Product Manager - Long Term Demand Planning
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- London, United Kingdom
- Job ID
- 0000015244
- Category
- Project / Program Management
Job Description
Are you ready to join an impactful team and take part of the digital transformation in Operations? Are you willing to collaborate with a dedicated Product Management team where you can have a significant impact on the performance of a leading toy brand, and its customers? Then, come and join us!
Core Responsibilities
Develop a daring and clear product vision and communicate it optimally to relevant partners and collaborators, so they’re aligned, invested and passionate about LEGO’s strategic direction
Translate business strategic goals into a prioritised product roadmap, identifying and generating new insights that grow market share, drive commercial and business value and improve colleague or customer experience
Gain the key outcomes that the business wants to achieve, the timeline and the metrics that will ultimately define the product’s success. Define the quarterly product objectives and key results in-line with these strategic goals.
Identify and communicate the value releases to the business in-line with the product roadmap
Lead product discovery with the team, researchers, and wider partners to develop, experiment and test new insights that help shape the value proposition
Working with UX specialists, integrate usability studies and research into product requirements to improve user satisfaction and ensure user centred design
Ensure communication around priorities, developments and changes are clearly understood by partners across the business
Take ownership for crafting user stories, and ensure there are sufficient number of user stories that have been refined and estimated by the team for upcoming sprints
Successfully identify risks and mitigations that remove risk and uncertainty early in product development
Act as a subject matter expert in Supply Chain, providing insight, context and additional information as needed to help understanding of what is required.
Play your part in our team succeeding
This role plays a critical part in modernising our Supply Chain and Demand Planning capabilities with the digital products optimising the demand planner experience as we fulfil the needs of our customers around the world.
A Product Manager at The LEGO GROUP is accountable for the success of their product, setting the product vision and strategy in close alignment with their partners and supported by dedicated teams of Engineers, Digital Designers, Architects and Agile Coaches, amongst others.
Do you have what it takes?
Good knowledge of the business domain and technology landscape in Demand Planning
A phenomenal communicator and ability to clearly articulate the problem, collecting requirements and communicating proposed solutions
Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams from tech, design and business to create an aligned product vision
Ability to understand and draw out key themes and trends from analysis of customer and market data
Technically curious, with a good understanding of software development practices and web/mobile technologies
Able to make and take ownership for decisions at a fast pace
Skilled at working effectively with cross functional teams in a matrixed organisation
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Great at providing feedback in a way that is both specific, constructive and substantial
Confirmed experience in developing and maintaining solutions in an agile, DevOps environment
A consistent track record of leading cross-functional agile teams through the full product life cycle
Knowledge of SAP, and/or other SCM solutions an advantage
Experience in leading products at scale within an Enterprise context also advantageous
What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to 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.
Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
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.
Your 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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.
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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