Product Leader - Packing & Processing (Director)

Job Description

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Are you interested in leading a team of Product Managers in the Packing & Processing space of the LEGO Group?

Bring your experience as a Product Leader and your excellent partner management and communication skills and come join a professional team dedicated to deliver outstanding digital products for the area!

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead product teams through change, helping them retain focus through value creation and continuous deliverables
• As people leader - recruit, develop and support the growth of a versatile, diverse and inclusive team of product managers (5 direct reports)
• Empower product teams in Operations user group to define quarterly objectives and key results that align with strategic priorities, providing deeper context, and access to key partners across the LEGO Group leading to product execution
• As Product Leader responsible for ensuring Product teams have clarity and understands the key problems they need to solve
• Develop medium to long term high level vision and strategy for own area (Roadmap and ambitions) and support the development of annual portfolio objectives and key results to ensure focus on critical priorities across user group
• Collaborate with insight, foresight and UX research teams to develop a deeper understanding of market / tech trends, manufacturing challenges and opportunities, identifying further needs for product discovery that improve experiences and productivity for our employees

Play your part in our team succeeding

Product management in Operations (Manufacturing and Supply Chain) is anchored in Operations Transformation – reporting directly to Chief Operations Officer (COO). As Product Leader you will be reporting to Head of Products Manufacturing, but also joining cross functional leadership teams relevant for specific capabilities and domain knowledge – as example Global Packing Wheel and Global Processing Wheel will be relevant.

The Product Leader is responsible for a team of five product managers, supporting their development, managing performance, and creating the right culture to empower them and provide psychological safety to fail and learn. The Product Leader is key to enabling people to achieve their potential, and improving product management capability across the LEGO Group.

Do you have what it takes?

Product Leader is a newly established role within Operations as a natural adoption in our digital transformation journey – product organization established and scaled in the last 2-3 years.

Experience

• Demonstrable experience as a Product Leader where you have directly implemented product solutions/digital applications and have enhanced the end user experience
• Proven ability in building and leading high performing product teams, inspiring and empowering them to work towards common goals
• Experience leading highly skilled employees
• Experience in managing complex projects, remaining agile in an ever-changing environment with demanding stakeholder management

Key Functional Skills

• A strong networker with strong partner management skills.
• A great communicator and ability to clearly articulate the problem and proposed solution
• Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams from tech, design and business
• An enthusiastic self-starter who can manage projects autonomously, with the ability to toggle between attending to detail and steering overall vision
• Technically curious, with a good understanding of software development practices and web/mobile technologies
• Able to make and take ownership for decisions at a fast pace
• Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrixed organisation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Product Leadership Skills

• A proven track record of leading cross-functional agile teams through the full product life cycle
• Ability to quickly gain the confidence of the business and colleagues through good communication and influencing skills and acting as an advocate of the Product Management team both externally and internally
• Ensure effective leadership of the team; maintaining a continuous learning environment, setting clear objectives to ensure there is clarity on what needs to be achieved for any given work
• Offer a supportive coaching style, proactively encouraging personal and professional development and achievement across the product team

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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