Senior Global Initiative Manager, Social Responsibility

Job Description

Are you passionate about making a meaningful difference for children and families?

Bring your skills, expertise and positive attitude in play to bring the LEGO vision and mission to life and create impact for children and families globally.

Reporting to the Senior Director of the Global Initiative team within the Social Responsibility (SR) organisation, this role will play a critical role in driving a portfolio of global initiatives – setting strategic direction, enabling execution, and innovating new initiatives - with a focus on equipping parents and caregivers to leverage the transformative power of play to support their children’s development.

Please note: No relocation assistance is offered for this position. The level of the role is senior manager specialist (individual contributor).

Core Responsibilities

Playful Parenting: Working across SR and teams across the LEGO Group, build and lead initiatives to reach parents and caregivers with resources and messages to maximise the power of play to help their children thrive.

• Strategy: Own and drive the Playful Parenting global strategy, working with collaborators across the business to align strategies and drive shared value for the LEGO Group and the communities we aim to reach with our social responsibility programs.

• Initiative execution: Design, manage, and maintain the processes that enable these initiatives including working across supply chain, finance, business operations, regional SR teams, and other cross functional collaborators to ensure smooth execution, accountability, and transparency in our programs.

• Pilot execution: As part of testing and expanding our approach to Playful Parenting, we are currently piloting and testing various avenues to drive impact for children, caregivers, and the LEGO Group alike. This role will lead this work and chart the path forward.

• Regional coordination: Work closely with SR teams in Europe, the US, and Asia to support development of regional initiatives and strengthen impact through global coordination and clear measures of success.

• Promotion / Communication: Develop and drive (in coordination with our communication colleagues) the story of the Playful Parenting Portfolio.

Prescription for Play (P4P): P4P is an existing initiative in our Playful Parenting portfolio that uses the trusted advisor status of medical professionals to provide caregivers of children (currently focused on 18-36m) with the knowledge, advice and tools to inject play into their every day to help their babies and toddlers develop and thrive. This role will lead the global coordination and strategy for this program, currently active in the USA and China, and deliver as per plan.

• Project Execution: Coordinating across the US and China programs, drive the program management of P4P. This will include logistics, procurement, contracting, materials planning and new product development. Play a key role in ensuring alignment from key partners including LEGO Group (supply chain, procurement, logistics, Government and Public Affairs, Communications), LEGO Foundation, research & evaluation partners, and external partners. Manage and enhance digital systems that improve effectiveness and efficiency of operations.

• Evaluation & assessment: Oversee the evaluation of the program’s impact.

• Support initiative implementation in the US and China: In partnership with US- and China-based leads, strengthen initiative, driving strategy, impact, evaluation, scale, program evolution and visibility.

• Partnership Development: Assist with the development and maintenance of key partnerships for program expansion, aligned with ambitions of systemically changing health care provider discourse on play.

• Promotion/Communications: Assist with the development and implement communication plan to raise visibility of program and disseminate learnings and results internally and externally. Will include website oversite and maintenance.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The role is critical to delivering our mission – inspiring and developing the builders of tomorrow. Children in local communities around the world have a right to quality learning through play experiences and it is our responsibility to make great things happen, bringing parents, families and employees on the journey with us.

Do you have what it takes?

• Extensive and proven experience working successfully with social impact initiatives, whether in corporate social responsibility or non-profit – ideally a mix and preferably with experience from education and/or Early Childhood Development-related programs targeting parents, caregivers and children.

• Experience with developing global initiatives in co-creation with colleagues and partners and enabling local implementation by same.

• Proven ability to manage complex projects with multiple collaborators and budgets over $3M USD.

• Collaborator with strong interpersonal and stakeholder manager skills.

• Patient, flexible, proactive self-starter with proficient ability to creatively solve problems based on high level objectives – with no roadmap.

• Curiosity to explore, learn and seek solutions from multiple sources.

• Proficient written and verbal communication skills (in English) including ability to deliver engaging, impactful presentations.

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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.

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