Senior Marketing Manager, LEGO® Friends (12-month position)

Job Description

Ready to help champion and nurture girls’ creativity? Excited to take charge in creating impactful communication campaigns that get consumers to love building with LEGO bricks and bring their best friendship stories to life?
Join us as a Billund-based Senior Marketing Manager for the LEGO Friends franchise in a dynamic 12-month position, where you can make a real difference!

Join a friendly bunch of visionaries
As the Senior Marketing Manager you are responsible for envisioning and executing key parts of the Global marketing strategy for LEGO® Friends, with a special focus on communication.

Please note: This is a position based in Billund, Denmark. Our flexible working model allows employees to work 2 days/week from home (3 days in the office). Relocation support is not offered for this role.

Key Responsibilities
As Sr. Marketing Manager - Communication Lead in the LEGO Friends team - and in collaboration with the Marketing Director and the Marketing Manager, you will lead the Go-to-Market and communication strategy, from planning to execution. This will include:

• End-to-end global go-to-market and communication campaigns towards consumers and shoppers; from briefing to playbook and toolbox development as well as execution in collaboration with the Marketing Manager. 

• Drive the communication innovation agenda, identifying new impactful and efficient ways to reach our consumers and shoppers.

• Lead the LEGO Friends experience across Owned, Earned and Shared channels, securing a consistent and playful experience across the ecosystem, immersing the LEGO Friends audience into the brand.

• Ensure great collaboration and synergies with our main global communication partners, Our LEGO Agency and the LEGO branded channels.

• Work closely with Regions and Markets to help transition the global campaign to a local execution, guiding and helping our partners. 

• Build, own and drive the Friends communication research agenda to test the efficiency of our marketing campaigns and build insights for future efforts.

• Lead the LEGO Friends gaming strategy, including partnering with the LEGO Game team, external vendors and the external media agency.

Do you have what it takes?

• Minimum 5 years of experience in consumer products marketing (ideally with kids / family products) 

• Experience in developing and leading product consumer and shopper communication and marketing campaigns, including creative agency and media agency management.

• Strong business understanding; how communication efforts impact business plans.

• A positive, can-do attitude, team spirit and a belief that we build bigger thinking through collaboration.

• An intuitive talent for understanding and extracting key consumer and shopper insights and how to apply these to communication strategies and campaigns.

• Best in class presentation and writing skills with the ability to tell a persuasive story that makes the campaign come to life and creates a crowd of fellow enthusiasts.  

• An effective leader and relationship builder across functions, levels and business units – you build positive relationships and influence relations to deliver on the LEGO Friends business ambition.

Build your career brick by brick at the LEGO Group.

• Work independently, recognized subject matter expert, able to coach others

• Tasks are independently identified and defined

• Communicate directly with senior management, independently handling conflicts in negotiation

• May manage large projects or processes independently

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.

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.

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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.