Senior Director - Americas Demand Planning + **Location** Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America + **Job ID** 0000026274 + **Category** Supply Chain **Job Description** Ready to take the reins in a vibrant and dynamic environment where your strategic vision can truly shine? Join us as a Demand Planning Leader at the LEGO® Group, where your expertise will help shape the future of play! In this senior-level role, you’ll not only lead our finished goods demand planning process but also inspire a team of talented professionals dedicated to delivering the right LEGO sets to children around the world. If you're passionate about driving continuous improvement, fostering collaboration, and making data-driven decisions, this is your chance to build something amazing! **Core Responsibilities** + Lead the finished goods demand planning process across the mid-term operational to long-term strategic horizon, supporting the needs of the LEGO Group, consumers, and customers. This includes overseeing processes, systems, people, and organizational capabilities while shaping the strategic vision. + Actively lead, provide input, and participate in global sales and operations planning processes, leveraging data and insights to drive business decisions and deliver a great commercial outcome. + Drive continuous improvement by optimizing demand planning architecture to enhance forecast accuracy, inventory efficiency, decision-making, and customer service. + Build influence and foster collaborative, effective relationships with key partners in the Americas and globally. + Lead, develop, and inspire a team of demand planning professionals–supporting a high-performance culture and providing coaching and professional development. + Ensure demand planning aligns with strategic business objectives, underpinning both the company's short- and long-term goals. + Monitor and action insights from forecast accuracy metrics and operational key performance indicators. **Play your part in our team succeeding** This is a senior-level role, leading the demand planning process in a very dynamic, exciting Americas business environment. This position requires strong leadership, critical thinking, and analytical and collaborative skills–so we can put more LEGO sets in the hands of children, supporting our mission to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow. It has a regional and global scope and is a key leader within the Global Commercial Operations leadership team. This opportunity offers a strong platform for leaders to further develop their team and elevate their own leadership by contributing to both strategic and operational priorities. Focus expected on building demand planning capabilities to improve our data, processes, and systems to enable and drive insights and dialogue towards strategic and tactical decisions. **Do you have what it takes?** + Held a leadership role in demand planning. Extensive experience in demand planning, forecasting, and operations, particularly within a large organization. + Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and align demand plans to overall business strategy. + Skilled at both verbal and written communication. + Proven track record of leading, motivating, and developing high-performing and inclusive teams. + Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and stakeholder management skills. + Analytical, motivated, and detail-oriented. + High degree of curiosity and demonstrated capability to navigate change. + Experience driving innovation in forecasting to improve accuracy and efficiency. + Experience working in CPG operations and commercial/demand planning functions. + Advanced studies in supply chain management, including APICS certifications. + Demand planning system implementation. **Compensation** The salary for this position has a range of $196,229.00 - $294,343.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer. 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 are some of what to 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 you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based **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 **Your 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. 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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team. We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.” 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. We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees. Online Application Accessibility Statement; which is intended forpeople with disabilities- LEGO systems endeavors to make www.LEGO.com/jobs accessible to any and all users. 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