Senior Retail Forecasting Manager, AMS

Job Description

Are you a strategic retail planner with strong leadership and forecasting experience? We’re looking for a Retail Planning Lead to oversee our regional retail demand plan across both physical and digital channels!

You’ll lead a high-performing team, drive forecasting for exclusive products, and help shape global planning through advanced tools like o9. This is a key role connecting insight, operations, and commercial impact across the business.

Core Responsibilities

• Overall plan accountability: Secure the overall quality and delivery of the regional, item level demand plan, for both on-line and physical stores, across an up-to 21-month horizon. Plan includes both consumer sales and selling-in requirements.

• Team leadership: Lead a highly motivated and engaged retail planning team, consisting of 5 employees. This includes ongoing feedback, personal development, performance evaluation, KPI setting, and task management.

• Leverage the o9 planning system to align processes, recommend features, and drive a transition towards exception-based planning, minimizing reliance on offline tools for enhanced efficiency and accuracy.

• Regional collaboration: Work closely with regional cross-functional leadership teams across LEGO Retail & Supply Chain. This includes representing planning outputs in commercial meetings (including ad-hoc) to help drive business momentum.

• Global alignment: Work with counterparts in EMEA and APAC to ensure globally aligned processes. Share assumptions to ensure the regional storyline makes sense in the context of the overall global plan.

• Exclusives planning: Hands on responsibility for the forecast of a subset of products delivering high value to the LEGO Retail business. Working closely with marketing, business owners and other key partners to ensure that the forecast reflects all relevant inputs.

• Regional S&OP process: Ensure adherence to regional monthly S&OP process which delivers a plan built on a strong set of assumptions, with sign-off from local business owners.

• Global S&OP process: Work with global S&OP lead to secure regional input on risks and opportunities to the plan. Actively participate in the monthly Global Demand Review meeting, being able to speak to questions related to the regional plan.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The LEGO Retail Planning team, part of the RPMI function, is central to the LEGO Retail business. We collaborate closely with various teams and functions throughout the organization to create a comprehensive item-level plan by region and channel, extending up to 21 months into the future.

The ideal candidate will have the capability to influence and refine our LEGO Retail AMS plan, taking charge of the monthly submissions that encompass both consumer sales and selling in. Additionally, they will play a key role in developing future processes for the team, focusing on how we can effectively utilize the o9 planning system.

Do you have what it takes?

• Extensive planning experience preferably within a retail environment, covering digital & physical channels.

• Ability to assess plan feasibility at both high & low levels and identify areas requiring further focus with team.

• Ability to effectively communicate and articulate the key aspects of a demand plan through compelling storytelling, ensuring alignment and engagement among stakeholders at all levels.

• Previous experience using planning tools/systems and ability to identify & recommend product development opportunities to improve efficiency.

• Proactive in seeking out the latest data to improve plan accuracy and always focused on delivering outstanding results across all forecast KPIs.

• Demonstrates strong collaboration skills across various functions, cultures and management levels.

• Demonstrates leadership experience including supporting team members and leading cross functional meetings with senior stakeholders.

• Experience leading process change in a global setting. Gets energy from creating new ways of working, establishing new frameworks and ensuring process governance.

• Experience with leveraging big data and statistical modelling into the planning process.

• Results driven with a can-do mindset that thrives in overcoming challenges!

Additional details on this position:

• Our workplace enables our LEGO® colleagues to be and do their best at work. Introducing a flexible way of working through a hybrid working model is a great example of how we live up to our ambition. This 3 day in the office hybrid working model will exemplify our People Promise by embracing the different life situations of our colleagues.

• No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

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Compensation The salary for this position has a range of $150,921.00 - $226,381.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

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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