As Senior Category Manager within our high performing UK & Ireland Business Unit you will gain significant insight into customers and shoppers for designated accounts and drive into the account strategy...

...owning the commercial plan ensuring successful delivery of the Western European strategy to the UK team and coordinating it through to completion. What we would like to see in this role is an in-depth category management background and a strong strategy focus.If you would love to work within a collaborative, and highly successful team, where you are empowered to be creative, drive performance and prioritise personal development then apply!

Core Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver our Integrated Commercial Plan [ICP] and Channel Strategy (40%)

• Driving Sales Processes (40%)

• Account meetings, support and presentations (20%)

Play your part in our team succeeding

This position provides with the opportunity to help us inspire the Builders of tomorrow. It offers an in-depth understanding of Toy Category, Shopper behaviour, consumer path to purchase and retailer landscape across the UK Market. The role provides exposure and collaboration with a wide range of key partners within the organisation at local, and regional level such as Customer Development Regional Teams, B2B Ecommerce Center of Excellence, Local Ecommerce and Sales Teams as well as our global Market and Commercial Development function, all if which can be seen as long-term development focus areas and all that sit within the UK.

Do you have what it takes?

• Degree level or relevant and demonstrated experience

• High level of Category Management experience and commercial understanding preferably in the FMCG or Retail space

• Strategically strong with a pragmatic approach to wider business challenges

• Excellent communication and networking skills with strong analytical capabilities and how to deliver the data to commercial leaders

• Significant Exposure to joint business planning and an understanding of contingency planning in a fast-paced and data driven environment

• Understanding of UK retail landscape and how shopper behave working with insight to build a picture

• A natural presenter of commercial data

• Interpersonal and creative problem solving skills

• Excellent computer skills – across all Microsoft packages (advanced Excel, word and PowerPoint)

• Knowledge and experience with agile project management methodology is an advantage in this role

• Ability to travel to and from customer sites is essential (all UK based)

• English fluency both written and spoken is essential

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.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.

Bringing it to life

You will join a team of 5 focused, brave and curious colleagues, whose mission is to design and deliver our UK Channel strategy, leading to outstanding Retailer execution, taking LEGO and the Toy Category to the next level