People Strategy & Workforce Planning Senior Manager

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Job Description Are you passionate about turning strategy into action and enabling business success through smart workforce planning? Join our People Partnering & Culture team and play a key role in driving strategic priorities across LEGO ® Production. In this role, you will connect long-term business objectives with workforce planning and operational execution, ensuring we have the right capabilities, capacity, and initiatives in place to support future growth. Working closely with leaders across Operations, Finance, People Partnering, and global functions, you will lead critical projects, drive strategic initiatives, and own labor capacity planning processes that enable our factories and production teams to succeed. This position is placed in our Kladno manufacturing site and there is no relocation assistance offered for this role. Play your part in our team succeeding In this role, you will help translate strategy into action across LEGO Production. You will drive key strategic initiatives, lead cross-functional projects, and own workforce capacity planning processes that support both operational performance and long-term business goals. Moreover, you will: Lead and execute strategic projects and initiatives on behalf of the People Partnering & Culture organization (PPC). Drive the annual Strategy Deployment process, ensuring alignment between business priorities and PPC objectives. Own end-to-end labor capacity planning processes, including internal and external workforce requirements. Act as the PPC representative in the S&OP process, ensuring workforce capacity considerations are reflected in business planning. Partner with Operations, Finance, Rewards, People Partners, and other stakeholders to develop and execute workforce management strategies. Lead or contribute to critical global initiatives across areas such as workplace experience, health & safety, disability inclusion, and organizational effectiveness. Build strong partnerships with our Shared Service Center to support transitions, process improvements, and strategic projects. Do you have what it takes? Proven experience in HR, Manufacturing, Finance, Operations, Project Management, or a related field. Proven track record of leading complex projects and driving change in a manufacturing or operational environment. Strong analytical skills with experience building business cases and working with workforce capacity, labor cost, ROI, or similar business metrics. Experience working with S&OP or comparable planning processes and translating business demand into workforce capacity plans. Ability to influence stakeholders and drive alignment across multiple functions and organizational levels. Strong communication and relationship-building skills. Good understanding of Czech labor legislation and its application in a manufacturing environment. Fluency in English and Czech What would be an advantage: Experience leading regional or global projects. Experience supporting transitions into Shared Service Centers. Project management certification (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP, Agile, Lean Six Sigma). #LI-HS2 #LI-Hybrid 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 is what you can 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 our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity. 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. 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 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 and religion) to apply for roles in our team. The LEGO Group is fully committed to Chil