Marketing Director, Lead

Job Description

Would it be your dream job to deliver one of LEGO's critical strategic projects for a new franchise as part of our cross-functional team?

Bring your passion for marketing, innovation, brand and business building for this exciting new opportunity

Core Responsibilities

As Marketing Director, you will be part of our global toy development business and an integrated team member of the Global Leadership team (LT) for a new LEGO franchise. You will work on our brick-built toy line and develop, optimize, and take to market our brick-built offer.

Be a key marketing innovation driver:

• Propose, develop, inspire, and execute innovative, first in class Go to Market strategies, truly pioneering within the toy industry and the product Fandom.

Show great leadership

• Play an active role innovating internal marketing thinking and step changing how LEGO products go to market. Drive and influence key development milestones and leadership forums across the year, including (internal & external) key senior leaders.

• Be the functional lead within the franchise marketing team - driving the agenda, inspiring, and coordinating the goals and outputs of a direct and indirect team consisting of strong and seasoned marketing professionals.

• Through indirect leadership, co-create with - and influence - other internal and external partners within product and marketing development.

Product & Marketing Development

• Collaborating with Franchise LT and across the wider organization to turn consumer insights into innovative powerful play and communication value propositions.

• Help champion and strengthen the IP partner collaboration and the development of the new LEGO Franchise as a brand experience across different audiences.

• Alongside the LT, co-create the future of our product strategy and portfolio.

• Lead the sell in process and build a strong connection with lead markets to ensure a strong global portfolio.

• Lead Communication campaigns and programs. Lead the strategy, development, and execution of content and orchestrate a strategy for content in Owned LEGO channels, Shared and Earned ecosystems (IP Partners).

• Be a connector across the LEGO ECOSYSTEM, engaging with partners, using existing channels and driving innovation.

Business leadership

• Navigating the unknown and calculated risks - driving meaningful innovation and change.

• Influencing senior level partners and sophisticated organization matrixes.

• Provide a strong pulse on business performance, industry and competition, and act on those insights.

• Provide a deep understanding of the targeted audiences (kids 6-12yrs and parents) taking an Audience First approach and translating their needs into actions and critical thinking.

• Engage with markets in developing a strong business, and following up on performance and executing global plans.

• Lead initiatives to improve our business model and footprint (i.e., new business models).

• Support the HoP to ensure the consumer sales and P&L objectives for the franchise are met and initiate corrective actions with markets if needed.

Please note that this role is based in Billund (DK). Expected travel activity is around 20 days per year.

Play your part in our team succeeding

In PG New Business we focus on innovating and growing our business and active base through newness and first-time ever propositions, elevating the Brand’s equity, relevance and overall excitement from kids and adults. We not only look for new properties/products, but also at the approach around how we work and take products to market.

The Global Marketing Department is responsible for creating and fostering consumer demand by converting consumer, shopper and market insights into compelling & innovative product lines, marketing strategies and campaigns. This role will focus on developing our business within new territories. Furthermore, this is a key leadership role within one of our businesses with the highest potential.

Do you have what it takes

• A highly proficient and innovative senior leader with strong product and social marketing development experience – ideally with a proven track record of releasing a new property to market.

• A passion for toys and you understand the universe around developing, manufacturing, and distributing them. Experience in physical toys and social experiences is a plus, or with an international/global consumer product. IP experience is a plus.

• Experience with fandom and an intuitive understanding of how we can connect with kids and their culture in an authentic and meaningful way.

• A phenomenal collaborator and indirect leader who thrives when leading indirect reports and partners of different seniorities effectively, generating positive relationships, and influencing big cross-company internal-external agendas.

• Ability to create order out of uncertainty. With persistence and resilience, you find excitement in working in flexible constantly evolving environments and dare to take calculated risks with agility responding to the changing external landscape.

• Fantastic communication and presentation skills.

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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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