The LEGO Group
Senior Manager, People & Leadership Development Portfolio Management
Job Description
In this role you will turn strategy into action, orchestrating a high-impact learning portfolio that builds organizational capability at scale. Sitting at the heart of our One Learning Plan (OLP), you will connect priorities, align stakeholders, and ensure every investment builds toward a stronger, future-ready organization.
If you thrive on bringing clarity to complexity, influencing senior leaders, and turning big-picture strategy into tangible outcomes, this is your chance to make a lasting impact.
Please note: We do not offer relocation for this role
Core Responsibilities
You will be responsible for orchestrating the LEGO Group’s One Learning Plan (OLP) portfolio, ensuring organizational and functional capability priorities are translated into a coherent, prioritized and executable portfolio of initiatives.
Working closely with the Heads of Skill Development, this role ensures that capability investments are aligned to strategic priorities, sequenced effectively, and governed through a disciplined portfolio management approach.
Orchestrate the One Learning Plan portfolio
Drive the annual and quarterly OLP planning cycles
Ensures a clear, integrated view of the prioritized capabilities to ensure we can deliver in line with agreed plans (resourcing, time and budget)
Supports data led prioritization discussions and trade-offs decisions
Effectively manages the budget, directing resources toward high-impact initiatives and measuring return on investment.
Provide data, insight and reporting
Ensures clear data, insight and reporting
Identify and manages risks, capacity constraints and priority conflicts
Supports leadership discussions on organizational capability readiness
Tracks metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of initiatives
Strengthen capability investment and vendor management discipline
Support transparent prioritization and trade-off decisions
Ensure effort and investment are focused on the highest impact initiatives
Build strong, strategic partnerships ensuring that vendor relationships contribute to our key priorities, ensuring investments drive maximum value
Continuously improve the OLP operating model
Maintain and refine the OLP governance and planning processes
Improve portfolio tracking tools and planning approaches
Play your part in our team succeeding
This role sits at the center of the LEGO Groups’ People and Leadership Development function, enabling the organization to move to an integrated, organizational capability roadmap that supports delivery of strategic business plans. You will work closely with Heads of Skill Development, HR Business Partners and senior stakeholders across the organization. Together, you will help ensure the LEGO Group develops the capabilities needed to deliver our strategic priorities.
Do you have what it takes?
The ideal candidate brings strong portfolio or program management experience from a larger global matrix organization. You have comfort operating at both strategic and operational level as well as you show excellent stakeholder facilitation and prioritization skills. You bring the ability to translate multiple initiatives into a coherent strategic roadmap and utilize your analytical mindset to translate data into actionable insight. Finally, you bring expertise within budget and vendor management.
It will be an advantage if you have experience working in or alongside HR, Talent or organizational development functions as well as:
Exposure to large-scale digital learning platforms or capability ecosystems
Experience coordinating cross-functional planning cycles in complex organizations
Interest in organizational capability development, workforce transformation or future skills
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.
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The LEGO Group London, England Office
8 New Fetter Lane, London, United Kingdom, EC4A 1
