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Senior Manager, Circular Product Design

• Location

• Billund, Denmark

• London, United Kingdom

• Job ID 0000017892

• Category Communications & Corporate Affairs

Job Description

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We are playing our part in building a sustainable future. We’re on a journey to make our products and packaging continuously more sustainable, e.g., by improving our materials and designs.

As Senior Manager in Circular Product Design you will be part of a team that sets the strategic direction for sustainable products and packaging. Your focus will be on products from a design perspective. You will be responsible for delivering our Circular Product Design Strategy, while also developing internal Sustainability and Circularity Standards, and leading Strategic Projects on the topic.

Core Responsibilities

To succeed in the role, you bring a mix of deep knowledge on circular product design and sustainability, and you have successfully worked with circular design from a strategic perspective before. You find yourself proficient in topics like circular systems thinking, and products with embedded electronics, and you can build and embed a cohesive circular design strategy that bridges high sustainability ambitions and commercial logic.

In combination, you have a proven record of strong project management capabilities and very strong people and communications skills. You approach work analytically and outcome driven and understand that collaboration is always the best approach.

In this role you will:

• Lead the development of our Circular Product Design Strategy in close collaboration with internal and external partners to set a measurable ambition and the plan to reach the ambition

• Drive strategic projects linked to circular product design in close collaboration across the business with areas such as Operations, Product Designers, and the Circular Business Models team

• Develop internal sustainability standards on sustainable and circular product design

• You will be responsible for different strategic projects with the purpose to develop clear recommendations on circular product design for senior leaders in the company

Play your part in our team succeeding

You will be part of an ambitious team that enables us to deliver more sustainable and circular products and packaging through strategic direction setting and concrete mentorship and standards.

Do you have what it takes?

• Science based background within environmental sustainability

• Deep experience working with environmental sustainability. Previous experience with circular product design in a corporate environment is preferred

• Strong Project Management and communications skills with an analytical approach.

• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to influence and collaborate

• Proven strategic approach with flair for simplifying complexities and seeing the bigger picture while paying attention to detail

• Experience with electronic embedded products including batteries is preferred

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 minority backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. 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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