Strategy Partner for the Executive Leadership Team

Job Description

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Do you want to put your end-to-end strategic capabilities to work in shaping the future of the LEGO Group’s Corporate strategy?

Then bring your outstanding skills in business partnering, problem solving & communication to support our Executive Leadership Team and their leadership teams on their strategic agenda!

Core Responsibilities

As part of the Strategy & Transformation function, you will become member of our Strategy Partner Team of 7 colleagues. The role reports into VP, Strategy & Transformation.

Specifically, you will:

• Work closely with the CXO to drive the strategic agenda in their area
• Collaborate with the other Strategy Partners and across functions to drive critical projects, strategy formulation and problem-solving
• Constructively challenge and provide sparring to senior leaders on strategic challenges to improve leadership decisions
• Translate the CXO strategy into simple and clear communication for the CXO to share with the senior leadership group and organization
• Prepare materials on behalf of the CXO that go to the Executive Leadership Team and Board of Directors for input and / or decision-making
• Ensure strategic initiatives progress and track well
• Support CXO on ensuring their leadership team meeting is run well and the broader leadership team of respective area with preparation ahead of senior meetings

Play your part in our team succeeding

Working for the CXO, you will work closely with their leadership teams & broader organisation. You will help run the CXO Leadership Team meetings and support their strategic agenda while also engaging with your peer Strategy partners to drive cross functional collaboration & end to end thinking.

Do you have what it takes?

The successful candidate comes with a Masters’ degree in Economics, Business Administration/ Management, or a similar field combined with extensive professional experience. This includes:

• Outstanding business partnering skills at an executive level and an ability to build a strong network within the organization
• Vast experience working for a top tier consultancy and/or working for a global, cooperate company with deep functional expertise of the area
• Ability to break down complexity and communicate it to executive leaders and a large organization Top-notch quantitative and analytical skills that allow you to extract logic, insights and meaningful conclusions from complex business problems
• Time spent with an international company working with key stakeholders across different markets, preferably in a strategic capacity
• Ability to collaborate effectively with global colleagues including working with different cultures, in different timezones and in different formats (online and offline)
• Excellent communication skills, enabling you to structure documents and quantitative analysis turning them into convincing storylines and presentations for executive level interaction
• A ‘can do’-attitude to ensure things are acted upon in a fast-paced environment

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to 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.
• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
• 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, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.
• Your workplace – Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.

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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

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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