Manager, Retail Growth, Performance Optimisation & Productivity

Job Description

Do you want to play a key role in further professionalising the retail capabilities of a world-class brand like LEGO? Do you think you have the determination to deliver incredible LEGO Brand and shopping experiences to shoppers and consumers all over the world? Then come join our Global Retail Excellence team working with our amazing LEGO Brand Retail stores across the world.

Core Responsibilities

• Proactively drive and own discrete analytical and performance improvement projects with the goal of strengthening brand and commercial performance as well as productivity of our global retail store portfolio.

• Actively support and drive store portfolio management and optimisation processes to support strategic decision making in LEGO Retail.

• Deliver impactful analyses and recommendations in close collaboration with key collaborators to identify and solve important challenges related to portfolio and store performance.

• Help connect critical data sources related to LEGO Branded Stores, extract meaningful learnings based on analysis and ultimately recommend and drive improvement initiatives that can improve customer experience, grow Like-for-Like sales , drive productivity and strengthen bottom-line.

• Drive a culture of data focused problem solving and performance improvement to our LEGO Branded Stores portfolio.

Play your part in our team succeeding

As part of the Global Retail Excellence team, you will build a strong understanding of our entire branded retail business and especially our LEGO Branded Stores portfolio, as well as drive critical analyses and projects related to portfolio and specific store performance as well as being a key part of executing on the team’s priority projects and recommendations to improve performance, drive growth and productivity for our store portfolio . By doing this you will help the LEGO Group build critical capabilities to help deliver on our ambitious strategy of making LEGO Branded Stores the pinnacle of shopping and brand experience for our shoppers and consumers.

You will help develop and elevate the foundation on which we build insights, derive learnings and structure action plans related to our global store portfolio, thus playing a key part in improvement programs and global initiatives with the goal of improving in-store experience and financial performance across the store portfolio.

Do you have what it takes?

• Confirmed work experience as a management consultant with strong exposure to physical retail within FMCG, CPG or a related industry or a strong background in retail strategy, operations development, productivity and similar disciplines within retail.

• Proven experience in business insights and problem solving, with ability to perform in-depth analysis, visualise data, synthesis results and develop strong recommendations to senior leaders.

• A commercial mindset coupled with a strong understanding of relevant systems and data platforms that support a retail business.

• Strong interpersonal communication and collaboration skills to ensure strong cross-team collaboration and drive execution of recommendations.

• Results-oriented and driven personality shown through proactively proposing new ways of working to optimise data driven decision making.

• Thrive with ambiguity and autonomy having to create solutions to problems in a dynamic setting.

• Ability to balance multiple projects simultaneously and interact with multiple partners across geographies .

• Proficient in English both in writing and verbal communication.

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?

Here is what you can 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.

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 seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.

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