Senior Program Manager, Engineering Value Chain Digitalization

Job Description

Come lead a ground-breaking journey in the world of engineering The LEGO Group is seeking a visionary Sr. Program Manager to spearhead digital initiatives that will redefine how our products are engineered and matured. This pivotal role will drive innovation, using pioneering technology to enhance decision-making and streamline processes across our engineering value chain.

Drive a strategic portfolio of digital initiatives to transform how products (elements and moulds) are engineered and matured. Collaborate closely with digital product owners and leadership to identify and prioritize business needs, translating them into implemented solutions. The main focus areas include:

• Stronger engineering data foundation from implementation of good data governance practices in alignment with LEGO Data Strategy.
• Solutions providing contextual data to enable improved data driven decision-making, such as smart data views and AI-driven design recommendations.
• End-to-end communication platform to ensure traceability and transparency of design rationales, documenting how final designs are arrived at from product requirements.
• Solutions to trigger and automatically activate steps in the engineering value chain processes.

Advocate and facilitate the Digital transition change journey by:

• Deliver clear direction setting and prioritization to the E&ME organization in alignment with its digitalization strategy.
• Inspire and spot digitalization opportunities in the E&ME value chain based on data, processes, and exploration together with Specialists and Managers.
• Align and clarify the interfaces for execution of the Digital roadmap across the wider organization (E&Q). Be the link to other strategic Digital initiatives in The LEGO Group.
• Form bridge between the engineering organization's digital business needs and the Digital Technology organization, which is an important enabler for development and implementation of new solutions.
• Ensure implementation of prioritized Digital initiatives by providing technical leadership to an E&ME core Digital Team.

E&ME has an extensive focus on using the possibilities within digitalization to support the overall Digital Strategy within The LEGO Group. This new role supports the digitalization journey in the Development phase within Elements & Moulds Engineering. Digitalization will challenge our current processes and ways of working to improve our ability to deliver high quality moulds for current and future industrialization. Digitalization will also enable lead time and cost reductions for the entire Engineering value chain

The ideal candidate has proven experience with implementation of digital solutions in a product engineering context, working with integrated product development processes or systems engineering. They come with a strong end-to-end business understanding and ability to build value cases for digital initiatives, preferably from an engineer-to-order or make-to-order company.

Moreover, they have:

• Ability to communicate business requirements to digital product team(s).
• Strong communication and collaborator management skills across all levels in a global organization.
• A phenomenal teammate with a strong strategic and proactive approach, who thrives in a fast-moving, global environment.
• Advanced-level analytical skills capable of solving complex problems in a heavily interconnected ecosystem.

The position is based in Billund, DK and relocation support is not offered for this role.

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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.

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.

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