The LEGO Group

Merchandising Operations Manager

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in data analysis and business operations.
  • Proficient in managing budgets and resource allocation.
  • Expertise in developing processes and tools for operational efficiency.
  • Skilled in translating complex insights into actionable recommendations.
  • Experience in leading cross-functional initiatives effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Lead financial and operational planning for the US Merchandising organization.
  • Turn performance data into strategic recommendations for planning and investment.
  • Develop and enhance tools and processes across the team.
  • Ensure visibility and accountability for resources and priorities.
  • Identify opportunities for process simplification and scalability.

Benefits

  • Enhanced paid family care leave options.
  • Comprehensive life and disability insurance coverage.
  • Access to the Headspace App and wellbeing programs.
  • Generous colleague discount from day one.
  • Bonus eligibility based on team performance and goal achievement.
  • Hybrid work policy with office engagement.
Full Job Description
Job Description

Just imagine turning complex data into clear decisions that shape how LEGO® products show up for shoppers across the US. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Merchandising Operations Manager, you'll help the US Merchandising organization operate effectively and deliver strong business results. You'll lead financial and operational planning, performance reporting, and process improvement. By developing practical tools and frameworks, you'll bring greater clarity to priorities, resources, and investment decisions across the LEGO brand's retail presence.

Required Qualifications
  • Delivered data and business analysis that identified trends, root causes, or commercial opportunities.
  • Managed budgets, forecasts, resource allocation, or investment decisions against business priorities.
  • Built processes, tools, or frameworks that improved efficiency, visibility, accountability, or scale.
  • Shaped solutions to complex business challenges by translating insights into clear actions.
  • Led cross-functional initiatives involving stakeholders with different priorities and areas of responsibility.
  • Owned business improvements from identifying the opportunity through to a measurable, sustainable outcome.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Created advanced data visualizations and performance reporting for business stakeholders.
  • Managed projects or programs involving multiple teams, milestones, and priorities.
  • Developed executive communications that turned complex information into a clear business story.
  • Applied commercial insights to planning, performance, or investment decisions.


What you'll build
  • Establish a strong operational and financial foundation for US Merchandising.
  • Turn performance data into recommendations that guide planning and investment.
  • Improve tools, processes, and working rhythms across the organization.
  • Strengthen visibility and accountability around priorities, resources, and results.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify and scale how the team operates.
  • Create strategic plans that support future growth and stronger retail execution.

If you've worked in a role where you improved business operations, influenced investment decisions, and used data to guide action, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is thoughtful problem-solving, clear communication, collaboration, and taking ownership from idea to outcome.

Life on the team

You'll join Markets and Channels within the US Channels team. We bring the LEGO brand to life wherever shoppers discover and purchase our products. It's a largely virtual team with regular working rhythms, frequent communication, and opportunities to share ideas and celebrate progress. You'll work with curiosity, take initiative, and help colleagues solve challenges together, even when the path isn't fully defined.

What success looks like

After one year, you'll have built trusted relationships and helped deliver operational and financial performance against plan. You'll support the team as it explores new technologies, improves retail execution, and expands its capabilities. Your closest partners will include the Director of Merchandising, Field Merchandising Managers, the Merchandising Coordinator, Finance, Retail Execution colleagues, and Key Account Managers.

Additional Notes
There is no relocation budget for this role.

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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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