Inventory Manager (m/f/d)

Job Description

Are you ready to join a high performing Operations team where you can drive significant commercial impact through operational excellence for a leading toy brand and its retail partners?

Use your technical and leadership skills to drive mutual value creation through optimized retail stock deployment for the LEGO Group and its retail partners in the DACH region!

Please note This position will be based in our LEGO® Office in Grasbrunn, close to Munich and will follow a hybrid working model with 3 days in the office and up to 2 days remotely. Relocation support is not offered.

The closing date for applications will be Thursday 21st May 2026.

Core Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end retail (B2B) inventory performance for the DACH market, including optimal and actual partner stock levels, availability, aging, and write-off risk across channels.
• Define and implement the BU inventory strategy in partnership with Regional and Global Supply Chain and Market Operations, BU Operations, Sales, Commercial Development, Marketing, and Finance.
• Lead inventory governance routines, presenting insights and recommendations to senior collaborators up to Director and VP level.
• Drive working-capital optimization through proactive management of important launches, slow-movers, excess stock, and phase-in/phase-out transitions.
• Build and maintain analytics, dashboards, and reporting frameworks that provide transparency into inventory metrics and enable data-driven decisions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to align on forecast accuracy, replenishment policies, and service-level targets.
• Identify and lead continuous-improvement initiatives across inventory processes, systems, and ways of working.
• Act as the subject-matter expert on inventory topics for the EUC BU, driving the Inventory Management functional and leadership agenda.

Play your part in our team succeeding!

Europe Central (EUC) Business Unit Operations enables best-in-class commercial and supply chain execution across the DACH market — one of the LEGO Group's largest and most strategic regions. The department covers S&OP, demand planning, order management, inventory management, customer service, logistics, product master data, and data exchange, providing the operational backbone for Sales, Marketing, and other market functions.

As Inventory Manager, you will bring value by influencing an optimized product mix at retailers, driving the right distribution of LEGO products across the market and ultimately helping to get them into the hands of shoppers and consumers. Sitting at the intersection of demand, supply, commercial, and finance collaborators, the role safeguards inventory health across the BU, drives working-capital efficiency, and ensures product availability aligns with sales ambitions and the LEGO Group's long-term growth agenda.

Do You Have What It Takes

• Proven experience in retail inventory management within a multinational FMCG, retail, or consumer goods organization — retail front-end focus is essential (not warehousing).
• Excellent understanding of S&OP, working capital management, and end-to-end retail supply chain operations, ideally across multiple markets and channels.
• Strong analytical capability, with the ability to synthesize data from multiple sources and translate findings into clear recommendations for senior colleagues.
• Strong storytelling and communication skills — able to manage the narrative, simplify complexity, and drive retail mutual value creation with commercial partners.
• Customer collaboration mentality with a track record of building positive relationships with retail partners.
• Ability to tackle complex problems in volatile environments, prioritize effectively, and drive better business outcomes.
• Collaborative and cross-functional by nature; thrives in matrixed, global environments.
• Strong command of SAP and Business Warehouse, advanced proficiency in Excel, Power BI, SQL, and VBA for reporting, automation, and analytics.
• Fluent English and preferably German — both written and verbal
• Curiosity and willingness to challenge the status quo, in line with LEGO Group leadership behaviors.

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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