Capacity Manager Specialist, Elements

Are you ready to join our mission to set up a world-class capacity and demand planning process that enables data-driven decision-making in our global element & mould production?

Bring your capacity and demand planning management experience, strong collaboration skills and analytical mindset into play in this role, and join us on our exciting and ambitious capacity planning journey

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

As Capacity Manager Specialist, you will be responsible for the forecasting and capacity management primarily, within a 3-18 month horizon. More specifically, you will:

• Establish and maintain collaboration between capacity owners, planners and internal partners.
• Be part of Elements & Moulds (E&M) internal S&OP process.
• Develop and maintain forecast and capacity processes for E&M.
• Produce and report detailed and reliable forecasts, ensuring alignment to agreed forecast pace.
• Perform capacity simulations and build detailed global capacity overviews to ensure balanced supply and demand.
• Proactively identify future bottlenecks in the E&M Supply Chain and facilitate back-on-track actions when needed.
• Align yearly capacity thresholds across the E&M Supply Chain.
• Drive initiatives that improve the current tactical and strategic planning process.
• Participate in projects that automate and enhance tactical planning processes (e.g., simulation capability).
• Contribute to the implementation of new functional areas within E&M.

Play your part in our team succeeding

In E&M department, we work with the development, production, and qualification of moulds that produce LEGO bricks You will be a part of our Planning & Capacity Management team, consisting of 12 Capacity and Demand Managers, crunching numbers, analyzing supply chain complexity, and navigating complex partner landscape to ensure balance between capacity and demand.

Collaboration is key to our success. You will proactively search for and analyze key insights, working together with your fellow managers to collectively find innovative, data-driven solutions to current and future challenges. As such, you will apply your expertise to recommend when and where to adjust capacity to meet demand.

Do you have what it takes?

The ideal candidate brings 3+ years of experience in demand and capacity planning, supply chain analytics, forecasting, processes and continuous improvements. Furthermore, you have:

• Experience working for midsize and/or large international production companies with a global footprint, preferably related to engineering.
• Strong operational and tactical understanding of capacity and demand planning management.
• Proven track record in understanding complex engineering supply chains.
• A strong independent communicator who enjoys working in a team setting and collaborate with cross-functional colleagues.
• Excellent collaboration skills and adaptability in a dynamic environment with evolving functional requirements.
• Knowledge and experience with planning tools such as SAP.
• Experience with Anaplan and Kinaxis is an advantage.
• Proficiency in English, 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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