Technical Program, Director

Job Description

There has never been a more exciting time to join the LEGO Group! If you love delivering large complex programs that will transform the way we work, and enjoy being part of a collaborative and innovate environment, join our team as the ERP Technical Programme Director and play a crucial role in driving the LEGO Group forward.

This role demands exceptional collaborative skills, an ability to deal with ambiguity and the talent to quickly build trust within a matrixed team. You will be instrumental in optimizing our program processes, ensuring they are effective without being overly bureaucratic. You will be able to lead and influence across organizational boundaries.

*No relocation assistance is offered for this position.*

Core Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Own, execute and fully accountable for a comprehensive digital plan for the global SAP S/4HANA transformation, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines, including full accountability for budget and cost management. Manage and coordinate dependencies, alignments, and trade-offs with other major digital transformations

• Project Oversight: Be responsible for the entire lifecycle, including system design, configuration, data migration, and launch activities. Manage scope, budget and timelines within acceptable quality and risk levels

• Collaborator Engagement: Act as the primary digital partner with business areas and external partners, encouraging collaboration and a one team mentality. Accountable for vendor management (supported by procurement), SoW negotiations and contractuals, and performance management

• Team Management: Coordinate and lead a high-performing, multidisciplinary group of SAP and digital professionals and product teams, ensuring effective resource allocation and skill development

• Innovation & Best Practices: Stay abreast of industry trends and new technologies, using them to improve the value delivered by SAP S/4HANA

Play your part in our team succeeding

As the ERP Technical Programme Director, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the business by driving the successful implementation of the ERP transformation program. Our first step on this journey is our ‘foundational leap,’ moving from R3 ECC to S4 Hana. Reporting directly to the VP Corporate Product Technology, you will be fully accountable for the entire technical delivery lifecycle, including the end-to-end design, configuration, data migration, etc, ensuring alignment with our strategic objectives and operational needs. This is a unique opportunity to lead a high-impact initiative, collaborate with multi-functional partners, and establish a robust foundation for our digital future.

We are looking for new team member who is capable of orchestrating highly complex programs and highly experienced in SAP Programme delivery. Pragmatism will be key, you’ll need to make sense of the world through collaboration, while adding the right amount of structure but avoiding unnecessary governance.

Do you have what it takes?

• Demonstrable experience in a senior leadership role managing large-scale SAP transformations, preferably within the manufacturing sector

• Deep expertise in SAP platforms, including ECC and S/4HANA, with a solid understanding of their functional and technical capabilities

• Track record of successfully delivering complex, multi-country ERP implementations on time and within budget

• Strong leadership and partner management skills, with the ability to influence and inspire at all organizational levels

• Outstanding problem-solving and decision-making prowess, along with a focus on achieving positive outcomes

• Bachelor's or equivalent experience or Master's degree in IT, Business Administration, or a related field; relevant SAP certifications are a plus

Advanced English both written and verbal would be ideal as we are an internationally gathered team.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.

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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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