Director, SMP Program Management + **Location** Billund, Denmark + **Job ID** 0000025037 + **Category** Project / Program Management **Job Description** **Are you a seasoned leader with a strong background in program and project management and ready to lead a progressive journey that delivers meaningful, measurable results?** In this critical role, you’ll turn vision into action—driving innovative, scalable solutions that shape the future of sustainable materials in our industry! **Core Responsibilities** **Team Leadership:** Inspire, build and lead a team of a department manager, project managers and administrative staff to deliver on the sustainable materials roadmap and sustainability goals. **Roadmap Ownership:** Own and evolve the sustainable materials roadmap, balancing CO₂ impact, cost, and manufacturing complexity. Lead the annual review process, executive reporting, and critical metric tracking. **Roadmap Deployment:** Translate strategy into clear, prioritized initiatives. Drive execution across all SMP projects, from concept to launch, while identifying and managing risks. **Governance & Decision-Making:** Establish strong governance frameworks. Deliver clear, data-driven materials for executive decision-making and ensure alignment across the program. **Stakeholder & Change Management:** Lead change and drive alignment across diverse stakeholders, including senior leadership, to ensure consensus and successful adoption. **Communications:** Act as the SMP’s primary spokesperson. Partner with Corporate Communications to deliver clear, consistent messages internally and externally. **Multi-functional Collaboration:** Forge positive relationships with Sustainability, Engineering, Quality, and Product teams to accelerate progress toward our sustainability agenda. **Play your part in our team succeeding** In the Engineering & Quality Strategic Projects & Portfolio management team we lead a large and diverse portfolio of strategic, multi-functional projects, programs and portfolio ́s centered around sustainability and new technology development. **Do you have what it takes?** + Proven experience in project and program management, with a strong track record of delivering results in dynamic environments. + Inclusive and empowering leadership style, with a commitment to developing and supporting diverse, high-performing teams. + Excellent relationship-building skills to engage and collaborate effectively across all levels and functions. + Skilled at translating strategy into actionable plans and driving successful implementation. + Exceptional communication skills and clearly convey complex concepts to a variety of audiences, including senior stakeholders. + Highly organized and adaptable, and able to manage multiple priorities and drive progress in a fast-paced setting. + Solid understanding of sustainability principles, with the ability to assess key dimensions and uncover meaningful insights and interconnections. Please note that there is no relocation assistance provided for this position. 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.**