Innovation Catalyst Director

Job Description

Join us in spearheading change and fostering innovation from within.

Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of play, inspiring teams, and orchestrating impactful initiatives that carve new pathways for growth. This role presents a unique opportunity to help children experience the fun of learning through play while instilling innovative mindsets across our organization.

Lead Internal Innovation Program:

• Collaborate with internal partners to solve innovation challenges by developing overall vision and strategy for the program incl. services offered, capabilities needed and processes and tools.

• Establish Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) focusing on value generated and collaborator benefits.

• Develop a funding model for program engagements.

• Cultivate an adaptable and effective innovation toolbox, encompassing strategic foresight, design thinking, business model development, and facilitation techniques.

• Promote the program internally and drive wider adoption of learning and tools created.

• Collaborate with lead innovation catalysts and internal partners to mature innovation challenges.

• Co-develop and deliver solutions by framing the innovation challenge, facilitating discovery and defining options for pursuit, assisting internal partners in prioritizing options, supporting the development of innovation roadmaps, co-creating examples of solutions, facilitating investment requests, identifying insights gaps and defining necessary experiments.

• Define the necessary team composition to address internal partner challenges. Empower teams to deliver against challenges through direct and informal leadership.

• Develop prioritization criteria for internal partner challenges and secure buy-in from senior collaborators.

Creative Play Lab exists to create a compelling innovation pipeline consisting of new and engaging LEGO experiences that delight and inspire the builders of tomorrow. Creative Play Lab activities span wide from pioneering play experiences and innovative business models to fresh Go-to-Market strategies. Additionally, we focus on strategic portfolio innovations that enhance our core franchises, ensuring a dynamic and future fit approach to every facet of our work.

The Innovation Catalyst Director will play a crucial role in disseminating the innovator attitude and toolbox throughout the LEGO Group via our Internal Innovation Program.

• Extensive experience working within the field of innovation consultancy and innovation programs. Proven track record in driving innovation projects for customers/clients, ideally in projects end to end (from strategy to idea creation and development to launch).

• Experience working with strategy and value proposition development in the context of Innovation.

• Proficient expertise in facilitating workshops at all organizational levels.

• Strong commercial approach and understanding.

• Strong communication skills and proficiency in English (presentations, workshops, discussions).

• Leadership experience – a teammate that understands how to build a successful team that works well together.

• A personality that thrives working with high level of uncertainty and ambiguity and comfortable finding and defining the answers and taking ownership of direction to go.

• If London based, high willingness and flexibility to travel to Billund (~monthly).

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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. 

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