the LEGO Group
Technical Project Manager for Advanced Development
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Hardware Technology Project Associate – The LEGO Group
About the Role
This key member position within the Hardware Technology Project Office Team sits under the Head of Hardware Technology Elements, with a dotted line to the Advanced Development Leadership Team. Collaborating closely within The LEGO Group, the role focuses on leading and delivering new tech solutions at scale, aligning with Engineering, Product Development, and Manufacturing teams to enhance techniques, experiences and play innovations.
Candidates must engage with Emerging Technologies, Manufacturability, Agile Delivery, and Attention to Timelines, Costs, Quality, and Volume to support The LEGO Group’s long term goals and way of working.
Core Responsibilities
- Collaborative Development: Work with Engineering partners to:
- Develop reusable, manufacturable, and technically robust hardware and software solutions across the technology lifecycle within both Consumer & B2C Products
- Integrate strategic partners to pilot scaled play experiences, robotics, tactile interaction, and Sustainability Driven advancements
- Project Leadership: Oversee and ensure:
- Timely project delivery against defined constraints (time, budget, quality, scale)
- Effective decision-making: project discovery meetings, planning/coordination, and proactive risk mitigation
- Clear business-facing communication for senior stakeholders to digest technical complexities and propose solutions
- Team Enablement: Develop and sustain:
- A cross-functional, agile team environment with unity across sites, departments, and global stakeholder meetings
- Alignment with Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Quality experts to ensure seamless execution
- Operational Excellence: Maintain and scale balanced alignment:
- Monitor, track, and present technical dependencies
- Implement process control with risk acknowledgement and resolution across the allocated project
- Address issues or changes cohesively, managing governance with internal and external collaborators
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Do You Have What It Takes?
We are searching for a vibrant change agent aligned with LEGO’s purpose-driven values. If you can:
- Drive Execution: Proven success in projecting, industrial engineering, and project coordination—especially in consumer electronics, robotics/Mechatronics, Electronics, or related hardware.
- Dynamic Leadership: Experience in scouting, prioritizing, and enabling projects, from concept to delivery via unique partnerships.
- Relentless Collaboration: Navigate harmonization across multiple disciplines and drive quality alignment in cross-organisational milestones.
- Communication Mastery: Translating complex technical concepts to non-technical teams and guiding aligned decisions alongside Sponsors & Steering Committees.
- Adaptive Mindset: Innovative, incisive, and proactive to drive technical digital transformation and tomorrow’s playful insights through dynamic problem-solving.
- Skills:
- Technical, risk-aware, execution-focused mindset across hardware & processes.
- Emotional intelligence to build anywhere work teams, ignite creative problem-solving, and foster a psychological safe culture.
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Why Join Us?
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Generous Benefits:
- Family Care Leave for key life junctures.
- Insurance Coverage for peace of mind.
- Health & Wellbeing Support—tools for nourishing your energy, community connection, and creativity.
- LEGO Discount: Passing the kid of true building enthusiast)
- Perfomance-based Bonus: Celebrating collective LEGO Group success.
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Work Culture:
- Average 3 hybrid days per week—either in-store, store, or our facilities as assigned.
- A collaborative, inclusive, and value-driven community shaped by TRIBE’s influence.
- Commitment to Diversity Equity—We encourage every individual to feel their place across The LEGO Group.
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Contribution to Purpose:
- Join a impact-journey, shaping a legacy inspired by childhood learning, play, and possibility.
We Stand for Children’s Rights
Candidates undertaking responsibilities involving direct contact with children will be subject to Child Safeguarding Background Screening. Your application signifies agreement with these requirements.
Apply NEARLY: Roles remain open to discussion, pending evolution in expectations or processes.
**The LEGO Group – Make Innovation Possible
Join the team and let’s reimagine play, together.* 🧱✨*
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