Senior Product Manager - Retail planning & operation

Job Description

How would you like to lead the development of the product vision and strategy for overall retail planning capabilities in the LEGO Group?

We’re looking for a seasoned Product Manager here at The LEGO Group to lead an evolution of integrated digital planning capabilities supporting Consumer Sales, Sell-In, and Merch Financial Planning. This role sits at the intersection of commercial strategy, retail planning, and digital product execution. 

Core Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Retail Planning product portfolio, ensuring alignment between business priorities, operating model changes, and technology investments.  

• Partner with senior business stakeholders to define strategy, priorities, and value realization across Retail Planning, Global Inventory, and Merchandise Financial Planning capabilities.  

• Lead discovery and product strategy for complex business problems, translating them into scalable digital capabilities and measurable business outcomes.

• Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Data Science, and business functions to manage dependencies and deliver end-to-end value across the retail planning supply chain.  

• Establish clear product vision, roadmaps, and investment cases that support long-term business objectives and portfolio prioritization.  

• Identify opportunities to improve planning efficiency, inventory productivity, and decision-making through data-driven products and process transformation.  

• Influence and shape future operating models by connecting business processes, governance, data, and technology into coherent solutions.  

• Ensure successful adoption and value realization by partnering closely with business process owners and change stakeholders throughout delivery.  

• Represent the product area in senior leadership forums, providing clear recommendations, trade-offs, risks, and investment implications.  

• Coach and elevate product thinking across cross-functional teams, helping drive a culture of outcomes, experimentation, and continuous improvement. 

Play your part in our team succeeding

Reporting to the Product Director, Shopper Product. The position supports live enterprise tools powering the backbone of the LEGO Retail. Success requires driving adoption, stabilizing operations, and continuously improving planning outcomes while balancing innovation with operational reliability. 

The role ensures planning systems enable long range theme and location level financial planning, detailed plan tension management, and aligned KPI planning across LEGO.com and owned retail stores. 

Do you have what it takes?

• Extensive experience working in a Product Management position/s, including ownership of complex enterprise or operational products.  

• Previous experience working in a retail, direct to consumer organisation.

• Proven ability to define product strategy and translate business objectives into measurable outcomes and roadmaps.  

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior business and technology leaders in matrix organizations.  

• Experience leading discovery, prioritization, and investment decisions for large-scale digital transformation initiatives.  

• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and drive alignment across multiple teams, functions, and dependencies.  

• Strong commercial and analytical mindset, with the ability to build business cases and quantify value realization.  

• Experience working closely with Engineering, Data, and Design teams to deliver scalable digital products.  

• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, capable of simplifying complex topics for executive audiences. 

Not essential, nice to have!

• Experience in Retail, Supply Chain, Inventory Management, Planning, Merchandising, or Financial Planning domains.  

• Experience with planning platforms (e.g. o9, Blue Yonder, SAP IBP, Anaplan, Kinaxis, etc.).  

• Experience driving operating model transformation and business process modernization.  

• Experience working in global organizations with multiple stakeholder groups and regions. 

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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