Director, Low Carbon Innovation & Strategy

Job Description

Are you a trusted advisor who can shape climate strategy at the highest levels of a global business? Can you bring credibility, senior stakeholder engagement, and sharp climate analysis together to accelerate the LEGO Group's very ambitious decarbonisation agenda?

Come join our team!

Core Responsibilities

You will establish and drive the LEGO Group's low carbon innovation pipeline - identifying, prioritising, and unlocking the most impactful decarbonisation opportunities - while helping shape and deliver the roadmap towards our near-term Science Based Target and 2050 net zero target.

In this pivotal role, you'll source, evaluate, and mature carbon reduction levers to ensure they are credible, measurable, and delivery-ready. Partnering with senior leaders and technical specialists, you'll build the case for action, navigate competing priorities, and translate complex climate insight into clear recommendations for top decision-makers. You may lead the analysis, or else act as a critical friend and sparring partner to executive stakeholders.

Furthermore, you will:

• Design, establish and drive the low carbon innovation and evaluation pipeline - operating the frameworks, governance, and criteria used to prioritise opportunities across commercial, technical, and sustainability dimensions.

• Oversee the resulting portfolio of high-impact decarbonisation initiatives, working with project leads to orchestrate them from idea, through evaluation, to hand-off for delivery - ensuring rigor, pace, and clear decision points, and using robust metrics to track and communicate expected carbon reductions across defined investment horizons.

• Prepare high-quality, concise materials for senior executives, including C-suite and Board audiences, that inform major strategic and investment decisions.

• Drive and manage the change necessary to deliver our low carbon outcomes, across - and in partnership with - the organisation. You will provide clear global parameters, whilst seeing the bigger picture of what is needed to support local ownership.

• Build and maintain trusted relationships across Operations, Product, Procurement, Finance, Commercial, and Communications - navigating trade-offs and aligning stakeholders behind a shared decarbonisation agenda.

• Commission, interpret and challenge carbon analysis, scenarios, and abatement economics, using this alongside other technical data to support balanced commercial decisions.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Join the Global Climate Strategy & Analysis team! We drive the LEGO Group's GHG reduction strategy and roadmap, enabling and tracking progress toward our near-term Science Based Target and 2050 Net Zero Target. We also deliver our carbon reporting, and all corporate-level analysis to guide decision-making and investment.

Do you have what it takes?

You will bring extensive experience across climate strategy, decarbonisation, sustainability, or low carbon innovation – predominantly in-house within a large international company - with a science, economics, engineering, physical geography or similar background.

In addition:

• Demonstrated experience establishing and running innovation and evaluation pipelines that prioritise opportunities against commercial, technical, and sustainability criteria.

• Comfortable executing corporate sustainability strategy in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and complex environment - able to identify the key questions and bring structure, momentum, and clear thinking where others see uncertainty.

• Proven track record engaging senior executives, including C-suite and Board-level audiences, through clear, compelling, data-driven materials.

• Build trusted relationships quickly and holding ground amid competing priorities across sustainability, finance, operations, and communications.

• Experience of successfully driving change in a corporate context.

• Strategic mindset paired with pragmatism - comfortable moving between long-term vision and near-term execution.

• Strong numeracy skills, with the ability to interpret and test the credibility of strategic-level climate analysis - interpreting and challenging carbon data (e.g. GHG footprinting and/or lifecycle assessment).

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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.

Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here

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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