About the Role
Job Description: This is a rare opportunity for a senior leader to shape, prioritise, and drive the global retail development transformation agenda at scale. As Director of Global Programmes, Retail Development, you will own and orchestrate the full portfolio of complex, cross‑functional programmes that power our physical retail growth across global branded channels. From local market footprint strategies to globally scaled concepts, you will lead and support RD functional teams to turn ambition into executable, governed, and prioritised programmes. Sitting on the Global Retail Development Leadership Team, you will define what truly matters, bringing precise prioritisation, strategic clarity, and structured governance to a portfolio that spans new markets, new store formats, design evolution, real estate strategy, and global roll‑outs. You will balance forward‑looking portfolio planning and resource optimisation with senior stakeholder alignment, acting as the single point of visibility for programme health, risks, capacity, and outcomes.
Core Responsibilities
- Lead complex global programmes – Drive end‑to‑end delivery of large‑scale, multi‑year retail programmes spanning expansion, real estate, operations, and store development, ensuring projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest quality.
- Programme Governance & Risk Management – Establish and enforce robust governance frameworks, including stage‑gate management, escalation protocols, and inter‑dependency oversight across regions.
- Strategic Planning & Portfolio Management – Translate retail development priorities into a clear, actionable multi‑year programme roadmap, making data‑driven decisions on resource allocation, investment trade‑offs and CapEx/OpEx optimisation.
- Executive Stakeholder Leadership – Act as a trusted advisor to senior directors, VPs and other senior stakeholders, influencing decisions and providing clear, compelling updates on programme status, risks and value delivery.
- Cross‑Functional Collaboration – Operate independently across geographies and time zones, coordinating multiple priorities, aligning global, regional and market teams, and ensuring seamless execution across the retail portfolio.
- People Leadership & Capability Building – Lead, develop and performance‑manage a high‑performing team, building strategic programme management capability to scale global retail development initiatives.
Key Qualifications
- Retail expertise & cross‑functional programme leadership – Proven track record of leading complex, multi‑year programmes across expansion, real estate, operations and store development.
- End‑to‑end programme ownership – Ability to own large‑scale global programme portfolios from concept through execution, ensuring delivery on time, on budget and to quality standards.
- Governance & risk management – Deep expertise in governance frameworks, stage‑gate management, escalation handling, go/no‑go decisions and managing cross‑regional dependencies.
- Commercial acumen & data‑driven decision making – Experience managing significant CapEx and OpEx budgets, evaluating business cases and making investment trade‑offs to optimise return.
- Senior stakeholder management & influence – Trusted advisor to senior leaders, with exceptional executive communication, presentation and relationship management skills.
- Global, fast‑paced delivery & people leadership – Comfortable working independently across geographies and time zones, managing multiple priorities while leading and developing teams.
- Fluency in English – Both written and verbal.
Benefits
- Family Care Leave – Enhanced paid leave options for important times.
- Insurances – Life and disability insurance covering all colleagues.
- Wellbeing – Resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing, and opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
- Colleague Discount – Generous discount from day 1.
- Bonus – Rewarded through a bonus scheme when goals are reached and you are eligible.
- Workplace – Hybrid work policy with an average of 3 days per week in the office; primary workplace location will be discussed during recruitment.
Equal Employment Opportunity
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds to apply for roles in our team. We are 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.
Application Notes
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. The closing date for all applications is Friday 26th June 2026. We do reserve the right to amend or withdraw our jobs at any time.
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