Strategy Partner, Markets & Channels

Job Description

Are you passionate about driving the strategic agenda for our Global Markets & Channels team?

Use your strategic flair, strong commercial expertise, and outstanding communication skills to influence decisions at the highest levels of the LEGO Group!

Core Responsibilities:

• Support the Markets & Channels team as a strategy and commercial partner to drive the mobilization and execution of our strategy and business plans

• Drive commercial projects both at the regional and global level to help meet our ambitious objectives

• Collaborate across multiple teams and functions from strategy formulation and problem-solving through to ensuring effective deployment and execution

• Constructively challenge partners and provide strategic sparring to market group leaders on strategic challenges and issues to improve leadership decisions

• Analyze and assess future trends (threats and opportunities) in the marketplace to drive the strategic decision process, solve ad hoc analytical assignments, prepare presentations and decision documents

• Play an active role in partnering with the Market & Channels strategy partners, including in global initiatives, cascading global direction, team capability-building and knowledge/insights-sharing

• Lead strategic engagements from framing strategic problems through executing analysis, driving to insights, and packaging findings to inspire change within the organization

• Develop and deliver presentations to audiences ranging from business line partners to C-level executives

Play your part in our team succeeding!

The role reports to the Strategy Partner for our CCO and Head of the Markets & Channel Strategy Partners, and is part of a team of 7 colleagues who all act as strategic partners to the heads of our market groups globally.

We ensure a coherent and clear implementation of the global group priorities and commercial projects in our markets, while also leading the market group leadership teams in the definition and delivery of the strategic priorities critical to our regions.

Do you have what it takes?

• Solid track of experience (inclusive of experience gained in a top-tier strategy consultancy firm and ideally, added experience in similar roles within the FMCG / CPG industry or digital experience).

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

• You are ambitious, entrepreneurial, and commercially savvy.

• You have excellent communication skills, allowing you to structure documents and quantitative analysis as well as PowerPoint presentations for executive level communication.

The position can be based either in Prague, Czech Republic or London, UK. If the candidate is based in London, please, note that around 30-40 travelling days a year are required. Relocation assistance is available to candidates who are willing to relocate to Prague.

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 and if eligible, you\’ll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

• Your 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.