Senior Sustainability Insights Manager

Posted 8 Days Ago
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London, Greater London, England, GBR
In-Office
Senior level
Kids + Family • Retail • Robotics
The Role
Lead development of sustainability thought leadership, trend analysis, and strategic insights. Monitor ESG, climate, and materials trends; synthesize research into executive briefings; run scenario planning and foresight exercises; engage external partners and support cross-functional collaboration to inform LEGO Group sustainability strategy.
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Job Description

Would you like to play your part in shaping a sustainable future with one of the world’s most iconic brands?
 

In this role as a Senior Sustainability Insights Manager, you will lead the charge in developing thought leadership content and strategic insights to guide The LEGO Group's sustainability journey. Your expertise will help anticipate global trends, synthesize complex information, ensure our efforts are grounded in the latest science and inform decision-making at the highest levels.

Please note, that no relocation assistance is offered for this role

Core Responsibilities

  • Develop thought leadership content, reports, and presentations to help us anticipate future sustainability trends, developments and the latest science to inform decision making

  • Monitor and analyse global sustainability, ESG, and climate-related trends, research and peer activity across a range of sustainability topics (e.g. sustainable materials, carbon emissions, circular business models, water)

  • Synthesize complex information into clear, forward-looking insights and strategic briefings

  • Develop scenario planning, risk mapping, and foresight exercises and support with relevant data

  • Engage with external partners, platforms, and forums to stay connected to emerging themes

  • Support awareness of sustainability trends and insights in the executive leadership team through analysis, insights and presentations

  • Manage contracts and internal contact to legal and others for partnerships

Play your part in our team succeeding

We’re playing our part in building a sustainable future, and we’re on a journey to make our products increasingly more sustainable. Conversely, sustainability represents a strategic driver for our operating environment which is increasingly material and at the same time increasingly complex and fast changing.

This role plays a crucial role in making sure that the future direction for the LEGO group is based on solid understanding of sustainability trends and insights as well as help improving the ability to anticipate trends and future the direction in which we are moving.

You will collaborate with several internal collaborators such as our Global Insights platform, Public Affairs and all functional sustainability areas and their leadership.

Do you have what it takes?

  • Master’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant area for understanding societal development such as sociology or other social sciences

  • Proven work experience, proven experience in trend analysis, sustainability strategy, ESG research and consumer research preferably with hands on experience with scenario planning and foresights methods

  • Proven track record in building insights programs

  • Strong research and analytical skills using both qualitative and quantitative methods, with the ability to filter signal from noise

  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills—verbal, visual, and written, including extensive experience preparing executive-level presentations

  • Familiarity with and experience using key ESG standards, carbon accounting approaches, climate policy developments, and global sustainability frameworks

  • Strategic approach with a passion for systems thinking and long-term impact

  • Good interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and influence

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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

  • Master's degree or equivalent experience in sociology or other social sciences
  • Proven experience in trend analysis, sustainability strategy, ESG research and consumer research
  • Hands-on experience with scenario planning and foresight methods
  • Proven track record in building insights programs
  • Strong research and analytical skills using qualitative and quantitative methods
  • Excellent communication and storytelling skills, including executive-level presentations
  • Familiarity with key ESG standards, carbon accounting approaches, climate policy developments, and global sustainability frameworks
  • Strategic approach with systems thinking and long-term impact focus
  • Strong interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and influence

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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