Senior Manager, Global Insights CoE - 8-Month Fixed Term Contract

Job Description

Just imagine shaping the research that helps the LEGO® Group make smarter decisions across Digital Consumer Engagement and Gaming. Then make it real.

About The Role

As our Senior Manager, Global Insights CoE, you'll lead research projects that help the LEGO Group make better decisions through evidence and insight. This is an 8-month parental cover contract running from October 2026 to June 2027. You'll partner closely with Global Insights Business Partners and stakeholders to define, deliver, and apply impactful research. You'll connect insights across multiple sources, help evolve research practices, and contribute to a stronger insights capability that supports strategic decisions across the business.

This is a Senior Manager level Individual Contributor role.

Please note Relocation support is not available for this role.

We offer a flexible hybrid working model known as Best of Both, with 3 days in our London office and 2 days working from home.

Required Qualifications

• Delivered end-to-end research programmes that informed strategic business decisions.
• Translated business needs into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Led consulting engagements that connected research findings to business priorities.
• Built research approaches that addressed business questions and drove measurable outcomes.
• Influenced stakeholders through compelling research findings and evidence-based recommendations.
• Presented insights and recommendations to a range of stakeholders, supporting decision-making and action.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Applied research expertise within toys, games, or children's industries.
• Developed innovation-focused research methodologies to support new products, services, or experiences.
  
  

What You'll Build

• Innovation and Consumer research programmes aligned to Digital Consumer Engagement and Gaming priorities.

Stronger connections between existing and emerging insights to drive business value.

Frameworks that monitor the value and impact of digital engagement activities.

Greater adoption and use of insights across business teams and Global Insights squads.

New approaches and experimentation within research disciplines.

If you've worked in a role where you translated business needs into research, delivered clear recommendations, and influenced decisions through evidence, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to turn insight into action and create impact through research.

Life on the team

You'll join the Global Insights Centre of Excellence, a central insights team supporting innovation, marketing, performance measurement, and brand research across the LEGO Group. We're a collaborative, business-focused team with a flexible hybrid rhythm and a strong focus on outcomes. Strategic thinking, clear communication, adaptability, continuous learning, and strong stakeholder partnerships help us work effectively across teams, disciplines, and locations.

What Success Looks Like

You'll be known for guiding complex innovation research, connecting diverse insight sources, and helping others use evidence to make better decisions. Over the coming months, the team will continue strengthening its insights capability, advancing research methods, and supporting growing Digital Consumer Engagement and Gaming priorities. You'll work closely with Global Insights Business Partners, internal stakeholders, specialist insights teams, and external research partners to help shape more informed decisions across the business.

Please include your availability to start the role in your application or cover letter.

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.