Business Partner Lead (Senior Account Director), Our LEGO Agency

Job Description

Are you an experienced account leader from the advertising agency world, with a deep understanding of car culture, looking for your next role?

Then get your application ready - Our LEGO Agency (OLA) is looking for you!

OLA is an internal full-service agency serving the internal business partners of the LEGO Group. The work spans broadly from communication strategies and concepts to the development of design and visual identity, packaging, product, and campaign related assets of all kinds.

Our Business Partner Lead for the vehicles business is a senior member who is integral to driving our portfolio of vehicles projects with the full team – we are looking for someone with the right professional background as well as a true passion and deep knowledge of vehicles and experiential marketing.

Core Responsibilities

• Overall, co-responsible (with Ops, Creative and Strategy Planning Leads) for the culture of the vehicles team, the quality of the work, delivery on time and working conditions for Our LEGO Agency vehicles teams.

• Stakeholder management and quality of internal partner relationships – you are responsible for these relationships and the spirit in which we partner with our key partners and stakeholders.

• Set the standard and expectations for business partnering on the LEGO Vehicles business – you are day to day setting the standard for the vehicles team aided by our functional leads on business partnering and integrated project management team across Our LEGO Agency business partnering.

• Selling the work – you are responsible for “selling” the work to our partners and avoiding the churn in development.

• Being on top of our business performance and driving learnings from past programs and campaigns into our team.

• Bringing other brand and competitive thinking and ideas into the team with regular competitive reviews and ensuring that we are learning and adopting outside in perspectives.

• Develop strong relationships with our direct business-owners, and key heads of departments in OLA.

• Support the Head of Integrated Services and/or Head of Agency on new scope developments, working collaboratively with other agency departments, including OLA leadership team. 

• Strong relationships with the hub leads - securing the necessary involvement of OLA Hubs to ensure that regional needs are being met and that regional amplification of campaigns continues in line with global strategy and concept.

Play your part in our team succeeding  

Our LEGO Agency (OLA) is an organization that focuses on delivering best-in-class campaigns, insight driven & fit for purpose solutions across the LEGO Group. The global development is driven out of the LEGO Group’s headquarters in Billund, Denmark. OLA also has offices in Copenhagen, Boston, London, Singapore and Shanghai. 

“I joined the LEGO Group a year ago, and I couldn’t be loving it more. These roles don’t come up very often, so this is a great opportunity for someone who is hungry to learn and get stuck in. There is an open and respectful culture, a deep ambition for the work, and a real passion for the role of play in developing the builders of tomorrow — it doesn’t get better than that!”

Do you have what it takes?

• Proven experience within a creative agency, where you have been the business or account lead running big global integrated businesses/clients.

• Influential and a brilliant relationships person with a proven track record of making amazing creative work.

• Proven track record in and deep passion within the vehicles/cars culture and developing creative for this specific business area.

• Fluent in modern marketing models including social and experiential campaigns and programs.

• Super strategic with strong business acumen, communication and writing skills that include executive summaries, memos, pre-reads, briefs and presentation materials for very senior forums.

• Comfortable working with stakeholders at all levels of the organization, including the C-suite.

• A deep passion for creativity and creative effectiveness.

Nice to have

• Proactive, takes initiative and runs at problems.

• Experience with sports or event-based marketing.

• A solid understanding of social media and influencer landscape.

• Strong mentor to other business partner teams.

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 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 global commitment to Children’s Rights.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.