Head of Centre of Excellence to Play Engineering at the LEGO Group

Are you an experienced Leader? Can you coach leaders and teams – and enable them to lead a high-performing organization that focuses both on innovation and Agile methodologies, as well as successful building and delivery activities? Do you want to be a part of the Play Engineering where seamlessly integrated digital build & play experiences are developed?

Core Responsibilities:

• Oversee, build and strengthen overall Play Engineering capabilities, productivity and performance & results
• Own and drive strategic planning & portfolio delivery plan and management across all projects/ products/ platforms across Play Engineering
• Drive people/ resource & financial overview, planning and estimates, (in collaboration with Finance and other stakeholders as relevant)
• Develop & drive talent strategy and operations (build/ buy/ borrow situations and decisions) across all domains
• Drive prioritization and productivity for Play Engineering leader team and the wider Play Engineering organisation
• Provide leadership, mentoring and coaching to the immediate team of business analysts/ specialists; engage, motivate and make sure team is led to perform at their best and strongly collaborate across the organisation
• Fulfil all relevant people leader responsibilities
• Optimize and improve Play Engineering tools & processes, internal and cross-functional with Creative Play Lab and other stakeholders
• Nurture a culture of experimentation, learning and fast adaptation
• Embrace complexity and make it a competitive advantage
• Develop and drive business proposals relevant to Play Engineering

Play your part in our team succeeding
This role is a key member of the Play Engineering Leadership Team, under the Creative Play Lab (CPL) organisation. CPL is part of the Product & Marketing Development (PMD) area.
Creative Play Lab leads Product & Marketing Innovation in the LEGO Group, with an agile mindset and abilities with the purpose of seizing opportunities fast, create pilots, dodging threats and stay relevant for kids and adults alike and create the best possible experiences for them.
We create innovative play experiences through the development software & hardware for complete life-cycle utilizing the newest technology with a dedicated focus on reusability and scalability in our technology platforms.
We work closely together with internal and external partners to enable build and play experiences with focus on innovating the play & build experience with new technology.
The build and play experience will be enabled in platforms that strategically will secure the LEGO Group a competitive advantage many years to come.
We are working with an agile mindset. We seek to enable our consumers with innovative play experiences. Our objective is to develop true LEGO® experiences by bridging physical and digital build and play experiences.

Do you have what it takes?
As Head of Centre of Excellence in the Play Engineering organisation you presumably have an education or relevant hands-on experience in Business Management/ Administration, Commerce, Organisational Psychology, Science, Information Technologies or other similar fields.
You have more than 10+ years of experience in coaching and/or building & leading cross-functional, high performing teams

In addition, you:
• Are a self-starter with a can-do attitude, excellent communication and motivational skills as well as the entrepreneurial spirit necessary to drive innovation & motivation in the team
• Ability to build strong trust and relationships; create open & safe spaces and culture where personal growth & development thrives
• Comfortable with conflict and skilled in facilitating resolution of conflict
• Articulate; has ability to speak candidly with respect
• Fluency in English
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Strategic and holistic thinker with attention to details
• Ability and willingness to travel as necessary (~10-20 days per year)

As a person you can navigate in an always changing environment and have strong resilience and stamina to thrive in complex, ambiguous, uncertain environments and drive team success.

Also, you are
• Knowledge of agile related theories and practices, such as Complexity Theory, Product Management & Discovery, Scrum, Lean, SAFe, LeSS, Cynefin, S3
• Radiates energy, passion and compassion
• Expert in understanding and navigating large, complex, multinational organisations with success through strong trust and relationships.

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 on +45 61 61 74 36.

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