Vice President – Data & Analytics

Job Description

This role must be based in Billund, Copenhagen or Boston

This is a unique opportunity to transform the way the LEGO Group defines data, analytics & AI for the future!

As our Vice President for Data you will transform the way the business collects and leverages data with the intent to fuel critical decisions with invaluable insights, defining and implementing an AI strategy for both generative and traditional AI.

Data and analytics are essential to our future, and we have an ambition to become insights driven as an organization; using the power of data to drive better understanding of and relationship with our consumers.

We have defined an ambitious Data and Analytics Strategy and Roadmap for the LEGO Group, in order to drive this strategy forward at the pace required we are looking to bring in a VP, Data & Analytics to champion the journey ahead!

Play your part in our team succeeding

Reporting directly to our global CTDO, you will be responsible for the delivery of the full roadmap, and have ultimate accountability the Data Platform, Data Lake, Data Science Center of Excellence and delivering data products, insight and AI services globally. Additionally, you will lead a team of Data Engineers & Data Scientists and report to our CDTO as a member of their leadership team.

Core Responsibilities

• Deliver on the overall Data & Analytics strategy and roadmap
• Lead and develop a global team of data engineers, data scientists, data manager, analytics and BI resources
• Define and implement an AI strategy for TLG for both generative and traditional AI
• Raise the awareness of AI within the Rest of the Organisation (business sponsors and digital product teams) to ensure that AI (predictive or generative) is being considered where appropriate to help solve problems better and deliver additional value to our business
• Manage our current data science team and create a strategy to build out this capability to help our organisation best leverage productive and generative AI
• Help us become a data driven business by putting data in the heart of all decisions being made
• design and build our AI/ML products /microservices as required by our digital products
• Design, build and run your digital science products
• Create and implement a Data Insights Ecosystem, enabling all employees to access to information in real time, that is intuitive and user-friendly way.
• Delivering deep insights to inform business decisions using advanced data science and modelling approaches

Do you have what it takes?

• Significant data, analytics and AI experience in a global environment
• Consistent record of delivering data platforms and products and analytic services
• Proven Data Literacy: the ability to describe business use cases/outcomes, data sources and management concepts, and analytical approaches/options
• Understanding of how both predictive and generative AI works, familiar with where the industry is going and can provide clarity in a world that is changing so fast with a lot of hype
• Demonstrated leadership: proven track record of leading complex, multidisciplinary teams in new endeavours and delivering solutions
• Analytical skills: outstanding analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Familiarity with business information generation and analysis methods.
• Ability to effectively drive business, culture and technology change in a dynamic and sophisticated operating environment.
• The ability to explain digital concepts and data and analytics techniques to the business
• Experience using Agile and DevOps to deliver solutions

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.

Research shows that women and people from different minority backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.