General Manager, Italy

Job Description
Does leading an iconic brand in a vibrant Italian market with a fantastic team sound like your dream opportunity?
As our new General Manager (GM), Italy, you will bring your excellent ability to lead an extremely ambitious commercial agenda as well as a growing organisation.
Play your part in our team succeeding
The GM will be responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of the LEGO® business across our Italian Market. As GM, you will continue to build the brand to the next level of desire & meaningfulness, focus on driving growth in the segments that have not yet reached their full commercial potential and therefore growing the business steadily & strongly (likely by double digits in the next business cycle). You will also own the further strengthening of our branded channel, e-commerce business, growing our penetration in the “Preschool”, “girls” and “adults” segments. To achieve all this, the future GM will need to put special emphasis on growth mindset, change agility, systems, processes, and ways of working to enable the Italian market to reach further potential.
The GM will lead a dedicated and growing team of around 60 commercial colleagues, located in Milan. The role also sits as part of our Western Europe Market Group leadership team.

Core Responsibilities

• Driving the further growth of our Italian business by catering to the demands of end consumers and shoppers as well as customers across all channels (branded channels, toy specialist retailers, hypermarkets, drug stores, online retailers, distributors etc.) in an environment that is rapidly changing and highly competitive.
• Translating global strategy into Italian-specific sales and marketing tangible results. Putting a strong focus on leading the operational business – and especially, developing existing and new customer relationships.
• Own the financial target achievement setting (sales, cost and profit) in the Italian business unit. Driving a steady growth agenda whilst ensuring unerring focus on profitability and credit risk.
• Leading the digitalization of the consumer journey and the growth of e-commerce across the business unit.
• Overseeing deploying LEGO Groups owned ecosystem, such as LEGO® stores and LEGO.com
• Finally, the Italian BU also includes responsibility for our branded channels business for the South of Europe, working closely with some of our key strategic partners for this geography.
  

Do you have what it takes?
The ideal candidate will bring a successful track record of driving commercial success as a GM (or similar) with P&L responsibility ideally from a branded consumer products, fashion, or lifestyle business or a growing consumer-focused e-Commerce environment.
We are also looking for the following

• Ambitious with a strong growth mindset and proven track record of delivering results.
• Proven experience building and developing client relationships with distributors, specialist retailers, and pure e-commerce players.
• Demonstrated track record in driving digital transformation, developing an effective e-Commerce strategy and integrating e-Commerce/digital into a multi-channel strategy. Digital savviness and deep understanding of the digital societal transformation of consumers, shoppers and customers is expected.
• Preferably worked with European markets and brings international experience and mentality.
• Proficiency in English and Italian is required; knowledge of other foreign languages will be a plus.
• Results oriented with high ambition for the team.
• Depth of leadership, with consistent experience in building high-performing teams in a B2B and B2C environment.
• Demonstrated ability to challenge status quo and lead change in an engaging way.
  

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.
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