Construction Project Manager

Job Description

At the LEGO Group, we are passionate about inspiring creativity and learning through play.

Join our Construction and Project Management team and bring your ability to think strategically, adapt quickly, and respond to the ever-changing needs of the retail business!

Core Responsibilities:

50% Project Management

• Coordinate day to day processes of delivering, streamlining, efficiency and cost control of store build outs, remodels and refurbishments primarily across North America.
• Ensures teams ownership of global construction meetings; facilitating and leading the content of agenda points through meeting notes, action items and follow-up information as needed.
• Primary contact for USA organization between external Project Managers and LEGO internal partners for complete visibility of all projects.
• Drives alignment with LEGO Retail Team to insure smooth move between Real Estate and Store Development and Operations.
• Coordinate contribution of information to internal New Store SharePoint site; ensuring standard process and simplicity.
• Responsible for timely budget tracking, reconciliation and recap, for current/up to date status of all Global projects; bringing up concerns/issues immediately.
• Ownership in Budget planning, tracking and recap Meetings with Partners and respective Retail Controllers.
• Lead external vendors to meet timelines and achievement of L  store projects including new stores, refits, relocations and remodels.
• Supports where needed processes related to external maintenance partners.

30% Partner and Internal Department Management and

Collaboration:

• Active Participation in Global Retail cross function/alignment meetings.
• Drives AAR yearly, analyzing and capturing of historical data and trends to promote competitive advantage in future years.
• Active collaboration with contributed expertise regarding in-store refurbishments and Remodels, chipping in to future planning.
• Drives continuous alignment of processes across markets.
• Leads all aspects of the coordination and process of Global incoming and outgoing information.
• Responsible for all information with/from Global Finance for accurate cost control and budget management.
• Lead international fixtures’ logistics, planning and troubleshooting.
• Primary contact with Global Procurement, driving contract negotiation and exchange.

10% Vendor Management

• Driver of establishing new relationships within the USA vendor portfolio, while Maintaining the strength of current vendor relationships.
• Supporting owner of fixture inventory for USA Store Development; ensuring routine tracking, reconciliation and recaps as necessary.
• Owner of the planning, coordination and communication with centralized Warehouse.
• Leads all aspects of the coordination of furnished fixture orders, shipping, flow and delivery, for new stores, remodels and projects.
• Ownership of centralized catalog archive of all Store Construction retail fixtures; collect, update and organize shop drawings, specs and related material.
• Responsible for continually evaluating the external relationship and processes as set currently; empowered to challenge details, in an effort to streamline, improve and gain insight.

10% aob

• Evaluation, feedback, and accountability tracking using measurable values and behavior.
• 1:1 meetings with internal and external partners to share/provide feedback, constructive criticism and value adding benefit.
• Meetings with Senior Director to supervise own performance and teams performance.
• Participation on Global team meetings and agendas.

Play your part in our team succeeding!

Our team is driving retail growth by building profitable and viable Brand Retail Flagship Stores, Concept Stores and LEGO Certified Stores (LCS), MEG Stores (Merlin Partnership) and 3rd Party / Hypermarket…