Senior Manager, UK Production

Are you ready to make a significant impact on The LEGO Group's creative content production? Drive global campaigns, inspire a skilled production team, and bring bold film content and experiential ideas to life for one of the world's most iconic brands. Play your part in our team succeeding.

Our LEGO Agency (OLA) is the in-house creative agency of the LEGO Group responsible for bringing our global campaigns and content experiences to life. From film and digital content to brand activations, OLA helps share the LEGO story across every channel. We're now looking for a Senior Manager to lead and support our London production. In this role, you'll guide a team of skilled producers covering film content and experiential projects while collaborating closely with colleagues around the world. You'll act as the go-to leader for the London team (full-timers, contractors, and freelancers), helping them translate business needs into impactful creative experiences.

The ideal candidate is a confident people leader with strong production expertise, exceptional organizational skills, and the ability to build trust with collaborators at all levels. You'll bring critical thinking, empathy, and curiosity to every challenge while encouraging your team to push creative boundaries and grow their skills. If you are a great leader who thrives in a fast-paced global environment and enjoys turning bold creative ideas into reality, we'd love to hear from you.

Core Responsibilities:

• Support all London producers with their day-to-day challenges (Film content and activation producers).
• People leading responsibilities; including appraisals, abilities development, resourcing, and workload balance.
• Day-to-day conduit between our collaborators and OLA.
• Foster collaboration, communication, and a positive team dynamic leading to better results.
• Empower the team in their decision-making and project development.
• Work closely with Project management teams and wider OLA heads of department.
• Manage and support Senior Global Campaign Partners on driving more complex product-and branded-experiences when necessary.
• Develop strong relationships with our direct product-and/or brand-owner and key heads of departments in OLA.
• Support the Head of Production on new scope developments working collaboratively with other agency departments including OLA LT.
• Securing the necessary involvement of OLA Hubs to ensure that regional needs are being met.
• Collaborating with both internal and external agencies and other LEGO partners when necessary.
• Travel may be required.

Do you have what it takes?

• Wide experience as a Producer within a creative agency/brand with demonstrable and clear track record of successfully simultaneously running multiple brands whilst building strong client relationships and producing amazing creative experiences and content.
• Experience being a part of complex and globally distributed creative digital shopper/e-commerce or socially led programs.
• Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Strong business writing skills that include executive summaries, memos, pre-reads, briefs, and presentation materials.
• Comfortable working with collaborators at all levels of the organization.
• Maturity and ability to exercise high level of discretion with sensitive information.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office project management tools are required (Workfront etc.).
• Experience in project management and strategic planning including resourcing.
• Experience in Entertainment/Content Gaming segments will be favourable.
• Empathetic people leading.

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.

What are you waiting for? Apply now! No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

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 seeks to encourage 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. Just imagine building your dream career. Then make it real. Join the LEGO team today.