Senior Manager, Emerging Markets Development

Are you a professional who has experience in building businesses in a high growth market from either a top tier consulting firm, in-house strategy team or corporate in a relevant industry?

Join our team and help us reach more children across these new geographies
Core Responsibilities
- Set out clear structures and frameworks in order to build and test hypotheses around expanding The LEGO Group’s business in Emerging Markets
- Work with key partners cross-functionally and across local, regional and global levels of the org to coordinate, shape and collect the right inputs, as well as to ensure agreement for initiatives
- Create detailed implementation plans to support smooth transition into execution
- Look for opportunities to optimize processes and document examples of standard methodology to ensure repeatability and longer-term capability building in market expansion

Play your part in our team succeeding

The role will be centrally located in the global Markets & Channels organization as part of Market and Commercial Development (MCD) which is a team with global presence, working across our B2B Market Groups and D2C LEGO Retail unit with a directive to optimise commercial momentum, support Group-wide commercial strategies and drive commercial insights and building capability in how we activate our brand and go to market.

One key activity for MCD is to support the LEGO Groups strategic ambition to expand consumer reach and grow our business across emerging markets. The EMD team is responsible for the market prioritization, progress of the market portfolio along the development pipeline and engaging with Emerging Markets themselves to create business cases and develop expansion initiatives.
Do you have what it takes?
- Ability to develop robust project plans and lead project workstreams, particularly related to market entry / growth strategy / commercial business plans and/or sales and marketing strategies.
- A global perspective and ability to work and collaborate with international teams.
- Excellent partner management, communication and influencing skills, including with senior team members
- A self starter with an entrepreneurial spirit, ready to work independently and prepared to challenge the status quo and drive new initiatives from start to completion.
- High degree of financial and analytical competence
- Highly proficient in Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong exposure to and curiosity about Emerging geographies in particular south-east Asia
- Experience with C-suite communication and partner management, where differing priorities need to be considered in a large, corporate environment
- International Travel Flexibility, global and regional.

Join the global LEGO® team

What’s in it for you? Here are some of what to 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.
- Wellness - We want you to be your best self, so you will have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes 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, you’ll be rewarded through our global bonus scheme.
- Your workplace - Our offices will be your primary workplace with flexibility to work from home during your working week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model, role eligibility and frequency with you.

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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.
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**Location**:

- Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

**Job ID**

SG1907

**Category**:

- Strategy & Transformation
- Project Management

**Language**

EN