Director, Head of Technical Program Management

Job Description

Ready for the next step as people leader? Then bring your passion for leading teams and driving strategic programs across tech teams by applying structure, transparency, and change – and strive for this position.

Let's bring leadership and program management experience together to advance our daring digital transformation into a product-led context.

Core Responsibilities

The Head of Technical Program Management (TPM) ensures timely delivery of digital Infrastructure and platform projects and programs. These are delivered by the TPM team.

• Leadership of TPM team.
• Leading implementation of large initiatives across products, within the Digital Platforms & Infrastructure (DPI) domain or across domains.
• Bringing people together in meaningful ways, that makes goals and collaboration around contributing easier.
• Coordinates and continuously optimizes a project/program portfolio with transparency.
• Contribution to the development of TPM-practice through own behavior and by actively engaging in the TPM community.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Be part of the leadership team in Delivery & Onsite Technology – DPI area, providing secure, scalable, and modern device, cloud and digital infrastructure services for our workforce.

Within Delivery & Onsite Technology, the Director will be leading a team of TPMs working closely with senior leadership including Lead Engineers, product teams, agile coaches, and user experience researchers. As the sub-domain is growing this role will be leader of experienced individual contributors. Furthermore, encouraged to be able to deliver impact through a distributed and global organization.

This position will act as Competency Lead in a strategic partner role providing valuable sparring to our subdomain senior leaders orchestrating their central initiatives.

Our strategic programs portfolio span from digital infrastructure implementation in new factories and offices, fueling an API based architecture or removal of technical dept. We have several exciting programs running, with global and strategic impact, helping the LEGO Group differentiate our digital consumer experience.

This role is based at our new LEGO® Campus in Billund. The work environment is exciting, inspiring, flexible, - and we like to have fun along the way!

Do you have what it takes?

The ideal candidate is hard-working and will need to have solid experience within technical program management, preferably in an agile setup and demonstrated ability in a similar leadership role. Added to that, great people leader skills with an inclusive approach and inclination to active decision-making.

Demonstrable ability to successfully lead large tech programs or projects, through roles in program management, project management, product ownership or similar in a fast-paced environment.

Understanding and preferable experience in leading technical program with financial and budgeting knowledge and preferable procurement and contract handling skills. Knowledge of application lifecycle management, software development methodology, technical architecture, and engineering practices. Strong validated background with agile methodologies, always seeking to deliver continuously and avoiding the big bang.

To succeed in this role, the right candidate preferably has competences within the following:

• Bias to action, takes initiative, recognizes, and acts on opportunities.
• Dynamic and structured personality, not afraid to challenge authorities to achieve the best outcome.

Advanced English both written and verbally are needed since we are an international gathered team.

Please note: If you require any reasonable accommodation or adjustments throughout the application process, please let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs.

This position is Director level. Relocation support is not offered.

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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.

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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.