Country Manager, Taiwan

Job Description

Are you a senior commercial leader who would love to support our mission of inspiring and developing the builders of tomorrow in the Taiwan market?
 

Here's a fantastic job opportunity for you to lead and shape Taiwan’s next phase of growth acceleration, grow our brand penetration and channel presence!
 

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities:
 

Commercial

• P&L accountability for the entire LEGO Taiwan business.
• Responsible for the commercial (sales and marketing) strategy and execution to meet Gross Revenue, Consumer Sales and Brand Health (Active Consumer Base) targets.
• Lead and be responsible for the planning and development of Taiwan GTM, investment, & channel strategy to unlock strategic market & channel opportunities for further growth in collaboration with BU and regional partners.
• Manage and grow successful top-to-top working relationships and partnerships with our strategic customers and partners

People Leadership

• Direct people leadership for the Taiwan sales team and indirect office employee leadership of all Business Unit functions in the Taiwan office.
• Provide site leadership and be responsible for general health, safety, and office management for LEGO Taiwan staff.
• Build a positive and empowering environment to motivate all functional teams to work collaboratively to succeed together and deliver the performance expectations of Taiwan.
• Encourage and build the organization's strength in agility, transformation, and new innovations together with the BU Leadership Team.
• Be the lead role model and embed the LEGO Values & Leadership Playground Values in the LEGO Taiwan office.

Play your part in our team succeeding!

LEGO Taiwan is a sub-business unit of the Hong Kong & Taiwan Business Unit (BU HKTW) that is identified to have high growth potential across consumers, channels and portfolio segments in Asia. LEGO Taiwan has demonstrated her growth potential through past years’ successful growth!
 

People leadership and Culture are important factors of our success. This role has key and important responsibilities to embed our LEGO Values to the People culture and day-to-day engagement within LEGO Taiwan and indirectly with whole BU Hong Kong & Taiwan. Growing and developing our People for current success and future growth is also an important expectation of this role to ensure our People are growing together with our Brand and Business.

Do you have what it takes?

• A master's degree in a business-related field or equivalent working experience would be preferred.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience and a proven record of success in business performance, leadership, and marketing in brand-focused companies, retail, and fast paced consumer goods (FMCG) industries.
• Proven experience in successful GTM strategy and execution, opening new channels, and market expansion.
• Proven experience operating in multi-matrix organizational leadership, both direct and indirect, beyond one's own area of responsibility.
• Strong communication and people leadership skills are needed in engagement with both internal and external partners.
• Willingness to establish a strong sense of team accountability, regardless of functional hierarchy.
• High resilience in a dynamic and constantly evolving environment.
• Strong business proficiency in both written and spoken English and Mandarin (traditional Chinese) is a must.

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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