Vice President, Manufacturing

Job Description

Join the LEGO Group as Vice President Manufacturing, Kornmarken in Billund, Denmark.

Introduction to Kornmarken -

Kornmarken is our manufacturing site in Denmark, where we have a dual strategy. One is to produce injection moulding LEGO Elements efficiently. The other is to qualify new manufacturing technology in close collaboration with our Engineering functions. The factory is located in KOM Campus which is an inspiring environment consisting of manufacturing, R&D, and engineering functions.

Play your part in our team succeeding:

This Vice President position will ensure the factory operates at its optimum level and is quickly up to pace with the market needs. This role will report directly to our SVP & GM of EMEA Manufacturing and is a key member of the EMEA Manufacturing leadership team. EMEA Manufacturing consists of three factories: Kornmarken, the Kladno factory in the Czech Republic, and the Nyiregyhaza factory in Hungary, which is also the location for our SVP & GM of EMEA Manufacturing.

As Vice President Kornmarken Manufacturing, this role will hold significant leadership accountability for the teams operating 500+ molding machines running 24/7 throughout the year, with the aim that all the elements (LEGO bricks) produced will support our Packing sites that deliver finished products to our markets.

The organization currently has around 600 people at different levels ultimately reporting up to this role. This covers the full supply chain from production, quality, engineering, logistics, maintenance, digitalization, and high bay warehouses.

The Vice President runs the Manufacturing site in Billund independently and will be a key team member within the Global Moulding Wheel, which is the forum in which global initiatives and priorities for Moulding are aligned with our other manufacturing sites: Monterrey, Mexico; Kladno, Czech Republic; Nyíregyháza, Hungary; and Jiaxing, China, along with two new sites: Vietnam and Virginia, USA.

Core Responsibilities:

1. Heading up our manufacturing site in Billund, overseeing the ongoing optimization of our manufacturing capabilities, ensuring alignment with both local labor market and company standards, and qualifying new technology in collaboration with engineering areas.
2. Develop and enhance the organization, leveraging resources and experience from our other global locations to maintain high standards and values consistent across our organization.
3. Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership to the employees and business processes of LEGO Manufacturing Kornmarken, responsible for the achievement of Key Performance Indicators set by the company.
4. Lead the team, ensuring their safety, development, and building an engaged workforce, motivated culture, using feedback, coaching, mentoring, and empowerment.
5. Establish and ensure compliance of the main area critical metrics, ensuring proper actions are in place to keep them on track.
6. Coordinate with other members of the EMEA Manufacturing leadership team.
7. Define clear objectives for the organization, ensuring their deployment, employee alignment, establishment of the required actions, and ensure their execution.
8. Ensure the correct flow of information within the organization and between other areas.
9. Manage robust development plans for the talent within Kornmarken Manufacturing as well as its leadership team.
10. Continuously improve the performance of people, processes, and systems.
11. Perform periodic performance reviews in formal and informal assessments and address any vital development areas.
12. Foster business proximity with other sites, securing global collaboration and coherence.
13. Drive global tasks to support the development of the Moulding area.
14. Establish a recurring basis program of continuous improvement and LEAN approach.
15. Ensure resources and competences within the team, following up their development evaluation.
16. Establish long and short-term projects to reach the area goals.
17. Identify and follow-up opportunities for productivity and improvements.
18. Ensure implementation of Digitalization & Automatization activities, and serve as a qualification site for new technologies.
19. Take ownership of the appropriate integration and/or implementation of the QEHS System within the operational processes and ensure its effectiveness.

Do you have what it takes?

1. Well-developed leadership experience within a production or manufacturing environment, ideally mass production and/or plastics in a multinational company with a factory network globally.
2. Senior leadership experience at the head of a large and diverse organization.
3. Understanding/experience of the plastics injection moulding process.
4. Experience working internationally and the desire to continue an international career.
5. Strong experience to work collaboratively in matrix organizations, role modeling processes and governance.
6. Tactful communication skills with maturity in managing governmental relationships to enable smooth operation.
7. Fluent English language skills required.

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:

1. Family Care Leave - Enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
2. Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
3. Wellbeing - Resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
4. Colleague Discount – Generous colleague discount from day 1.
5. Bonus - Rewards through our bonus scheme when goals are reached and if eligible.
6. Workplace - Assigned a primary workplace location with a hybrid work policy averaging 3 days per week in the office.

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 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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