Material Logistics - Packing Director to Manufacturing Design & Implementation at the LEGO Group

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Permanent Placement

The LEGO Group - Billund

Could you see yourself lead a high performing global material logistic organization that lead projects and engineering development of logistic technologies and systems within Packing operations for our manufacturing facilities around the world?
Do you want to get a leadership career journey, full of development opportunities within global logistic concept deveopment?
Then bring out your sharpest leadership instruments, find your inner creative innovation spirit, pack-up your best communication skills and get your playful groove on to take the lead of our Material Logistic - Packing organization within Manufacturing Design & Implementation.

Core Responsibilities:
• A people leader that can energize, motivate, organize and develop a high performance team
• Coach and support digital and automated platform development with effective implementation as target
• Expand global footprint and structure key positions of project managers, technology managers and platform owners
• Build strategic clarity in core technologies for supply chain/manufacturing and ensure staying ahead on new technologies to explore innovation space.
• Contribute to business plan initiatives and strategy development activities.
• Challenge business status quo by drive simplicity mindset in solutions (avoid over doing.)
• Ensure fast decision-making to allow organizational agility and secure planned capacity
• Empower the functional expertise to unleash their full potential of self-leadership and making impact, fast

Play your part in our team succeeding
Manufacturing Design & Implementation is a global organization of project managers, platform engineers and other specialists.
The overall focus of the Material Logistics - Packing organisation is to implement safe, sustainable and productive logistics solutions to serve our global manufacturing organisation to succeed with demand and factory demand. We want to enhance our digital and automated abilities to develop factory of the future.
Furthermore, to take a lead part of our Sustainable Pre-pack journey in going away from single use plastics and into a more sustainable future manufacturing.

Do you have what it takes?
The ideal candidate has 8-10 years of experience as a leader for similar logistics development functions or supply chain management and strong communication and collaboration skills. You can engage and influence others through storytelling, creating an ‘emotional hook’ to our business plan/footprint.
In addition, you:
• Have a relevant educational background like a Master or Bachelor degree preferable within supply chain management, engineering technology, innovation or economics.
• Capable of fail fast - learn quick, and mentality – BE BRAVE
• Solid experience with team and people development
• Process understanding (S&OP/ Demand plan, innovation model or agility methods)
• Traveling around 30-40 days per year, but this can vary

As a person you develop a fun environment that has a ‘can do’ attitude and covert business priorities into action driven directions and respond quickly.

Also, you are
• Open, honest and authentic leadership even when a message can be hard to convey
• Determination, energy and a positive attitude – be focused and brave
• Firm and clear voice towards stakeholder communication and alignment
• ‘Simply do it’ mindset even though the path is unknown
• Role model work-life balance
• Can communicate effortlessly in English both written and verbally

Join the global LEGO® team
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, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.

Your workplace – Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.

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 and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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.

Application and interest
EPICO Search is recruitment partner to the LEGO Group for this position. Any enquiries may be directed to Regional Manager, Annette Hjordt-Nielsen.

As we want the position filled as soon as possible, we will conduct interviews on an ongoing basis.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group
These are exciting times for the LEGO Group as they look to build on their continued success. In their quest to reach the builders of tomorrow they are looking to hire the best talent and have teamed up with some awesome partners in the market, like us! This might mean you could be contacted by multiple people about different opportunities. Don’t worry though, this just means you have a really interesting profile! Be sure to let us know if you’re already speaking with the LEGO Group directly so we can make sure you’re always talking to the right people.

ABOUT EPICO
EPICO-IT is an IT consultancy with a wide range of IT resources. EPICO is one of the largest IT consultancies in Denmark with more than 10 years of experience as a consultancy. The organization employs more than 500 IT consultants in the Nordics and parts of Europe and consists of more than 70 employees, who administrate a database with more than 6.000 CV’s within all IT-areas. EPICO’s core business consists of identifying, qualifying, and delivering freelance IT consultants from almost every IT-area to organizations. Additionally, EPICO also has specialized business units which are: Business intelligence, Data Warehouse, Cloud and Analytics (DCA), newly graduated and young IT consultants (EPICO NextGen), nearshore IT resources (Poland), and recruitment of IT specialists for permanent employment (EPICO Search).

Read more about EPICO-IT A/S: www.epico.dk