Job Description

Are you passionate about planning optimization, analyzing data to define tradeoffs for key decisions, and leading global airfreight management initiatives?

Then this is your opportunity to leverage your strong planning/distribution expertise, analytical mindset, and stakeholder management skills, while stepping into a key role as Planning Manager Specialist in our Global Moulding Processes, Billund!

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

You will be the global owner of airfreight management in LEGO Global Supply Chain Operations, ensuring optimal tradeoffs between product availability, finance and sustainability dimensions including CO₂ reduction. You will lead global initiatives, manage budgets, connect upstream and downstream stakeholders, and maintain high standards in processes, workflows, and business rules. This includes regular weekly and monthly tasks, as well as ownership and development of processes, principles, and tools. Specifically, you will be responsible for:

• Airfreight Principles: Own governance and standards for airfreight use as a means of transportation, including defining criteria and approval thresholds. Align with senior leaders, ensure business awareness and training in these principles, and handle/approve requests within scope.

• Airfreight Reporting & Analysis: Manage weekly/monthly spend reporting, including presenting the storyline of insights, drivers, and actions. Collaborate with manufacturing sites, finance, and shipping; control Power BI dashboards and manage airfreight cancellation processes.

• Airfreight Budgeting: Set and track the annual budget with finance and global distribution, building on clear drivers and building blocks. Thereafter, track results while linking assumptions to actuals.

• Airfreight Improvement: Drive initiatives to reduce airfreight and CO₂ emissions, generate ideas across the business, and lead selected improvement projects, e.g. CO₂ reporting with sustainability teams, switching mould shipments from airfreight to sea freight, and automatically removing unused airfreight capacity, etc.

• Analytical Support: Support the team with analytical tasks connected to e.g. our global bottleneck process.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Global Capacity Planning department has 25 specialists dedicated to ensuring optimal capacity across key operational areas like moulding, processing and packing. Adaptability is crucial in our dynamic work environment, where unexpected challenges like supply chain disruptions can arise. 

In this department, you will join the Billund-based Global Moulding Processes team consisting of eight highly-skilled professionals managing global processes related to moulding and manufacturing, including ordering moulds, assessing machine load and capacity, and managing key processes like excess and airfreight strategies.

Do you have what it takes?

The ideal candidate brings 5+ years of experience working with planning, logistics, distribution/shipping or project management across a complex stakeholder environment. You bring an educational background within Supply Chain, Logistics, Finance or equivalent. Furthermore, you have:

• Solid hands-on experience with planning systems, processes and technologies combined with distribution understanding and the ability to assess complex transportation needs.

• Experience with bottleneck/shortage management in supply chain working with risk scenarios, mitigation solutions, etc. 

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to manage large amounts of data, perform strong end-to-end analysis and present key conclusions in a concise way to decision makers.

• Knowledge of digital tools to enable the analytical foundation - SAP, Kinaxis Maestro and Microsoft Power BI/data flows.

• Strong collaboration skills thriving in a diverse stakeholder environment across manufacturing sites, finance, shipping, etc.

• Ability to constructively challenge key decisions and perspectives to seek win-win solutions. 

• Learning mindset and curiosity with the ability to quickly understand and navigate complex systems effectively across supply planning, distribution and manufacturing. 

• Proactive and self-driven work approach actively seek information, challenge status quo and drive initiatives independently, while demonstrating leadership and initiative.

Furthermore, it would be an advantage, if you have: 

• Experience with airfreight management from the manufacturing industry.

• Project management and continuous improvement experience. 

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.

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