Job Description

Are you ready to lead a high-performing team and drive strategic, impactful results across packing lifecycle operations?

Join us as Senior Packing Director, where you will oversee LEGO JIA Packing department to ensure supply of the right quality, quantity, and cost at the right time. You will align with ambitious business objectives while championing sustainability and driving operational excellence.

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Packing in the supply chain consists of prepacking, final packing technology and operations. In order to manage the manufacturing of the LEGO boxes and supply in the right quality, quantity and cost with the right timing, it is necessary to encourage employees to take overall responsibility in managing and coordinating with other relevant departments to fulfill the operations’ needs according to LEGO’s operating model.

Core Responsibilities

• Manage the Packing Departments:
  • Prepacking
  • Final packing
  • Maintenance
  • Manual warehouse
• Be a member of JIA manufacturing leadership team and contribute towards smooth/effective functioning of JIA manufacturing through collaboration with other departments.
• Effectively drive the Packing team in producing the finished goods according to the plan which meet the quality and cost requirements.
• Drive the performance KPIs to deliver productivity improvements.
• Build the team’s capacity and capability to meet the short- and long-term demands with clear objectives.
• Manage packing leadership team by providing feedback, coaching, clear meeting structure and proper training.
• Be the role model in demonstrating Leadership and embracing LEGO DNA by leverage “leadership playground” philosophy.
• Bridge between global and local culture by applying company processes with local context.
• Be the key player in global packing wheel (organization) to drive packing standardization, capacity, capability and performance improvements.

Do you have what it takes?

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical and industrial engineering or equivalent Minimum 10 to 12 years of experience in engineering and production (automation & digitalization) environment with good supply chain and consumer product and manufacturing understanding.
• Minimum 5 years managerial experience.
• Have experience in managing engineering or production team in group of 200-500 employees.

Nice to have

• Experience working with Packing & packaging production, maintenance, engineering and manual warehouse.
• Have good continuous improvement mindset
• Result oriented, strategic thinking, self-driven and motivated
• Good command in English and Mandarin (written and oral)

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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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