Are you interested in being a people leader and key contributor in enabling LEGO System A/S's Markets & Channels organization to understand its commercial impact deeply? Expand data transparency to drive data-driven decisions that always put the shopper first.
Bring your understanding of data platforms together with your leadership skills, retail knowledge, and natural curiosity into play in this role. Be part of a pioneering data and analytics team bringing digital transformation to life in LEGO System A/S's commercial areas.
Core Responsibilities
Lead a team of five Analytics Engineers and Associate Analytics Engineers, heading up the Analytics Engineering Delivery sub-team in M&C Analytics Engineering.
Collaborate closely with the Analytics Interface, Commercial Analytics, and business teams to turn business requirements into an AI-enabling data product backlog.
Partner with the Analytics Innovation and Automation and Data Office Product teams to create and deliver the roadmap for prototyping and delivering cutting-edge features across the Data Platform. Ensure platforms, tools, and processes meet business needs.
Be responsible for the overall delivery of data products across all Commercial pillars. Ensure data products follow CI/CD best practice, adhere to data quality frameworks, including assertion checks, and have performance and cost optimisation applied.
Drive Unity Catalog governance (schemas, access, metadata tagging) to improve data accessibility in a highly controlled, compliant environment.
Coach the team to enable Markets & Channels specific data understanding and champion data literacy via guidelines, training, drop-in sessions, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
Drive the Commercial data availability agenda. Collaborate with Shopper & Partner (D2C & B2B) digital product teams to ensure high-quality data is collected and published to LEGO Data Platform (Databricks) to a standard fit for purpose for downstream delivery of data products.
Consistently champion and revise best practices in data product development within the team, across Markets & Channels and with the broader analytics community. Help ensure data integrity, quality, and scalability of overall data products on the LEGO Data Platform.
Play your part in LEGO System A/S's team succeeding
The overall department’s key focus is to enable self-service data products for Markets & Channels (Commercial) data consumers and decision-makers. This helps shape data-driven actions for both operational optimisation purposes and tactical and strategic decision recommendations.
Within this mandate, the Analytics Engineering team’s responsibility is to build an AI-enabled data foundation LEGO System A/S can rely on.
The Analytics Engineering delivery team consists of the more junior engineers, requiring more technical coaching and guidance.
The key stakeholders of this role will be focused on LEGO System A/S's A&I and broader Commercial organization but have potential to expand to be multifunctional in areas such as Data Science, Marketing, Finance, Operations, etc.
This role is essential as LEGO System A/S strives to build a world-class analytics organization, capable of delivering scalable data products, AI-driven insights, and real decision intelligence.
Do you have what it takes?
Considerable Analytics Engineering, Data Solutions, Data Engineering, and/or Data Specialist experience.
Proven leadership experience within a technical team or project.
Expert skills in SQL and/or Python, or similar experience in manipulating large structured and unstructured datasets.
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and knowledge of data transformation and information architecture best practices.
Can provide technical context and direction, translating technical constraints/trade-offs to colleagues within non-technical roles, including senior leadership.
Be thorough and detail-oriented, with strong adaptability and a focus on delivering results.
Possess a strong collaborative personality with a #OneTeam mindset.
Exhibit a positive can-do attitude, with natural curiosity and bravery to challenge constructively.
Be willing to travel 10 days a year.
Have fluent English skills, both verbal and written.
Not essential, nice to have!
Cross-cultural understanding of working with global colleagues and partners across multiple time zones.
Familiarity with Agile ways of working.
Strong understanding of Commercial Compliance topics such as Competition Law, GDPR, and Confidentiality.
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note LEGO System A/S does amend or withdraw its jobs and reserves the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role, LEGO System A/S encourages you to apply as soon as possible.
What’s in it for you?
Here is what you can expect from LEGO System A/S:
Family Care Leave - LEGO System A/S offers enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
Insurances – All colleagues are covered by LEGO System A/S's life and disability insurance, which provides protection and peace of mind.
Wellbeing - LEGO System A/S wants its people to feel well and thrive. LEGO System A/S offers resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing, along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
Colleague Discount – LEGO System A/S knows you'll love to build, so from day one you will qualify for LEGO System A/S's generous colleague discount.
Bonus - LEGO System A/S does its best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through LEGO System A/S's bonus scheme.
Workplace - When you join the team, you'll be assigned a primary workplace location, i.e., one of LEGO System A/S's offices, stores, or factories. LEGO System A/S's hybrid work policy means an average of three days per week in the office.
The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.
Children are LEGO System A/S's role models. Their curiosity, creativity, and imagination inspire everything LEGO System A/S does. LEGO System A/S strives to create a diverse, dynamic, and inclusive culture of play, where everyone feels safe, valued, and they belong.
LEGO System A/S is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay, and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (e.g., sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, and religion) to apply for roles in LEGO System A/S's team.
LEGO System A/S 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.
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