Global Director, Sustainable Logistics & Distribution

Job Description

About the role

As our Global Director, Sustainable Logistics & Distribution, you'll lead the development and execution of the LEGO® Group's global logistics sustainability strategy across warehousing and transportation operations. You'll establish a robust emissions baseline, define decarbonization pathways, and drive measurable progress toward climate ambitions. Working closely with Sustainability, Procurement, and Distribution teams, you'll help shape a lower-carbon logistics network through operational improvements, supplier engagement, and innovative technologies.

Required Qualifications

• Led logistics sustainability and decarbonization strategies across complex multinational operations.
• Delivered carbon accounting frameworks and Scope 3 emissions management programmes with measurable outcomes.
• Managed global supply chain and transportation initiatives spanning multiple regions.
• Built emissions reporting models, dashboards, and decision-support tools for business leaders.
• Directed enterprise-wide sustainability or transformation programmes from strategy through implementation.
• Influenced senior leaders, suppliers, and external partners to adopt large-scale change initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications

• Applied Transport Management Systems and Warehouse Management Systems to improve logistics performance.
• Used life cycle assessment methodologies to support sustainability decisions.
• Combined advanced sustainability analytics with business planning and reporting.
• Evaluated commercial and operational impacts of sustainability initiatives.

What you'll build

• A validated global logistics emissions baseline across warehousing and transportation activities.
• A multi-year decarbonization roadmap aligned with climate commitments and operational priorities.
• Governance, reporting, and KPI frameworks that improve visibility and accountability.
• Emissions reduction initiatives across transportation modes, warehousing, supplier partnerships, and operational processes.
• Sustainability requirements embedded into supplier relationships, contracts, and performance management.

If you've worked in a role where you transformed logistics or supply chain networks while delivering measurable CO₂ reductions, you'll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to turn ambitious goals into practical action and use data to guide decisions.

Life on the team

You’ll join Global Distribution & Logistics within Supply Chain Operations, a team focused on delivering efficient, resilient, and increasingly sustainable logistics across the global network. We work closely across regions and functions, sharing accountability and making decisions based on evidence and collaboration. Strategic thinking, stakeholder partnership, programme leadership, and thoughtful change management are part of how we work every day.

What success looks like

Success means turning a complex challenge into clear progress. You’ll help build global sustainability capabilities, improve emissions visibility, and accelerate decarbonization across the logistics network. You’ll work closely with Climate & Sustainability teams, Global Procurement, Regional Logistics Operations, Finance, Supply Chain Leadership, logistics providers, carriers, and industry stakeholders as sustainability becomes an increasingly important part of how the network performs and grows.

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 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 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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