Job Description
Play your part in our team success
LOM Component Planning is a Consumer Driven Operation with the mission to deliver components at the right time, at the right quality, and in the most cost-efficient way.
The Senior Planning Manager heads up the LOM Component Production Planning team, consisting of 8–10 employees. The Senior Planning Manager is a key player in ensuring motivation and satisfaction remain high among highly skilled analysts/planners.
The Senior Planning Manager needs to be strong in both people management and partner management to ensure we balance feasibility and costs optimally in an environment with different focus areas and department initiatives. Strong people management skills are essential to align and motivate diverse teams, manage competing priorities, and drive accountability across functions. By effectively coaching, developing, and coordinating team members, the role ensures consistent execution, clear communication, and efficient decision-making, ultimately enabling the organization to adapt quickly while maintaining high performance and cost discipline.
Core responsibilities
Own Master Production Scheduling for LOM Component Planning
Own Shop Floor Scheduling for LOM Component Planning
Lead a team of LOM component production planners, including setting targets and direction for the team
Secure high day-to-day involvement with the LOM component production planning team and ensure that tasks handled by this team are completed within the agreed timeframes
Cover responsibility for global processes with local ownership. This can be either as a local owner or as a global counterpart.
Be part of the GSCO extended Leadership Team and LOM Moulding LT
Do you have what it takes?
Minimum 5 years of supply planning or manufacturing experience
Deep planning expertise and ability to articulate key supply chain dependencies and planning principles
1.5+ years of leadership and people management experience
Ability to deliver results consistently and execute the agenda laid out. The results are very much based on the ability to find the right balance between service and costs.
As a leader, secure that employees remain motivated in an environment with many changes and short deadlines.




Actively encourage own team and others to share different viewpoints in order to generate an integrated understanding of issues and opportunities, and to encourage innovation.
Great communicator, both orally and in writing, with supply chain experts, production managers, and technical engineers, with the ability to obtain the needed level of insight into both areas in order to be successful.
Flexibility due to time zones
Since solutions to constraints and supply dilemmas most often require cross-functional involvement, the owner of this role must navigate in an environment of conflicting interests and still be able to drive the right decisions that serve the LEGO Group best.
Nice to have
Experience driving and leading projects
Ability to link short-term planning to longer-term operational impact and identify risks and opportunities linked to production planning
Invests in building strong and sustainable relationships with others based on clearly defined priorities and accountabilities
Due to the mix of high complexity in data analysis and the practical layers of production constraints, the owner of this role must apply critical thinking to all data before making recommendations or decisions.
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 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.
Wellbeing
– We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs 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 –
You'll find this at the top of this advert and when you join the team, we'll confirm this with you.
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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.
We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to "inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow."
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 integral commitment to Children's Rights.
We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.
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