Job Description
Join the LEGO Group’s Global S&OP team and play a pivotal role in balancing supply and demand, driving impactful outcomes, and contributing to the success of one of the world's most beloved brands.
This is an exciting opportunity where we craft our S&OP agenda and ultimately influence Executive decision making. To ensure we continue to balance supply and demand in the best way to reach more and more children with LEGO® play experiences!
Core Responsibilities
This role takes ownership for ensuring a strong and seamless connection between all S&OP meetings and adjacent processes. Maintaining oversight of and ensuring traction on all S&OP actions and process developments to ensure the process remains relevant and high functioning.
Process Ownership: Overall responsible for the cycle storyline and effective preparations into Pre S&OP and Exec S&OP. Coordinate all materials associated with Pre S&OP meeting, including state of affairs, decision request, key messages. Ensure robust follow up and secure red thread between cycle meetings by actively leading S&OP action log.
Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with key specialists and leaders across supply chain, commercial, finance and more to ensure data accuracy, insightful analysis, and see opportunities for optimization and standardization.
Team engagement: Collaborate as a member of the Global S&OP team, reporting directly to the Head of Global S&OP, and Business Enabling. Ensure consistency in materials, messaging, and governance across global S&OP initiatives. Assist in preparing materials for Executive S&OP reviews and provide ad hoc analyses as needed. Support team resilience by providing structured back up to your peers during periods of absence or peak workload.
Process governance & improvement: Uphold the integrity of all S&OP decision making through strong data governance in collaboration with input providers and Supply Chain BI team. Lead cross-functional teams to address actions in cycle as well as deliver effective and timely process improvements.
Play your part in our team succeeding!
Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) is a critical global function within the LEGO Group with the overall purpose of optimizing the balance between supply and demand. It has high focus and attention throughout the organization, all the way up to Executive management and continues to be integral to the company’s success.
We partner the full value chain to understand the evolving risk profile of both demand and supply and ultimately secure the needed trade-off decisions.
The team is based in LEGO® Campus, Billund offering an exciting, inspiring, and flexible work environment – and a little fun play as well.
Do you have what it takes?
The preferred candidate has prior experience of handling critical or confidential information in a manner which adheres to internal policies. Strong e2e supply chain understanding including some years’ experience working in supply/demand planning roles in a global organization. Outstanding collaborator and mentorship skills including strong self-awareness. And ability to tailor communication to diverse audiences from deep functional specialists to executive leaders. Preferably also experience in a sales and operations planning role.
To succeed in this role, you will possess the following
- A degree in economics, supply chain or related subject and/or relevant experience in an international business environment
- Strong eye for business with ability to think “bigger picture” whilst also being comfortable in the details.
- Problem solving capabilities. Identify and resolve issues in a collaborative manner.
- A self-starter mentality, highly persistent and with a can-do attitude.
- Experience working across different functional areas and time zones, both online and offline.
- Outstanding English language skills, written and oral, with the ability to make complex messages simple for a broad audience to understand.
- High IT literacy, including SAP and Microsoft office Suite, especially PowerPoint and Power BI.
Please Note: No relocation assistance is offered for this position.
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.
Just imagine building your dream career.
Then make it real.
Join the LEGO® team today.
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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!
