Design Manager, Textile Platform Lead

Job Description

Are you eager to lead and develop LEGO's textile projects? In this role, you'll drive the creation of innovative and high-quality textile materials, helping to transform creative concepts into optimized, feasible designs

Bring your material expertise, strong project management skills, process excellence and passion for innovation to help us deliver tactile play experiences that inspire the builders of tomorrow

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

• Act as the go-to person for textile opportunities in early development, collaborating with Design, Franchises, and Concept teams to evaluate new element ideas.
• Lead textile exploration briefs and workshops, supporting creative exploration and early prototyping activities while ensuring alignment on material and functional requirements.
• Turn creative concepts into actionable project plans, delivering feasible, high-quality material solutions with clear timelines, and effective risk management.
• Maintain and optimize project workflows, documentation, and data management in systems like Signavio, F-Track, and Operational Cockpits.
• Manage handover and approval processes for materials, colours, prints, and finishes, ensuring timely and compliant delivery.
• Collaborate with internal experts (Chemical, Master Data, Procurement and Quality teams) to ensure materials meet LEGO's performance and compliance standards.
• Optimize performance with suppliers and Procurement across Europe and Asia, aligning metrics and processes, seeking opportunities for process simplification, lead-time reduction, and continuous improvement.
• Contribute to the textile strategic roadmap, innovation initiatives, and sustainable material development plans, balancing short-term delivery with long-term goals.
• Share portfolio insights, reports, and status updates to promote transparency, alignment, and informed decision-making.

The Textile Design Team at LEGO drives the development of innovative, high-quality materials and elements in fabric and foil, that bring play experiences to life. As a Textile Platform Lead, you connect Design, Engineering, Platform & Sustainability, and suppliers, coordinating cross-functional projects, translating creative ideas into actionable plans, and optimizing workflows. By ensuring timely delivery, alignment, and compliance, you help LEGO deliver inspiring solutions while supporting the broader organization's innovation and operational excellence.

• Solid experience in design or product development and material innovation, ideally with a background and experience in project or program management.
• Proven track record of managing complex, cross-functional projects from concept to delivery.
• Strong technical understanding of materials, manufacturing processes, and sustainability principles.
• Experienced in process management, documentation, and project systems (PLM, Signavio, or equivalent).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels and nurture connections with all collaborators.
• Self-motivated, with a structured approach, consistently curious, focused, and brave — eager to learn, lead change, and shape the future of textiles at LEGO.
• Passionate about children's play experiences and how materials enhance creativity, sensory engagement, and imagination.
• Fluent in English (Mandarin or additional European language would be a plus).

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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.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children's Rights.

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