Address- Billund, Denmark
- London, United Kingdom
Job Description
Bring your analytical and strategic expertise and play an active role in supporting one of the fastest growing areas of our business!
Core Responsibilities
- Active member of the Retail Development Leadership Team
- Drive the long-term channel development, including preparing business cases for new stores
- Partner on real estate management and strategy, including store lease renewals
- Work on key strategic projects (Retail Platform, Contract re-negotiations…)
- Measure the effectiveness and ROI on store investments such as store maintenance & store fit-out
- Ensure the right financial guardrails and governance is in place for store investment decisions
- Provide financial support on store optimisation initiatives – including prioritisation of the right activities, measurement, and benefits tracking
- Provide day to day support to two Finance Managers
Play your part in our team succeeding!
LEGO Retail plays an integral part on delivering our reach to children while also supporting our premium/quality positioning as a brand. The LEGO Retail Finance team consists of ~16 colleagues based across Europe, the US and Asia. The role holder will report into the Stores Finance Director (who reports to the Head of LEGO Retail Finance Senior Director)
Do you have what it takes?
- Able to demonstrate financial capability/ management accounting proficiency
- Experience working within the finance area in a global organisation. This includes experience within commercial finance and Business Partnering
- Strong communication, collaboration, networking, and leadership skills are a requisite to ensure alignment and challenge business areas
- Finance retail real estate experience including new store business cases, lease negotiations, etc would be highly advantageous
- Comfortable challenging and influencing senior key partners
- Analytical with a strong end to end business understanding, proactively looking for opportunities to contribute to the business
- Passionate about unlocking insights through data
- Proficient in Excel; SAP would be beneficial
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What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to 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.
- Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
- 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 – 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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.
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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