Head of Performance Management – Element & Moulds

Job Description

Are you passionate about driving performance, leveraging data, and turning insights into business impact? Do you thrive in an environment where leadership, innovation, and execution go hand in hand?

Then this is your chance to help transform how we drive performance, quality, and decision-making across Elements & Moulds!

This is a Senior Manager position based in Billund. Relocation isn't offered for this role.

About the role

As our new Head of Performance Management, you will play a key role in shaping the future of Elements & Moulds Operations. As a member of the Supply Chain Management Leadership Team, you will drive the performance agenda across the organization and ensure data-driven decision-making supports both operational excellence and strategic ambitions.

Your focus will be on performance management, KPI governance, data transformation, analytics, process quality, and the adoption of AI and digital solutions that enable better business outcomes. You will lead a highly skilled team of specialists across performance management, analytics, data, and quality, while working closely with senior stakeholders across Engineering & Quality, Production, Finance, and Business Technology to strengthen performance, quality, cost, and delivery across the value chain.

This is a unique opportunity to influence both operational performance and strategic direction while helping shape the future of data, analytics, process quality, and AI within Elements & Moulds.

Required Qualifications

We are looking for a strong and results-oriented leader who combines business understanding with a passion for data and technology. You bring:

- 5+ years of experience leading performance management, KPI reporting/governance, and analytics in a complex operational, manufacturing, or supply chain environment.
- Proven experience improving business performance and turning strategy into measurable results.
- Experience with data transformation, advanced analytics and data-driven decision-making.
- Interest into AI and digitalization tools.
- Ability to challenge status quo and drive meaningful change.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively across senior leadership teams and organizational levels.
- Proficiency in English, written and verbal.

Preferred Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree within Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, or a related field.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to inspire, develop, and challenge team members constructively.
- Experience implementing AI, predictive analytics, automation, or digital solutions that improve business outcomes.
- Experience developing data, analytics, or digital transformation roadmaps.
- Experience with Power BI or similar enterprise reporting and visualization platforms.
- Fluency in Danish, both written and spoken, is considered an advantage.

What you'll build

- Performance Management: Drive and challenge performance across Elements & Moulds Operations, ensuring transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- KPI Governance & Reporting: Define, implement, and follow up on KPIs that support strategic priorities and operational excellence.
- Data & Analytics: Ensure efficient data transformation and pipelines utilizing the LEGO® data platform, strong analytics capabilities, and actionable insights that drive decision-making across the organization.
- AI & Digital Transformation: Drive the exploration and implementation of AI, automation of digital business processes, and agent-based solutions to improve performance and efficiency.
- Cross-functional Leadership: Build strong partnerships across supply chain, engineering, finance, and technology functions to ensure alignment and successful execution of strategic priorities.
- People Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a team of highly skilled professionals while fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and learning.
- Strategic Leadership: Actively contribute to the Supply Chain Management Leadership Team and help shape the future direction of Elements & Moulds Operations.

Life on the team

The Performance Management & Process Quality team is responsible for leading the performance and quality roadmap across the Elements & Moulds value chain. The team enables operational excellence through self-service solutions, performance visualization, analytics, and fact-based insights that support decision-making across the business.

Working closely with stakeholders throughout Engineering & Quality, Production, Finance, and Business Technology, the team serves as a trusted partner and anchor point for performance, quality, and operational understanding. We value openness, collaboration, honest feedback, and a shared commitment to helping each other succeed while maintaining a healthy balance between professional excellence and creativity.

Joining the team gives you the opportunity to lead a highly capable function, influence key strategic decisions, and turn new ideas into tangible business impact across Elements & Moulds. Your leadership, expertise, and ideas will help shape how performance, quality, analytics, and AI capabilities evolve across the organization.

What success looks like

Success means establishing a trusted performance management capability that helps leaders act quickly on quality, delivery, and cost challenges. You'll strengthen how data is used across the organisation, , and help shape the next generation of analytics and digital capabilities also considering new technologies such as AI. Over the next 12–18 months, you'll work closely with supply chain, engineering, quality, finance, and technology leaders to create a more connected, insight-driven value chain.

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.

Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here

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.

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