Head of German Sales, LEGO Education (m/f/d)

Job Description

Join the LEGO Education International (LEI) team in Munich to take responsibility for the LEGO Education business in the German market.

This is a great leadership opportunity to manage the LEGO Education business in Germany, ensuring we fully maximize our potential, and reach more students and classrooms.

Please note: This is a Senior Manager level position.

Core responsibilities

• Take responsibility for channel strategy by managing and growing our business and ensuring we grow our reach and impact in German schools.

• Represent Germany into the LEI LT and wider LE business. Be the eyes and ears of German market education insights and needs and feed these back into the LEGO Education product and strategy organizations.

• Manage our brand in Germany and drive messaging to strengthen brand awareness.

• Establish and manage a network of regional partners and communities in education departments who can become advocates for Hands on Learning.

• Grow the reach and outcomes of our teacher training initiatives.

• Collaborate with colleagues in the LEGO Group to ensure that we show up together wherever appropriate in cohesive and impactful fashion.

• Model a compliance-first approach to your team, colleagues and partners and customers.

• Coach your team to build and hone stronger competencies, model a true growth mindset, and constantly challenge for outstanding results.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Starting with the initial release of LEGO MINDSTORMS in 1998, LEGO Education has been at the forefront of building experiences that merge digital and physical play. Today, we have built on this history with products like LEGO Education SPIKE Prime and LEGO Education SPIKE Essential.

Working with our Go to Market partners around the world, we believe we can bring classrooms to life through hands-on-learning and make a lasting impact on students.

Do you have what it takes?

• Several years of account/market leadership experience. Experience of online sales is essential.

• Passion for channel management and business execution.

• Strong legal and framework approach to performance execution – you follow process and protocol to conduct business with standards and quality.

• Ability to show and model critical thinking; be choiceful in growing our business with the partners. Strong and proven strategic foresight that leads to results.

• Curiosity and humility – a passion for learning, improving, and building stronger capabilities in yourself and those around you.

• Strong digital skills and fluency with data and CRM and the confidence to act on the data.

• Strong attention to detail with proficient and professional verbal communication and writing skills.

• Proven people leadership capabilities, team-orientated and can work with teams globally, with ability to also show indirect management and development with team members.

• Proficiency in both English and German is essential.

• Ability to travel (1 week in 4).

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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. 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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