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Producer (Innovation), 12-month contract

• Location London, United Kingdom

• Job ID 0000021331

• Category Project / Program Management

Job Description

Bring the back-end operational support to the capabilities of our Creative Play Lab (innovation department) to help shape the future of play.

The LEGO Group is looking for a resourceful, proactive, and meticulous Producer with experience of front-end physical product innovation to support our capability teams in their work.

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

• Establish and manage relationships with global vendors – Work alongside our procurement, legal and finance teams to organise budgets, Statements of Work, onboarding, purchase orders, consent forms, NDAs, GDPR, etc. for our external agencies and freelancers.

• Lead capability team operations – Lead teams in operational problem solving, sourcing experimental materials and equipment, shipping prototypes globally and implementing capability initiatives.

• Take ownership of kids testing – Own all operational aspects of our global kids testing programme by working with our recruitment vendors, setting up test environments, organising incentives, consent, NDAs, safeguarding, risk assessments, GDPR compliance, etc.

• Spearhead team budgeting – Lead teams in planning their yearly Activity Build Ups (ABUs), take ownership of meeting internal deliverables in line with our financial calendar and be the first point of contact regarding budget tracking and cost questions.

• Manage and maintain our physical spaces – Spearhead initiatives to optimize our space so it empowers teams to do their best work including organizing maintenance of the audio-visual technology, mics, camera’s etc in our kids testing space.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Creative Play Lab is the innovation engine within the LEGO Group, imagining radically new ways to play with the LEGO brick and pioneering the future of play.

The Producer role works cross-functionally to support multiple capabilities, helping empower the teams to do their best work. The objective is to ‘give time back’ to our specialists by taking a range of planning, organisational, operational, logistical and administrative tasks away from them while facilitating world class project planning and exceptional communications.

By working across multiple teams Producers are well placed to implement systems to improve velocity and quality across the Creative Play Lab – highlighting opportunities for collaboration and alignment and then leading teams through to the execution of these new initiatives.

Do you have what it takes?

Experience and track record are more relevant than specific education. We would love to meet applicants from a diverse set of backgrounds.

• Several years of experience working in Project Management and/or Operations Management in the field of Innovation/Research/Recruitment/Product Design.

• Experience in front-end innovation for physical products in an environment with frequent pivoting and abundant uncertainty.

• Determination to learn and deeply understand our processes then the conviction to work within the ‘red tape’ and defend these processes and policies when under pressure to execute.

• Disciplined and pragmatic in coordinating multiple stakeholder requirements, turning ideas into actionable next steps, defining clear deadlines and responsibilities.

• Organised and capable of managing a very large number of operational task flows at once.

• Flexibility in working hours as research sessions often happen in the afternoons and evenings. Ability to work on-site at the London office an average of 3 days per week.

• Able to inject energy and passion into organisation, operations, logistics and processes. Resilient and persistent when investigating solutions to hard operational challenges.

• Able to work fast and effectively within our platforms including Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, Coupa and SAP.

• Adaptable and empathetic, able to work with a large range of different personality types.

• Written and spoken proficiency in English required.

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Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can 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.

Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.

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 and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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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