About the Role
As a Director, Technical Program Management, you will play a pivotal leadership role in the LEGO Group's Digital transformation. Working across Product, Engineering, and alongside Digital Technology leadership, you will help execute the future operating model for technology delivery as we embrace AI-enabled and agentic ways of working. This role is responsible for creating alignment across senior stakeholders, translating strategic ambition into executable transformation plans, and ensuring the successful adoption of new ways of working across the Digital Technology organization.
Responsibilities
- Drive the Digital Transformation: Facilitate alignment among senior DT leadership on the future Digital Product Development Life Cycle (DPDLC). Transform strategic goals into actionable roadmaps and ensure coherence across workstreams, balancing vision with practical execution.
- Lead complex organizational change: Align multiple stakeholders to embrace new delivery models and ways of working. Facilitate leadership discussions on evolving our operating model. Proactively manage risks, dependencies, and impacts to ensure smooth transitions.
- Lead the Program’s TPM capability: Provide indirect leadership, coaching and direction to the TPM capability supporting the transformation, establishing high standards for program leadership, stakeholder engagement and transformation delivery. Foster continuous improvement and champion AI-enabled practices, enhancing the TPM capability across the program.
- Drive cross-functional alignment: Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Digital Technology leaders to align priorities and drive transformation outcomes. Establish governance for transparency and effective decision-making. Resolve complex cross-functional challenges and manage competing priorities. Influence senior stakeholders to build commitment across diverse groups without formal authority.
- Enable AI-powered delivery transformation: Collaborate with technology and business leaders to redefine delivery practices using AI and agentic capabilities. Supporting the identification of opportunities to enhance effectiveness through AI-enabled workflows and ensure changes are practical and scalable. Serve as a thought leader in evolving delivery management within an AI-augmented environment.
Requirements
- Passionate about driving large-scale organizational transformation and helping people navigate change successfully.
- Proven experience leading complex cross-functional programmes and/or operating model transformations in large organizations.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing senior leaders and building alignment across competing perspectives.
- Outstanding facilitation skills, comfortable leading workshops and decision forums with Director, VP and SVP-level stakeholders.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution and delivery discipline.
- Strong communication skills, capable of simplifying complex concepts and creating compelling transformation narratives.
- Good understanding of modern software delivery, product development and engineering operating models.
- Strong understanding of program governance, risk management, dependency management and transformation planning.
- Comfortably operating in ambiguity and creating clarity for others.
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive outcomes in highly matrixed environments.
Skills
- Technical Program Management
- Digital Transformation
- AI-enabled workflows
- Stakeholder Management
- Facilitation
- Strategic Thinking
- Execution and Delivery Discipline
- Communication
- Program Governance
- Risk Management
- Dependency Management
- Transformation Planning
- Influencing without Authority
Location
- Billund, DK
- Copenhagen, DK
- London, UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Director Specialist
- No people responsibility
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 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.
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.
