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Senior Planning Analyst - Product Development (1-year Contract)

• Location Billund, Denmark

• Job ID 0000016942

• Category Project / Program Management

Job Description

Are you passionate about end-to-end planning in the product development process?

Then join us in the LEGO® Group with your efficient planning and stakeholder management skills to help ensure we bring phenomenal novelty products and experiences to the consumers!

Please note that this is a 1-year contract position, work location is Billund, Denmark and no relocation assistance is offered for this role.

Core Responsibilities

• Facilitate interactions with managers and senior leaders across all capacity groups within Product Development

• Orchestrate capacity choices across the connected functions within Product Development to strike the optimal balance of performance, the Portfolio Plan, flexibility, and capacity

• Analyze and recommend solutions to complex situations within balancing portfolio planning and development capacity.

• Lead improvement initiatives for the D&OP process, including complex and ambiguous continuous improvement opportunities.

• Part of boosting a culture with increased empowerment, trust, and accountability for the overall goals – working by the philosophy that leadership is for everyone.

Play your part in our team succeeding

As part of the newly established Development & Operational Planning (D&OP) function within Product Development, you will work with dedicated team members in a dynamic environment. Your mission is to optimize the product development process by balancing the portfolio plan with development capacities over the long term. This role involves collaborating with senior stakeholders to ensure transparency and informed decision-making at both operational and strategic levels. You are ready to implement new processes, navigate complex interdependencies, and take the initiative to get results!

Do you have what it takes?

• Proven excellence in managing and facilitating cross-functional meetings

• Experience of working with diverse stakeholders and tackle complex problems or exploit challenging opportunities

• Track-record of using analytic skills for impactful visual presentation and decision support

• Some operational experience with Product Development, Sales & Operations Planning or Business Planning Processes is an advantage

• Excel skills at advanced level, knowledge of Power BI and SAP is an advantage

• Proficiency in English

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.

• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes 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.

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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

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.