Project Manager

About the role Job Description Just imagine helping great ideas become great products through the power of collaboration, planning, and leadership. Then make it real.

About the role As our Project Manager, you'll play a vital part in driving consumer products and experiences from idea to launch balancing business ambitions, innovation, and value chain excellence across a global stakeholder landscape. As the Project Manager, you'll have responsibility for creating clarity and momentum across the project team. You'll own end‑to‑end project planning, risk management and governance, while continuously looking for opportunities to optimise processes and ways of working. Working across the LEGO® Group’s Licensing & Extended Line organisation, you'll collaborate with a diverse global stakeholder network to keep projects progressing through critical milestones. Please note that relocation assistance is not available for this position. Some flexibility in working hours will be required due to the global nature of the role.

Required Qualifications Strong Project Management toolbox and craftmanship e.g. building strong project plans & excellent risk management to drive proactivity

Proven experience leading novelty product development projects

Resilient mindset with a demonstrated ability to remove roadblocks and find alternative pathways to achieve objectives

Strong team leadership skills to ensure a highly motivated team with clear direction & priorities

Collaborated with global teams across multiple functions and time zones

Self-driven with a positive, proactive and analytical mindset

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with proven ability to engage at all organizational levels and with cross functional colleagues

Fluent in English, both written and spoken

Preferred Qualifications Completed a recognised project management certification such as SCRUM Master, IPMA, PMI, or PRINCE2

Understanding of supply chain management, operations, planning, or procurement

Worked within physical product development environments

Core Responsibilities Planning & progress management: Responsible for E2E planning and adjustment of plans where needed

Daily (informal) team leadership: Ensure progress, clarity in priorities and roles and secure a high performing and motivated team

Risk Management: Lead risk management and assessment across both feasibility, desirability, and viability and secure mitigation activities through project lifetime with a full E2E value chain perspective.

Own quality management activities and play a key role in managing project complexity

Ways of Working: Responsible for setting up, implementing and improving ways‑of‑working to drive efficiency of a global team in different time zones e.g. meeting structure, workshops and continuous improvement on processes

Cost management, resourcing & project budgets: Responsible for managing project budgets and resources for products. Facilitate trade‑off dialogues, requests and cost recommendations. Drive governance meetings e.g. gate meetings, project updates and reporting

What you'll build Project plans that drive transparency, progress, and alignment

Effective ways of working that enable global collaboration and launch on time

Risk and quality management approaches that support proactive decision‑making

Governance structures that keep projects moving forward and teams focused on delivery

Life on the team The LEGO Group’s Licensing & Extended Line (LEL) department is responsible for growing our unique reach with consumers and deepening engagement through extended line and licensed products. As Project Manager, you will take responsibility for strategy deployment, project planning, resource and budget management, process optimization, ways of working, and securing overall project progress to meet critical milestones. You will lead projects across LEL and in collaboration with other parts of the LEGO Group. You'll join the Project Management & Portfolio Enabling team within Licensing & Extended Line – a team who make things happen. We drive projects forward, bring people together, create structure in complexity, and keep momentum when things get challenging. At the same time, we create transparency and overview across our project portfolio and help enable the wider organisation to succeed. We believe that a good laugh, a bit of humour, and having fun along the way are just as important as delivering great results.

What success looks like Success means driving projects forward while enabling strong collaboration across the value chain. You'll work closely with colleagues across e.g. design, packaging engineering, graphics, marketing, and other specialist functions to deliver successful launches and continue strengthening how projects are planned and executed across the organisation.

What's in it for you? 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.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic & 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.

Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, and having fun.

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