Senior Sustainability Insights Manager

Would you like to play your part in shaping a sustainable future with one of the world’s most iconic brands? In this role, you will lead the charge in developing thought leadership content and strategic insights to guide The LEGO Group's sustainability journey. Your expertise will help anticipate global trends, synthesize complex information, ensure our efforts are grounded in the latest science and inform decision‑making at the highest levels.

Core Responsibilities

• Develop thought leadership content, reports, and presentations to help us anticipate future sustainability trends, developments and the latest science to inform decision making.
• Monitor and analyze global sustainability, ESG, and climate‑related trends, research and peer activity across a range of sustainability topics (e.g. sustainable materials, carbon emissions, circular business models, water).
• Synthesize complex information into clear, forward‑looking insights and strategic briefings.
• Develop scenario planning, risk mapping, and foresight exercises and support with relevant data.
• Engage with external partners, platforms, and forums to stay connected to emerging themes.
• Support awareness of sustainability trends and insights in the executive leadership team through analysis, insights and presentations.
• Manage contracts and internal contact to legal and others for partnerships.

We’re playing our part in building a sustainable future, and we’re on a journey to make our products increasingly more sustainable. Sustainability represents a strategic driver for our operating environment which is increasingly material and at the same time increasingly complex and fast changing. This role plays a crucial role in making sure that the future direction for the LEGO group is based on solid understanding of sustainability trends and insights as well as help improving the ability to anticipate trends and future the direction in which we are moving. You will collaborate with several internal collaborators such as our Global Insights platform, Public Affairs and all functional sustainability areas and their leadership.

Do you have what it takes?

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant area for understanding societal development such as sociology or other social sciences.
• Proven work experience, proven experience in trend analysis, sustainability strategy, ESG research and consumer research preferably with hands on experience with scenario planning and foresights methods.
• Proven track record in building insights programs.
• Strong research and analytical skills using both qualitative and quantitative methods, with the ability to filter signal from noise.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills—verbal, visual, and written, including extensive experience preparing executive-level presentations.
• Familiarity with and experience using key ESG standards, carbon accounting approaches, climate policy developments, and global sustainability frameworks.
• Strategic approach with a passion for systems thinking and long‑term impact.
• Good interpersonal skills with ability to collaborate and influence.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

• 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.
• Wellbeing – We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• 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.
• 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.

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 highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and encourages applicants from all backgrounds (e.g. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team. 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.