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About the Role
As Director, Global Portfolio Strategy & Planning, you will work at the center of the global RD organization, connecting strategy, commercial and financial insight, portfolio priorities, and executive decision-making to enable efficient planning and delivery of RD programs aligned to strategy and prioritization. You will bring together insight, constructive challenge, and structure to help Retail Development leaders make informed decisions and turn ambition into actionable priorities. Sitting on the Global Retail Development Leadership Team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping what matters most across existing and new markets, new store formats, design evolution, real estate strategy, and global rollouts. You will create clarity across investment, cost, value, capacity, risk, and opportunity, ensuring senior leaders are aligned on the decisions required and the implications of those choices. This is a highly influential role for a commercially minded strategic leader who can move confidently between the numbers and the narrative, shaping the roadmap, challenging assumptions, connecting priorities, and enabling the Global Retail Development organization to make more informed, faster decisions.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the VP of Global Retail Development and the Global Retail Development Leadership Team to shape the function's strategic agenda, translate priorities into an integrated multi-year roadmap, and maintain clarity on the choices and trade-offs required to deliver it.
- Define and embed clear principles for prioritizing RD portfolios and programmes, balancing value, strategic alignment, feasibility, and delivery capacity to guide investment and resource decisions.
- Bring strong commercial and financial rigor to Retail Development decisions, with a clear understanding of store development economics, CapEx/OpEx, cost drivers, and investment returns. Challenge assumptions, strengthen business cases, and enable informed decisions on where and how we invest.
- Create a holistic view of the global RD investment portfolio, connecting store development costs, budgets, forecasts, benefits, and value delivery. Identify trends, risks, and opportunities and provide the insight needed to optimize spend and improve return across markets and formats. Lead yearly RD resource planning, in partnership with functional heads.
- Turn complex strategic, operational, and financial information into clear executive narratives, recommendations, and decision materials for VPs and senior leaders. Anticipate the questions that matter, surface implications early, and drive alignment around key decisions. Own the Quarterly RD Review with M&C Leaders, bringing together progress, priorities, and key decisions to drive alignment and clear follow-up actions.
- Connect global, regional, and functional perspectives across Retail Development, Finance, Real Estate, Operations, and commercial teams, ensuring priorities, dependencies, and decisions are understood and aligned across the organization.
- Establish the right governance, cadence, and visibility across the RD portfolio, ensuring strategic priorities translate into disciplined execution while maintaining clear oversight of progress, risk, investment, and outcomes.
Requirements
- Significant experience in retail, real estate, store development, or a closely related environment, with the ability to connect growth strategy, physical retail development, and commercial performance.
- Deep understanding of store development economics and investment decision-making, including CapEx/OpEx, development costs, budgets, forecasts, business cases, and return on investment. Able to confidently challenge and interpret the financial assumptions behind major retail investments.
- Proven ability to assess competing priorities, evaluate investment trade-offs, and create a clear portfolio view that enables senior leaders to make informed choices on resources, sequencing, and value.
- Exceptional ability to synthesize complex information into concise, compelling recommendations and executive-level materials, with the judgment to distinguish what senior leaders need to know, decide, and act on.
- Demonstrated credibility operating with VPs, senior directors, and cross-functional leadership teams, able to constructively challenge, build alignment, and influence decisions without relying on formal authority.
- Comfortable operating across geographies, functions, and time zones in a fast-moving environment, balancing strategic thinking with enough proximity to the detail to understand implications, risks, and delivery realities.
Skills
- Retail Development Strategy
- Commercial Leadership
- Retail Finance
- Store Development Economics
- Investment Decision-Making
- CapEx/OpEx Management
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- Business Case Development
- Return on Investment Analysis
- Strategic Portfolio Management
- Investment Management
- Executive Communication
- Strategic Storytelling
- Stakeholder Management
- Influence
- Global Leadership
- Organisational Agility
Location
- London, UK
Work Type
- Full-time
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Director
Benefits
- Family Care Leave
- Life and disability insurance
- Wellbeing resources and benefits
- Colleague Discount
- Bonus scheme
- Relocation assistance
- Visa assistance
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. 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.
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.