Core Responsibilities:

• Store planning: Responsible for the monthly store build-up plans that drive our by store/by country/by region financial planning. You will look at trends like footfall, conversion and AOV as lead indicators and will collaborate closely with store operations, the planning team and finance to set the annual financial targets.

• LEGO®.com financial retail planning: You will be responsible for monthly LEGO.com plan & validations, and country level breakdowns. Take us on a journey where we explore bottom up country level trends, and how those lead to a perspective on the total expected sales for online channels across Europe. Close collaboration with the Planning team and commercial channel owners is key.

• Translating shopper trends to planning insight and assumptions: Within the planning team, be the key person looking at shopper data and trends like retention, pcs per order, and new shoppers. Model out potential implications and forward looking demand models based on these.

• Risk & Opportunities: Drive and deliver various “what if” scenarios based on retail insights and secure alignment to scenarios and drive for understanding and likelihood.

• Theme flows: From a retail planning lens, looking at recent trends and drivers, have a perspective on the future looking at theme growth and financial/pcs plans. Validate your plans with item forecasters to secure joint understanding and the highest level of accuracy in forecasts.

• Collaboration & Coherence. Ensure global collaboration and coherence with team members in other regions. Discuss and present data and findings with item level forecasters to secure a joint view on the best possible plan.

• Other/Ad hoc: Various analysis and project work. Potentially also weekly split of demand plans (pending project decision, price indexing and roll up of total toplines for the region).

Play your part in our team succeeding!

The retail planning team is a global team based in 4 locations: Enfield, Shanghai, London and Billund. We are responsible for the +18 Month demand plan globally across LEGO® owned branded channels, both physical stores and online. We plan a +14Bdkk annual turnover and have been experiencing hyper-growth in recent years.

The team develops regional by-item and channel plans with strong global ties that you will need to build and leverage where meaningful. In this role you will take an analytical and commercial retail lens to planning. You will build up store and country level plans based on trends and assumptions. These will serve as valuable inputs in terms of balancing item level forecasts towards financial plans with the most accurate output, thereby meeting the customer requirements with balanced risk.

Do you have what it takes?

We are looking for a candidate with a minimum of five years planning and analytical experience from a direct retailing business, ideally operating both physical stores and online sales, selling direct to the customer. You will have an excellent analytical mindset and can oversee a large amount of data and draw out patterns and key messages. You will have a well-rounded understanding of retail terminology and processes like financial planning, conversion rates, retention, AOV etc.

In addition, we expect that you have:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree within a relevant field, e.g. Business or supply chain management. You may also have a background in a commercial sector with a flair for processes, numbers and understanding an end to end business process.

• Proven strong collaboration skills across functions, cultures and management levels. Experience working at regional level in a retail environment with local sales locations.

• Strong experience working with Excel/Tableau/Power BI and making it an enabler.

• Strong communication skills. You have the ability to speak in detailed, technical terms with demand planners and marketers, and can communicate this in a concise way to senior leaders.

• A process focused and systematic approach. You get energy from establishing ways of working, new frameworks and ensuring process governance and adherence to these.

• Result orientation and drive, with a winning mindset that thrives in overcoming complex situations.

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.

Build your career brick by brick at The LEGO Group.

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