Senior Manager, Capability Strategy & Portfolio

Responsibilities

• Translate future business priorities into clear capability plans and build frameworks to surface emerging skill gaps.
• Act as a strategic thought partner and chief of staff to the VP of People & Leadership Development (P&LD).
• Own the organizational capability portfolio, ensuring strategic coherence and managing the learning roadmap end-to-end.
• Curate the P&LD partner ecosystem by managing vendor strategy and senior relationships.
• Define and maintain playbooks, standards, and frameworks to drive consistent ways of working across the function.
• Govern measurement and impact frameworks to connect capability investment to organizational outcomes.

Requirements

• Proven ability to hold complexity and ambiguity at pace with a strategic mindset.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Experience turning high-level business strategy into actionable plans and frameworks.
• Senior-level credibility with experience influencing leaders and facilitating high-level conversations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complexity into clarity.
• Experience in portfolio, program, or planning management within a complex organization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to workforce planning, skills intelligence, or capability assessment.
• Experience working within or alongside HR, Talent, or Organizational Development (OD) functions.
• Familiarity with large-scale capability or learning ecosystems.
• Experience rationalizing supplier or partner networks.
• A genuine interest in the future of work and organizational capability.

Benefits

• Family Care Leave with enhanced paid options.
• Comprehensive life and disability insurance.
• Wellbeing resources to support physical and mental health.
• Generous colleague discount on LEGO products.
• Performance-based bonus scheme.
• Hybrid work model (average of 3 days per week in the office).

About the Company

The LEGO Group is driven by a mission to "inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow." We strive to create a diverse, dynamic, and inclusive culture of play where everyone feels safe, valued, and like they belong.