Strategy Partner, Markets & Channels - #1800443

Job Description

Are you passionate about driving the strategic agenda for our global markets & channels and LEGO Retail?

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

Please note - we do not support relocation for this role.


Core Responsibilities

• Support Head of LEGO Retail as the strategy and commercial partner, co-creating strategy and business plans and helping to bring them to execution
• You will design and develop commercial strategies both to help meet our ambitious objectives
• Collaborate across multiple teams and functions to drive critical projects, strategy formulation and problem-solving through to ensuring effective deployment and execution
• Constructively challenge partners and provide strategic sparring to leaders on strategic challenges and issues to improve leadership decisions
• Lead the LEGO Retail leadership team meeting agenda, ensuring accurate strategic focus and follow-up
• Analyse 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 and 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 senior executives
  
  
  
  

Play your part in our team succeeding!

The role reports to the Head of Global Head of Commercial Strategy 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.

The position is based in London.

Do you have what it takes?

• +6 years of experience (inclusive of experience gained in a top-tier strategy consultancy firm and ideally, added experience in similar roles within the CPG / Retail industry
• 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.
  
  
  
  

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.

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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