Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships

Job Description

Just imagine shaping the partnerships, alliances, and coalitions that help create lasting opportunities for children around the world. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships, you'll shape partnership strategy, guide portfolio decisions, and steward some of the most important external relationships, including the LEGO Foundation partnership. You'll oversee a global portfolio of NGO partnerships, coalitions, and strategic alliances function, setting the strategy, portfolio direction, and operating model for Social Responsibility's most impactful global partnerships. This person will own senior-level relationships with key external partners and alliances, including the LEGO Foundation, and drives strategic value creation across a diverse partnership ecosystem.

In this role you will shapes portfolio priorities, governance, and investment decisions to ensure partnerships deliver meaningful impact and advance enterprise objectives.

You will works closely with leaders across Brand, Corporate Communications, Sustainability, LEGO Education, regional teams, and Centres of Excellence to build alignment, unlock collaboration, and amplify impact. You will provide leadership to the partnerships team while ensuring the right balance of strategic ownership, governance, partnership stewardship, and delivery support across the portfolio.

Required Qualifications

• Led strategic partnerships, alliances, external affairs, philanthropy, or social impact portfolios at regional or global scale.
• Managed complex senior-level relationships across organisations, sectors, or geographies.
• Built partnership governance frameworks and portfolio management approaches that informed strategic decisions.
• Developed and coached teams through clear priorities, performance management, and professional growth.
• Delivered executive briefings, strategic communications, and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Assessed partnership performance, investment decisions, and portfolio effectiveness using qualitative and quantitative evidence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Worked with UN agencies, international NGOs, foundations, coalition platforms, or multi-stakeholder partnerships.
• Supported executive participation in high-profile external forums and stakeholder engagements.
• Led alliance management across complex partnership ecosystems.
• Combined experience across corporate, philanthropic, development, or social impact environments.

What you'll build

• A clear and future-focused partnership strategy that creates long-term value and impact.
• A high-performing portfolio aligned to organisational priorities and meaningful outcomes for children and communities.
• Strong executive relationships across priority NGO, foundation, coalition, and alliance partners.
• Effective governance, decision-making processes, and ways of working across the partnership ecosystem.
• A productive and strategically aligned relationship with the LEGO Foundation.

If you've worked in a role where you balanced partnership impact, stakeholder priorities, investment decisions, and organisational goals, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to make thoughtful choices, build trusted relationships, and turn strategy into action.

Life on the team

You'll join a team focused on helping social impact efforts create greater value and reach. We work collaboratively across functions and through a hybrid rhythm that brings people together to solve complex challenges. Change agility, critical thinking, design thinking, storytelling, stakeholder relationship management, social engagement, business acumen, and collaboration are important parts of how the team works and learns together.

What success looks like

Over the next 12 to 18 months, you'll strengthen partnership governance, refine portfolio choices, and identify new opportunities for collaboration, learning, and influence. You'll work closely with the Senior Director, VP Social Impact, colleagues across Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Communications, Public Affairs, regional teams, and senior external partners to advance meaningful outcomes for children and communities.

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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.

Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here

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.