Are you passionate about retail and curious about helping The LEGO Group shape our store expansion agenda?

This role play’s an integral part in the growth of LEGO Retail stores around the globe. Use your strategy leadership, strong commercial expertise, and outstanding communication skills to influence store expansion decisions at the highest levels!

Core responsibilities

•Support the development of a strategic roadmap for our branded channels for key priority markets and map the end game potential

•Drive the development of new store business cases to secure funding and approval for new owned & operated retail stores

•Be the retail point of contact and drive alignment and collaboration of budgets and store recipe cards with key partners when opening new stores

•Develop tools & processes to improve the store approval process and deliver efficiencies

•Collaborate across multiple teams and functions to drive critical projects, strategy formulation and problem-solving

•Develop and deliver presentations to audiences ranging from business line partners to senior executives

•Lead location planning projects for market groups with key strategic partner Geolytix

•Build and document the key expansion processes

Play your part in our team succeeding

The role reports to the Director of Global Retail Channel Planning, you will be the first hire into an evolving and expanding team. We have an ambitious corporate strategy agenda over the next three years and store expansion will be a key component of that growth. You will be responsible for supporting the growth of LEGO Retail by implementing store business cases and partnering with key functions such as Market and Commercial Development (MCD), BI, Finance to ensure a robust and coherent approach to market and channel expansion.

Do you have what it takes?

The successful candidate is ambitious, entrepreneurial, and commercially savvy and comes with significant experience from within a FMCG/CPG company or top-tier management consulting company. Ideally, you have retail expansion experience in a similar role, in the FMCG/CPG industry. It goes without saying that you also have:

•Outstanding quantitative and analytical skills that allow you to extract logic, insights, and meaningful conclusions from complex business problems

•Excellent communication skills, allowing you to structure documents and quantitative analysis as well as PowerPoint presentations for executive level communications

•Extensive experience in consumer-packaged goods/ management consulting, plus experience in developing retail strategy with a focus on offline expansion.

•Strong drive for ensuring data integrity

•Ability to summarise abstract ideas clearly and independently manage project objectives

•Understanding of global retail industry

•Takes initiative, recognises, and acts on opportunities

•Thrives and contributes best in a team setting

•Track record of cross-functional collaboration

Hear from our Director of Channel Planning…

Build your career in one of the most trusted and loved brands in the world. It is a fun challenge to be a part of the planning and execution of retail stores and bringing them to life. The retail stores provide a great introduction to the LEGO brand, its products, and anchors shoppers to LEGO as the fun and educational toy brand.

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 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.

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