Job Description

Are you passionate about driving portfolio transparency, governance, and decision-making across a global WS&O landscape?

This is an extraordinary opportunity to play a key role in the governance and operational steering of the global WS&O project portfolio. You will work closely with leaders, project teams, and key partners to enable informed decision-making, drive portfolio alignment, and ensure strong planning, reporting, and execution across a diverse portfolio of projects.

Please expect a delay in this recruitment process due to summer vacation. 

Core Responsibilities

In this new position, you will drive governance and reporting for a defined part of the global WS&O project portfolio, delivering high-quality weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting on portfolio progress, risks, capacity, and financial performance. More specifically, you will: 

• Drive project portfolio planning, prioritization, and follow-up across all WS&O-operated sites, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, funding boundaries, and delivery capacity.

• Work closely with leadership team members, internal stakeholders, business partners, and external suppliers, supporting annual planning processes and ongoing financial and performance reporting.

• Act as a key point of contact within WS&O, driving staffing alignment, planning, and execution of greenfield and larger brownfield projects together with program leads within the assigned geographical area. Through this engagement, you will build strong relationships to ensure transparency, alignment, and reliable portfolio information.

• Support the implementation of the WS&O strategy by contributing to portfolio structures, governance routines, and reporting processes within the agreed strategic scope.

• Collaborate closely with colleagues in the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) to ensure consistent standards, reporting practices, and ways of working across operations and engineering areas. 

• Contribute to the development of portfolio management practices by identifying improvement opportunities, sharing best practices, and supporting increased maturity across the broader PMO organisation.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The WS&O portfolio function is anchored in our Center of Excellence team, serving as the global entity ensuring cross-site operations, standardization, and development.

A part of the Center of Excellence is dedicated to Portfolio Management and operational steering. A smaller specialized section responsible for enabling transparency, alignment, “ONE TEAM” overview and strong governance across the project portfolio. 

You will act as a key link between leadership team members, engineering areas, and project and program teams - ensuring leaders have the insights needed to make informed decisions and supporting a unified portfolio approach across operations and the wider engineering organization.

Do you have what it takes?

The ideal candidate brings a relevant educational background in project management, business administration, engineering, or a closely related technical discipline that supports understanding of complex project portfolios and engineering environments. Training and/or certification in project, program, or portfolio management is preferred. Additionally, you bring: 

• Solid experience managing and/or supporting large-scale project portfolios within an engineering, technical, or industrial environment.

• Proven experience owning portfolio governance and reporting for a defined organizational area.

• Experience collaborating with Finance on portfolio planning, investment tracking, and reporting.

• Hands-on knowledge of portfolio, project, or performance management systems (PPMS, PPM tools, or similar).

• Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with project and program leads in a global, matrixed organization.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable, decision-ready insights.

• Structured, detail-oriented approach and the ability to work comfortably with high-value portfolios and sensitive data.

• Ability to visualize analyses and conclusions in a logical way through effective storytelling.

• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

It will be an advantage if you have:

• Experience working in a PMO or portfolio management team with shared ownership across functions.

• Background in large, production-based organizations with global portfolios and matrixed structures.

• Experience with continuous improvement methodologies.

• Strong facilitation, training, or change management capabilities.

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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.

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