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About the Role

We are seeking a dynamic Senior Program Manager to support our Sr. Director of Environmental Sustainability in Procurement in shaping and executing long-term strategies for our Supplier Sustainability Program. You will play a vital role in strategic planning, budget management, and executive reporting, ensuring the program's success and alignment with key priorities. You will act as a strategic partner, facilitating cross-workstream collaboration and guiding project leads to achieve shared objectives.

Responsibilities

Provide support to Sr. Director of Environmental Sustainability to shape and execute the long-term strategy for the Supplier Sustainability Program, including future program direction, targets, and strategic priorities.
Support development of the annual strategic planning cycle, including annual development of program ambition, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Critical Operating Tasks (COTs), and roadmap, and coordinating submissions to meet key strategic planning milestones.
Support annual budget planning activities, including identifying future funding requirements and preparing budget submissions aligned with strategic priorities.
Prepare high-quality materials, insights, and executive reporting for senior leadership to communicate program progress, strategic decisions, risks, and recommendations.
Own the development, maintenance, and governance of the Supplier Sustainability Program Plan, ensuring alignment across workstreams, milestones, dependencies, KPIs, and strategic objectives.
Establish and manage this integrated Program Plan, providing regular progress updates, identifying risks and mitigation actions, and reporting status to senior leadership through established governance forums.
Manage program budgets throughout the financial year, providing regular forecasting, monitoring expenditure, and identifying risks, opportunities, or required budget adjustments.
Drive delivery of strategic supplier sustainability projects by aligning project plans, deliverables, and resource requirements to ensure successful execution.
Act as a thought partner to project leads across the Supplier Sustainability Program, providing program context, facilitating cross-workstream alignment, and supporting the team to navigate complexities, make informed decisions, and deliver against shared objectives.
Lead the Enable workstream within Supplier Sustainability Program, providing direction for program management, governance, and system development activities while ensuring alignment.
Develop and continuously improve program governance, operating models, and ways of working to support effective delivery, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration.
Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including procurement, environmental responsibility, and teams throughout the business to gain input on supplier sustainability initiatives and practices; assess relevance and initiative changes as needed.
Oversee the definition and implementation of system and process improvements, by supporting structured reviews, lessons learned, and process optimisation to strengthen program effectiveness and scalability.

Requirements

Minimum a handful of years' experience in project management, preferably within procurement, operations, or strategic consultancy for a global organization.
Experience in establishing and managing the implementation of new programs, processes and ways of working including underlining structures and systems.
Experience developing and delivering executive-level presentations, with ability to effectively lead meetings and workshops both internally and externally.
Passion for sustainability, with knowledge of environmental sustainability best practices with a focus on carbon reduction and supply base.
Detail-oriented, structured, and able to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to translate complex ideas and concepts into structured workplans, processes and presentations.
Ability to motivate and influence colleagues to deliver on ambitious objectives and collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
Flexibility to travel domestically and internationally as required.
Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Skills

Project management
Procurement
Operations
Strategic consultancy
Executive-level presentations
Meeting facilitation
Workshop facilitation
Sustainability
Environmental sustainability best practices
Carbon reduction
Supply base management
Program management
Governance
System development
Process improvement
Communication skills
Interpersonal skills
Stakeholder management

Location

Billund DK
London UK

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Benefits

Family Care Leave
Life and disability insurance
Wellbeing resources and benefits
Colleague Discount
Bonus scheme

About the Company

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 fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe.

Equal Opportunity

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.