Senior Project Leader Share on: + **Location** Billund, Denmark + **Job ID** 0000026306 + **Category** Project / Program Management **Job Description** **Do you want to influence future product development at The LEGO Group?** Then bring your cross-functional knowledge and leadership skills into play to help deliver the future roadmap of capabilities. _No relocation assistance is offered for this position._ **Core Responsibilities** + Drive upstream Portfolio Enabling (PE) processes to explore and implement new product/packaging/production capabilities + Lead the upfront concept evaluations, and drive prioritization and commitment decisions amongst all relevant sponsors and partners + Assess portfolio needs and build business cases that enable strategic opportunities + Maintain PE roadmap with a 3-5 year view in order to explore, validate, pilot, and scale new capabilities + Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Design, Element Design, Graphic Design, functional areas in Operations, Finance, and business users) to ensure successful implementation + Identify trends and areas for process improvement to support evolving business needs and systems + Lead risk management assessment across both feasibility, desirability, and viability and secure mitigation activities through project lifetime + Manage project progression and provide leadership direction in changing environment + Lead the right balance between agile and waterfall and be the change agent for new ways of working + Support quality delivery and a key player in complexity management **Play your part in our team succeeding** The Project Management & Portfolio Enabling team provides project leadership in the end-to-end novelty product development process - bringing fantastic ideas to life and joy to our consumers in the "heart" of The LEGO Group. As Senior Project Leader for Portfolio Enabling, you will support the identification of strategic operational capabilities tying to future commercial needs, and strive to further build our long-term competitive advantage. You will also drive process optimization, ways of working, and a collaborative approach to improve time to market. **Do** **you** **have** **what** **it** **takes?** + Commercial (Cand. Merc. HA/HD), Engineer, logistic education or other relevant education + Extensive project management experience, specifically in Product Development, Design, Finance, or Operations + Masters or equivalent experience with solid know-how of supply chain management – like operations, planning or procurement. + Ability to thrive and lead the way forward in a changing environment + Resilient when things are tough, able to remove roadblocks and look for different ways to achieve the objective + Strong collaboration and communication skills and ability to engage with partners on all levels + Proficiency in English \#LI-ML2 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. Just imagine building your dream career. Then make it real. **Join the LEGO® team today.**