About the Role
We are seeking a highly skilled SAP key user to join our Order Management Team to enhance customer experience and support business growth in LEGO® Japan. This role involves daily operations for key accounts and project work related to our digital transformation.
Responsibilities
- Pro-active order entry for launches, campaigns, and bundles.
- Facilitate, modify, and improve order management processes, including pre-order support.
- Support customer claims and returns, including investigation and processing.
- Manage supply allocation process during constrained supply.
- Report on inventory levels, identify out-of-stock and closed items, and communicate to the team.
- Follow up on overdue items and variances on quotations.
- Provide fill rate reporting to customers and internally.
- Handle customer-specific requests such as end-of-month reconciliation and palletization schematics.
- Optimize and counsel customer inventory based on stock and CS data.
- Govern the Order to Cash process.
- Maintain master data in SAP, EDI, Web B2B, and customer portals.
- Become a subject matter expert in product and customer master data for the Japan business unit.
- Act as the local lead for order processing automation projects (SAP HANA, B2B web shop, EDI, Contents Hub, approval engine).
- Lead projects as a local key user to support interface creation from internal tools to order processing tools.
- Manage the impact of new interfaces on various Order Management, Master Data, Customer Operations, and Ops tools.
- Collaborate with internal and external resources on fit-gap analysis, system design, specification mapping, SIT/UAT, and Go-live support.
- Continuously improve order processes.
- Support business with on-demand analysis and reporting.
- Assist GM, Operations Director, and Order Management Manager with business presentations.
- Invest in self-development through an Individual Development Plan.
- Participate in and drive projects within Japan and the wider APAC organization.
- Drive team motivation and culture with curiosity, bravery, and focus.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of experience working in a cross-functional environment within a multinational corporation.
- Experience in a cross-border organization.
- Advanced knowledge and experience of supply-chain operational procedures, specifically in Order Management and Master Data.
- Highly skilled in SAP SD module, with experience as a key user in ERP projects.
- Ability to exercise discretion and independent judgment in problem-solving.
- Proficient in timely multi-task management with prioritization.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Office applications (Excel, PPT, Word, Outlook, Teams, Power BI).
- Ability to influence leadership through explanation of facts, policies, and practices.
- Japanese & English project management skills in a multi-national matrix organization.
- Staff management experience.
- Logistics and Distribution experience.
- Ability to think strategically while focusing on short-term tasks.
Skills
- SAP SD module
- Order Management
- Master Data Management
- Supply Chain Operations
- Project Management
- MS Office Suite (Excel, PPT, Word, Outlook, Teams, Power BI)
- Customer Claims and Returns
- Inventory Management
- Reporting and Analysis
- Process Improvement
- Automation Projects
- EDI
- B2B Web Shop
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Strategic Thinking
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Minimum 5 years
Benefits
- Family Care Leave
- Life and disability insurance
- Wellbeing resources and benefits
- Colleague Discount
- Bonus scheme
About the Company
- LEGO Japan is the sales organization of The LEGO Group responsible for sales activities in the Japan Market, with approximately 60 employees.
- The BU Operations team in Japan consists of Demand Planning, Customer Operations, and Order Management.
- The LEGO Group was founded by Ole Kirk Kristiansen in 1932, driven by resilience, innovation, and a permanent sense of renewal.
- The company's mission is to 'inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow'.
Equal Opportunity
- The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay.
- The company 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.
- 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.
