At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead global retail development programmes, ensuring timely and quality delivery.
- Company: Join a leading retail organisation driving transformation on a global scale.
- Benefits: Enjoy enhanced family care leave, life insurance, wellbeing resources, and generous discounts.
- Other info: Hybrid work model with opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Why this job: Shape the future of retail while collaborating with senior leaders and diverse teams.
- Qualifications: Proven leadership in retail with expertise in managing complex programmes.
The predicted salary is between 100000 - 150000 £ per year.
This is a rare opportunity for a senior leader to shape, prioritise, and drive the global retail development (RD) transformation agenda at scale. You will own and orchestrate the full portfolio of complex, cross functional programmes that power our physical retail growth across global branded channels. You will sit on the Global Retail Development Leadership Team, defining priorities, bringing precise prioritisation, strategic clarity and structured governance to a portfolio that spans new markets, new store formats, design evolution, real estate strategy and global rollouts. You will balance forward looking portfolio planning and resource optimisation with senior stakeholder alignment, acting as the single point of visibility for programme health, risks, capacity and outcomes. This is a fully empowered role for a strategic doer, someone who can shape the roadmap, challenge priorities, optimise global resources and relentlessly drive delivery.
Hybrid working week arrangement called Best of Both: 3 days in the office and 2 days from home. Relocation assistance is offered. Closing date for applications: Friday 10th July. Applications will be reviewed and shortlisted during this period.
Responsibilities
- Lead Complex Global Programmes - Drive end to end delivery of large scale, multi year retail programmes spanning expansion, real estate, operations and store development, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget and to the highest quality.
- Programme Governance & Risk Management - Establish and enforce robust governance frameworks, including stage gate management, escalation protocols and inter dependency oversight across regions.
- Strategic Planning & Portfolio Management - Translate Retail Development priorities into a clear, actionable multi year programme roadmap, making data driven decisions on resource allocation, investment trade offs and CapEx / OpEx optimisation.
- Executive Stakeholder Leadership - Act as a trusted advisor to senior directors, VPs and senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and providing clear, compelling updates on programme status, risks and value delivery.
- Cross Functional Collaboration - Operate independently across geographies and time zones, coordinating multiple priorities, aligning global, regional and market teams and ensuring seamless execution across the retail portfolio.
- People Leadership & Capability Building - Lead, develop and performance manage a high performing team, building strategic programme management capability to scale global Retail Development initiatives.
Qualifications
- Retail expertise and cross functional programme leadership - Experience at a leadership level in retail organisations with a strong track record of leading complex, multi year programmes across expansion, real estate, operations and store development.
- End to end programme ownership - Proven ability to own large scale global programme portfolios from concept through execution, ensuring delivery on time, on budget and to quality standards.
- Programme governance & risk management - Deep expertise in governance frameworks, stage gate management, escalation handling, go/no go decisions and managing cross regional dependencies.
- Commercial acumen & data driven decision making - Experience managing significant CapEx / OpEx budgets, evaluating business cases and making investment trade offs to optimise return.
- Senior stakeholder management & influence - Trusted advisor to senior leaders, with exceptional executive communication, presentation and relationship management skills.
- Global, fast paced delivery & people leadership - Comfortable working independently across geographies and time zones, managing multiple priorities while leading, developing and performance managing teams.
- Fluency in English - Both written and verbal.
Benefits
- Family Care Leave - Enhanced paid leave options for important times.
- Insurances - Life and disability insurance covering all colleagues.
- Wellbeing - Resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing, along with opportunities to build community.
- Colleague Discount - Generous discount available from day 1.
- Bonus - Rewarded through a bonus scheme when goals are reached and eligibility criteria met.
- Hybrid work policy - Average of 3 days per week in the office.
We are fully committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We are also fully committed to children's rights and child wellbeing worldwide. Candidates who will have high engagement with children are required to complete a child safeguarding background screening as a condition of the offer.
Director, Global Retail Development Portfolio & Programmes employer: 1034 LEGO Company Limited
As a leading global retailer, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic and inclusive work environment that empowers our employees to drive meaningful change. With a strong focus on professional development, our hybrid working model allows for flexibility while ensuring collaboration and innovation thrive. Join us to be part of a team that values your contributions and offers comprehensive benefits, including enhanced family care leave and a generous colleague discount from day one.
