Senior Manager, Branded Channel Governance

Job Description

Do you want to play a critical role in elevating our global franchising business?

LEGO Certified Stores (LCS) are fully branded LEGO Stores owned & operated by our global network of Partners and will number 1,000 stores by the end of 2025.

Join our newly established team and help build critical retail capabilities, delivering on the ambition of making LEGO Branded Stores the pinnacle shopping and brand experience for our consumers.

This is a fixed term, 1 year maternity cover position.

Core Responsibilities

In this role, you will support the developmen t, facilitation, and successful implementation of the LCS Elevation Program, aimed at strengthening our bonds with Partners, continuously improving our processes and solutions to ensure relevance and efficiency. This entails:

• Enabling store expansion and “ like for like” growth by facilitating specific project streams to provide a seamless customer mono-branded experience in Partner stores.

• Developing a Governance Framework to ensure consistency of execution within concepts and guidelines.

• Supporting key bus iness priorities such as Store Portfolio Segmentation, Trade Investments, and Store Estate Optimisation to drive strategic decision making.

• Partnering with Stakeholders within the Commercial Organisation to ensure action plans and local strategies are alig ned with the LCS Business Model.

• Building consensus across multiple functions, aligning people behind your goal.

Play your part in our team succeeding

As Senior Manager Governance, you will play a key role in further strengthening the Value Proposition to wards our Partners. By building a strong understanding of our entire branded retail business, you will help drive critical improvement in close collaboration with key stakeholders from right across our Commercial Organisation .

Working across all geographie s and multiple global functions, this role truly engages with many areas of the organisation , and as an expert in Partner Stores, you will make key decisions that will educate stakeholders and bring Partners and Consumers closer to the LEGO brand

LCS play s a unique role within The LEGO Group. As this channel is still relatively young but growing significantly, it’s an ideal time to really make an impact and help attract more LEGO builders.

Do you have what it takes?

The successful candidate comes with prov en experience in retail or franchise sales with a solid understanding of merchandising, finance, logistics , and store operations. Furthermore, you come with:

• A proven track record of developing and delivering critical improvement projects and initiatives.

• Strong project management skills that enable you to lead projects and prioritise numerous tasks and projects simultaneously.

• A commercial, strategic mindset with quantitative and analytical skills allowing you to extract insights and meaningful conclusion s from complex business problems.

• Extensive key stakeholder management experience and comfort in providing challenge and a different perspective when necessary.

• You have solid English verbal and written communication skills, an open mind and the ability to work across many markets and organisational levels.

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 seeksto 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.

Research shows that women and people from different minority backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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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