General Manager – Hungary, Greece and Adriatic
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Job Summary
Job Description
Are you ready to lead the LEGO Group business across a number of diverse and highly dynamic countries We are looking for a commercially minded General Manager to lead the strategic and operational management of the LEGO business across Hungary Greece and Adriatic (Croatia Slovenia Serbia Bosnia-Hercegovina North Macedonia Montenegro Kosovo Albania).
Core responsibilities:
- Drive the growth of the business by catering to the demands of end consumers as well as of customers across all channels (hypermarket drug stores specialist retailers LEGO Certified stores online retailers) in a growing environment that is rapidly changing and highly competitive.
- Set the strategic direction for the HGA business by also translating the Group strategy into country specific sales and marketing strategies including implementation activities.
- Focus on managing the operational business including developing the existing and new customer relationships.
- Financial target achievement (sales cost and profit) for the business driving an ambitious growth agenda whilst maintaining a focus on compliance and credit risk.
- Lead the digitalization of the consumer journey and growth of e-commerce across the business unit.
- Deploy the LEGO Groups owned ecosystem such as LEGO certified stores and
- Manage a dedicated and growing team of 50 (38 internal 12 external) in commercial functions in two offices (Budapest and Athens).
Play your part in our team succeeding!
The General Manager will be a member of the CEEMEA leadership team co-managing 100 markets across geographies such as Africa Central-Eastern Europe Middle East Türkiye and Africa. They will be co-responsible for creating the 3-year strategic cycle being the driver of various market group-wide transformation projects and accountable for business performance and people agenda across the region.
Do you have what it takes:
- The ideal candidate brings solid General Management experience and a strong track record of driving commercial success.
- In-depth sales experience in consumer products and/or lifestyle FMCG fashion or consumer-focused e-commerce.
- Experience working in a global context with demonstrated delivery within Central European markets. Hungary expertise is preferred.
- Depth of leadership with consistent experience in building high-performing teams in a B2B and B2C environment.
- Strong collaborator with the ability to build and develop client relationships with distributors specialist retailers as well as pure e-commerce players.
- Digitally savvy with a deep understanding of digital societal transformation of consumers shoppers and customers.
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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 youre interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Whats 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 youll 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 youll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
Workplace - When you join the team youll 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 seeksto 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 Childrens 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 Childrens Rights.
Just imagine building your dream career.
Then make it real.
Join the LEGO team today.
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Internal Audit
- Variance Analysis
- Financial Activities
- GAAP
- Journal Entries
- Account Management
- Customer Accounts
- Financial Records
- General Ledger Accounts
- Financial Statements
- Accounting and Finance
- Finance Department
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