Senior Manager

Job Description

Ready to build technology services that keep LEGO® workplaces connected, equipped and ready to play? This Senior Manager role guides colleagues in Boston, MA within Hubs, Offices and Sites Onsite Technology!

Join the LEGO® Digital team and have a blast bringing new technology to life!

The new Competency Leader (CL) assumes people leadership responsibilities for local team members of the Delivery & Onsite Technology organization, including coaching, driving personal development, and staffing.

The CL sets goals and objectives for team members for the achievement of their own development plans. Driving impact through own functional expertise and passion for the proficiency area. Enables the employees to grow through self-discovery and mentoring. Leads professional capabilities in the proficiency area by defining and mastering professional standards and work methodologies and training proficiency resources.

This is a dual role containing leadership and active team membership, the ideal candidate is a digital professional with experience in leading people. But also, willingness to invest some of their time in participating in the team’s daily operations.

This role requires broad IT Infrastructure knowledge with sufficient knowledge to spare and challenge team on solutions and problems. Strong influence on technology, architecture and engineering/functional practices as well as supporting own team.

• Proven stakeholders & project management experience, building bridges between local stakeholders and the digital organization including service product owners in own organization.
• A cultural role model and enabler of others and in shaping the LEGO® culture within the team and own organization and proactively works towards collaborative culture.
• Proactively works with peers to ensure we have global alignment, knowledge sharing and that we succeed as one global team.
• Drives all people related processes, capacity planning, recruitment and onboarding, continuous development and well-being dialogues with employees in own area.

For projects in your location or region you will also work as an extension to our Technical Program Management team, to help drive/deliver local/regional projects.

And be part of a global leadership teams working together to ensure our organization is healthy in terms of capacity, capabilities, motivation, satisfaction and professionalism for us to succeed together and meet our goals and reach our vision.

We, as the Hubs, Offices and Sites Onsite Technology, take great pride in:

Deliver IT services where physical presence is required on behalf of product teams, primarily within the IT Infrastructure area (Client, Network, Video Conference etc.)

Installation, deployment and daily operation of IT Infrastructure solution for new location, relocations and life cycling of hardware devices.

Offering partnership to Digital Product Teams.

The team is based in our brand-new office in Boston, MA. The work environment is exciting, inspiring, flexible, - and we like to have fun along the way!

The preferred candidate for this opportunity has strong leadership capabilities including coaching, feedback, employee development, talent growth and building high-performance team. Experience with staffing, competency planning, onboarding, recruitment processes, and team capability development.

Strong Stakeholder, communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and build trust across different organizational levels. Strong understanding of agile methodologies and modern digital delivery practices. Ability to balance operational priorities with long-term people and competency development.

To succeed in this role, the ideal candidate already has experience in the following:

• Some years working in a digital organization with leadership.
• Strong technical and project management experience.
• Self-steering, proactive, organized and can determine independently what needs to be done.
• Relevant education within software engineering, computer science, IT, or a similar technical field is considered an advantage.
• Positive mindset with a natural need to see solutions instead of problems and challenges status quo when needed – also when it includes taking the tough dialogues.

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.

Please take in notice that because of vacation time this recruitment will take a little longer. Interview steps will start July 13th.

This position is Senior Manager Specialist level. Relocation support is not offered.

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Compensation

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 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.

Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs 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.

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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”
                                                                                                                                             
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.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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