Quality Manager - New Product Development

Job Description

Passionate about Quality and do want to help us temporary secure the best quality Play & Learning experience for our LEGO® builders of tomorrow?

Don't miss out on this great cover opportunity to join the LEGO® Operations area and bring that strong quality-toolbox into play. When supporting our development team with new and exciting LEGO® products!

This is a temporary paternity cover for 7 months. Relocation support is not offered for this role.

Core Responsibilities

The Quality Manager (QM) are supporting product development teams with facilitation and mentoring risk-based quality assurance. QM plays a key role in specifying quality requirements and test methods to validate these to ensure we continue providing outstanding play experiences.

Also, lead quality assurance and testing activities and methods prioritized product development projects. And act as sparring partner to the project managers throughout the development phase with regards to quality and risk management.

• Facilitate the translation of product requirements into clearly specified quality requirements, understand the CTQs, and secure executable test plans.
• Call out product quality risks, facilitate quality risk mitigations, and follow through during the product development process.
• Actively seek comprehensive understanding of issues, opportunities, and risk impact from a quality point of view.
• Identify improvement areas within functional area by new ways of working and mentor and share knowledge with internal colleagues.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Come join our Quality in Development - Novelties team in Billund. We play an enabling role in launching feasible, desirable, and viable products driven by collaboration and a data driven approach. We are committed to safeguarding and assuring quality in the LEGO® products.

Being comfortable working in a changing environment where there is a need to be flexible and adjust the role in different projects. Bring a positive mentality and take the ability to motivate and engage others, while using curiosity and focus to understand and progress in the projects.

Do you have what it takes?

We imagine the preferred Candidate to enjoy being engaged in a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary environment, where you can benefit from your strong facilitation and communicative skills.

Also, some previous work experience in a similar quality assurance role in a product development set-up working with preventive quality management, preferably from a larger global company. Moreover:

• Expertise within quality as part of the value chain and understand the impact of good quality through the whole value chain from idea to final product.
• Worked with a risk-based approach to product development.
• Knowledge about DFSS (Design for Six Sigma) and APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) is an advantage.
• Proficiency in English – both oral and written are needed since we are an international gathered team.

Please note: If you require any reasonable accommodations or adjustments throughout the application process, please let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs.

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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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.

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