions, including integrated 360° campaign development. 

  • Apply Advanced Project Leadership: Utilize your expertise in traditional project management, Agile methodologies, and facilitation to deliver innovative solutions while ensuring alignment with established innovation processes. 

  • Foster High-Performing Teams: Demonstrate strong people insight and team dynamics awareness, taking proactive steps to address performance challenges and lead informally when needed. 

  • Leverage LEGO Operating Models: Leverage deep knowledge of the LEGO® Operating Model to influence and develop adjacent models that support evolving business needs. 

  • Champion Change: Act as a catalyst for transformation beyond CPL, balancing a strong strategic point of view with exceptional stakeholder management and people leadership skills. 

  • Engage Senior Stakeholders: Negotiate effectively with senior leaders across multiple areas to secure alignment and resources for successful delivery. 

  • Navigate Global Complexity: Thrive in a globally distributed team environment and lead confidently in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world. 

Requirements 

  • 5–7 years of project and/or people leadership experience in complex innovation environments, with a proven ability to apply a solid project management toolbox and inspire teams to thrive and perform.  

  • End-to-End Expertise: Strong understanding of the full value chain for both physical, technical and digital products/services 

  • Business Flow Knowledge: Ability to navigate the end-to-end flow of goods, money, and data to drive innovation, de-risk solutions and enable successful launches of new experiences.  

  • Change Leadership: Demonstrated success in leading change within start-up-like environments, managing high levels of uncertainty and ambiguity while remaining comfortable with large-company processes and governance.  

  • Resilience & Problem-Solving: Skilled at removing roadblocks, finding alternative solutions, and staying resilient in complex, fast-changing situations. 

  • Project Management toolbox a plus 

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.

Top Skills

Agile Methodologies
Project Management Toolbox
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The Company
HQ: Billund
19,827 Employees

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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