Senior Planning Manager

Job Description

Here is your opportunity to address a meaningful leadership role, while supporting, motivating and developing team members to succeed, ensuring that LEGO Bricks are available for our packing sites at the right time and in the most cost-efficient way

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

As Senior Planning Manager, you will be leading a team close to the heart of the LEGO Group. You will help the team to prioritize, tackle obstacles and navigate a broad stakeholder landscape in our Billund (KOM) Moulding Production. More specifically, you will:

• Lead, motivate and develop a team of eight Production Planners by setting targets and directions, while ensuring that they handle tasks within the agreed frames.
• Secure and follow up on critical issues with local manufacturing management to secure component availability in a global perspective and minimize costs.
• Represent the Planning department in the daily Billund Factory Huddle.
• Join the Global Component Planning Extended Leadership Team and Billund Moulding Manager Team owning and driving the planning agenda.
• Secure adherence to global production planning processes and continued alignment/improvements with global planning stakeholders.
• Collaborate closely on a tactical level with global teams and Component Planning Support Team.
• Drive Learning & Development (L&D) in the team with a curiosity mindset to also enhance the digital agenda.
• Advocate and secure process ownership and alignment to drive efficiency and standardization.
• Execute governance and control: developing, supervising and communicating critical business performance indicators; identifying risks and driving corrective action to deliver business targets.

KOM Component Planning department consists of 20 skilled and dedicated colleagues, hereof a smaller team of eight Production Planners, which you will be leading daily.

The main purpose of the department is to ensure that the LEGO Bricks are available for our packing sites at the right time and in the most cost-efficient way. We do this by securing availability of raw material and storage space, efficient capacity utilization on moulds and machines, and suitable distribution of the elements produced.

The Production Planners support this by making the best possible scheduling of production orders and in collaboration with the Billund Factory making sure that production related issues are continuously addressed and solved to secure timely delivery of components.

The ideal candidate comes with minimum a BSc degree within Supply Chain, Operations Management or equivalent. You bring 5+ years of experience with strong functional process expertise driving complex projects/processes within Supply Chain Planning, or you bring minimum 2 years of leadership experience within Supply Chain Planning. Knowledge and experience from LEGO Supply Chain will be an advantage. In addition, you have:

• Strong drive and motivation for leading, coaching and supporting the team members.
• Strong analytical skills enabling to understand and navigate within the Production Planning complexity, workflows and challenges.
• Proven abilities to structure, coordinate and make key decisions when needed.
• Learning mindset and core ability to spot areas for improvements.
• Great collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Empathic team player that can see the benefits of "succeeding" individually and together.
• Proficiency in English and Danish both written and verbal.

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.

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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