Job Description

LCI Director

At the LEGO Group, every single person on our team is united behind our mission to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow. Working with us gives you a chance to be creative, fun and innovative while learning through the power of play. Are you brave enough to start your next career journey with us?

Bring your unique perspectives and expertise:

Ensuring the establishment of Continuous Improvement Culture while having accountability over site’s overall performance along with Site Leadership Team!

This is not a position for pure academics or advisors. The colleague will be expected to work full time across a range of departments and cooperation with global sites as required. He will be able to work hand-in-hand, influence, coach and challenge our internal teams in adopting and implementing LEGO Continuous Improvements. The main focus will be to implement Lean tools, processes, behaviors and mindset with the aim of building organization capabilities and achieving practical results.

He/she will use the standard LCI assessment tools to show clear status against future targets. Some international travel is expected for cooperation with other areas!

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Your responsibility will be:

• Run the LCI department on a daily basis.
• Challenge and coach the local Leaders to improve overall operational efficiencies through the applications of LCI methodologies and mindset.
• Contribute to development of global LCI strategies as well as roll out in the form of local LCI activities.
• Introduce new and practical insights to the organization to augment existing lean systems.
• Uphold and maintain global standards implementations and validate through process confirmations.

• Act as the trainer and custodian of PPS process pertaining to its application in cases when continuous improvements are needed within operations processes.

• Lead the various LEGO Jiaxing departments in the execution of the strategic deployment process during strategic planning periods.
• Lead concerted efforts across all departments in the planning, execution and tracking of yearly productivity improvement activities in meeting the yearly productivity targets.
• Oversee the deployment of Power BI capabilities in LEGO Jiaxing, maintain pipeline of initiatives and develop local communities to ensure efficient applications in support of continuous improvement activities.

You are expected to have:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in similar role
• Familiarization of the Lean tools and mindset
• Hands on experience in helping organization to transition from traditional processes to Lean processes.
• Good stakeholder management skills to secure mandate and support for LCI activities.
• Experience in leading people. 
• Flexibility in working hours and mobility in workplace.
• Fluency in English and Mandarin.

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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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