The LEGO Group

Manager, Commercial Optimization & Retail Planning

The LEGO Group$107K — $161K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience in retail, CPG, FMCG or consulting for consumer-facing businesses.
  • Comfortable analyzing data and visualizing patterns.
  • Strong commercial judgment in retail planning.
  • Effective communicator with cross-team collaboration skills.
  • SQL experience preferred, with a focus on improving data practices.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic initiatives from concept to execution with measurable outcomes.
  • Shape routines for global LEGO Branded Stores investment decisions.
  • Deliver insights on sales, margins, traffic, and shopper experience with regional teams.
  • Synthesize retail data to recommend actions for growth.

Benefits

  • Enhanced paid family care leave options.
  • Life and disability insurance coverage for all colleagues.
  • Access to wellbeing initiatives and the Headspace App.
  • Generous colleague discount on LEGO products.
  • Incentives through bonus schemes based on goal achievement.
  • Hybrid working model with specific office location assignment.
Full Job Description
Job Description

As part of the Commercial Optimization & Strategic Planning, you will gain an understanding of our global branded retail business, with a particular focus our LEGO Branded Stores portfolio. You will play a central role in driving critical analysis of portfolio and store performance, shaping strategic recommendations, and helping execute high-impact priority projects across the business.

In this role, you will directly contribute to delivering our ambitious vision of making LEGO Branded Stores the pinnacle shopping and brand experience for shoppers and consumers around the world.

You will help strengthen and elevate the foundations that enable us to generate insights, identify opportunities, and turn learnings into action across our global store portfolio. Through this work, you will be a key contributor to improvement programs and global initiatives designed to enhance both the in-store experience and the financial performance of our stores worldwide.

This is a rare opportunity to connect strategy with actions driving impact.

Play your part in our team succeeding!

As a part of the LEGO Retail organization, the Global Stores team drives the sales, operational processes, and in store strategy across regions, service & selling behaviors, compliance and process, communications, marketing communications and plays a pivotal role in our organization's commercial strategy.

Working alongside key collaborators and data owners, this role will play a key part in continuing to move to a more multidisciplinary set of data sources and a focus towards useful data-driven insights that drive business performance.

Core Responsibilities:
• Lead cross-functional strategic initiatives and pilots from concept through execution, setting cases, measures and scalable recommendations.
• Shape portfolio management routines that support investment choices for the global LEGO Branded Stores estate.
• Deliver analyses with regional colleagues, surfacing opportunities across sales, margin, traffic and shopper experience.
• Connect retail data sources, synthesize learnings and recommend actions for like-for-like growth.

Do you have what it takes?
• Experience in retail, CPG, FMCG or consulting for consumer-facing businesses.
• Comfortable analyzing data, visualizing patterns and turning findings into leader-ready recommendations.
• Commercial judgment with confidence using systems and platforms that guide retail planning.
• Clear communicator who partners across teams and keeps several projects moving.
• SQL experience is a plus, with curiosity to keep improving data practices over time.

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Compensation
The salary for this position has a range of $107,885.00 - $161,827.00 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:

FamilyCare 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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

About The LEGO Group

The LEGO Group is a Danish toy production company based in Billund. It is best known for the manufacture of Lego-brand toys, consisting mostly of interlocking plastic bricks. The LEGO Group has also built several amusement parks around the world, each known as Legoland, and operates several retail stores. The company was founded on 10 August 1932 by Ole Kirk Christiansen. The word 'lego' is derived from the Danish words 'leg godt', meaning 'play well'. The LEGO Group's flagship product, Lego, consists of colourful interlocking plastic bricks accompanying an array of gears, figurines called minifigures, and various other parts. LEGO pieces can be assembled and connected in many ways to construct objects, including vehicles, buildings, and working robots.
Learn more about The LEGO Group
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18,900 employees
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Founded
1932

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