Senior People Partner, LEGO® Education

Job Description

Join LEGO Education (LE) as a Senior People Partner and drive the people agenda for our Product Experience (PX) team. In this strategic role, you will partner with and coach senior leaders to shape and build high performing teams, lead transformation, change, and enable capability building. Bring your global partnering expertise and business acumen to impact students everywhere.

Please note: This role is based in Billund, a Senior Manager Specialist skyline, and relocation is not offered.

Core Responsibilities

• Contribute to the LEGO Education Global People Plan and implementation of end-to-end people agenda in designated business units.

• Be an active member, coach and sparring partner for PX´s business unit leadership team (LT), and people leaders.

• In connection to the business & people strategies and in anticipation of business needs, drive initiatives, in close partnership with business leaders, related to capability building, talent management and employee engagement agenda.

• Design workshops, learning initiatives and other sessions to engage and develop teams in connection to business objectives and the people strategy.

• Collaborate with internal LEGO Group People, Places & Culture (PPC) Centres of Excellence and other PPC business partners to understand and create impact through global people initiatives.

• Secure strong deployment and impact of annual people processes including year-end and mid-year dialogues, PULSE and Upward Feedback surveys, KPI and COT setting and drive ongoing evaluation and dialogue to improve Motivation & Satisfaction as a primary people measure.

• Be accountable for governance and hygiene factors within areas you support including org design principles, data accuracy, headcount baseline, and all people costs.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The LEGO Education People team plays a key role in developing and delivering the people strategy, ultimately enabling the success of the business by creating high performing teams and supporting employee engagement, growth and learning. The LE People team consists of a Business Partnering function reporting directly into the LEGO Education organization but with close collaboration and connection to the broader PPC team. This role, based in Billund, will be providing partnership to areas of the LEGO Education business including Product Experience (other BU support TBD).

Do you have what it takes?

The ideal candidate has extensive demonstrated experience in HR roles including solid experience as a Business Partner, ideally with an international organization. You have collaborated across matrix organizations and contributed to the development and execution of a holistic people & culture strategy to support a business strategy. In addition, we expect that you have experience in:

• Partnering with business leaders to build high performing teams.

• Coaching, providing feedback to and challenging senior level leaders.

• Successfully identifying and leveraging data & insights to build a case for an initiative or actions that impact business performance. Success in developing data-driven storylines to gain stakeholder buy-in.

• Operating independently including identification of short to medium-term business needs and execution of corresponding actions.

• Collaborating with CoE function (Recruitment, Reward, and Employee Relations with enough knowledge to engage meaningfully with these functions, and influence when needed.

It will be an advantage if you have experience in a product, digital or tech-based business with agile and project-based working.

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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.