Senior Retail Forecasting Manager, AMS

Retail Planning Lead

Are you a strategic retail planner with strong leadership and forecasting experience? We're looking for a Retail Planning Lead to oversee our regional retail demand plan across both physical and digital channels!

You'll lead a high-performing team, drive forecasting for exclusive products, and help shape global planning through advanced tools like o9. This is a key role connecting insight, operations, and commercial impact across the business.

Core Responsibilities

• Overall plan accountability:
  Secure the overall quality and delivery of the regional, item level demand plan, for both on-line and physical stores, across an up-to 21-month horizon. Plan includes both consumer sales and selling-in requirements.
• Team leadership:
  Lead a highly motivated and engaged retail planning team, consisting of 5 employees. This includes ongoing feedback, personal development, performance evaluation, KPI setting, and task management.
• Leverage the o9 planning system to align processes, recommend features, and drive a transition towards exception-based planning, minimizing reliance on offline tools for enhanced efficiency and accuracy.
• Regional collaboration:
  Work closely with regional cross-functional leadership teams across LEGO Retail & Supply Chain. This includes representing planning outputs in commercial meetings (including ad-hoc) to help drive business momentum.
• Global alignment:
  Work with counterparts in EMEA and APAC to ensure globally aligned processes. Share assumptions to ensure the regional storyline makes sense in the context of the overall global plan.
• Exclusives planning:
  Hands on responsibility for the forecast of a subset of products delivering high value to the LEGO Retail business. Working closely with marketing, business owners and other key partners to ensure that the forecast reflects all relevant inputs.
• Regional S&OP process:
  Ensure adherence to regional monthly S&OP process which delivers a plan built on a strong set of assumptions, with sign-off from local business owners.
• Global S&OP process:
  Work with global S&OP lead to secure regional input on risks and opportunities to the plan. Actively participate in the monthly Global Demand Review meeting, being able to speak to questions related to the regional plan.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The LEGO Retail Planning team, part of the RPMI function, is central to the LEGO Retail business. We collaborate closely with various teams and functions throughout the organization to create a comprehensive item-level plan by region and channel, extending up to 21 months into the future.

The ideal candidate will have the capability to influence and refine our LEGO Retail AMS plan, taking charge of the monthly submissions that encompass both consumer sales and selling in. Additionally, they will play a key role in developing future processes for the team, focusing on how we can effectively utilize the o9 planning system.

Do you have what it takes?

• Extensive planning experience preferably within a retail environment, covering digital & physical channels.
• Ability to assess plan feasibility at both high & low levels and identify areas requiring further focus with team.
• Ability to effectively communicate and articulate the key aspects of a demand plan through compelling storytelling, ensuring alignment and engagement among stakeholders at all levels.
• Previous experience using planning tools/systems and ability to identify & recommend product development opportunities to improve efficiency.
• Proactive in seeking out the latest data to improve plan accuracy and always focused on delivering outstanding results across all forecast KPIs.
• Demonstrates strong collaboration skills across various functions, cultures and management levels.
• Demonstrates leadership experience including supporting team members and leading cross functional meetings with senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading process change in a global setting. Gets energy from creating new ways of working, establishing new frameworks and ensuring process governance.
• Experience with leveraging big data and statistical modelling into the planning process.
• Results driven with a can-do mindset that thrives in overcoming challenges!

Additional details on this position:

• Our workplace enables our LEGO® colleagues to be and do their best roducing a flexible way of working through a hybrid working model is a great example of how we live up to our ambition. This 3 day in the office hybrid working model will exemplify our People Promise by embracing the different life situations of our colleagues.
• No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $ - $ based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive…