Senior Data Specialist

Are you interested in being a key contributor in enabling our LEGO® Retail organization to understand its shoppers deeply and expand data transparency to drive data driven decisions that always put the shopper first?

Bring your understanding of data platforms together with your retail knowledge and natural curiosity into play in this role to be part of a pioneering data and analytics team bringing digital transformation to life in our commercial areas!

Core Responsibilities

• Own and/or support the lead data specialist delivering key initiatives across the team, regarding data products, data policies, and data strategies.
• Help ensure data integrity, -quality, and -scalability of the team’s data products on the LEGO Data Platform (data contracts, CI/CD, efficient techniques).
• Consistently champion best practices in data product development within the team, across LEGO Retail and with the broader analytics community.
• Partner with the Data Office to ensure platforms, tools & processes meet business needs; acting as inputters, collaborators, testers and/or ambassadors.
• Coach and support less technical members in the team to deliver the highest quality data products, in line with industry standards.
• Enable LEGO® Retail specific data understanding and champion data literacy via guidelines, training, drop-in sessions, documentation, and knowledge sharing.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The department’s key focus is to enable self-service data products for LEGO® Retail data consumers and decision makers, helping shape data-driven actions both for operational optimisation purposes and tactical and strategical decision recommendations. The key collaborators of this role will be multifunctional in areas such as Marketing, Finance, Operations, Stores and e-Commerce.

This role is essential as we further invest in our digitization agenda and scale the LEGO® Data Platform to unlock the value from data across the LEGO® Group. In order to become truly data-driven, our first party retail and direct to consumer activity is the cornerstone to everything we do.

Do you have what it takes?

• Data Specialist, Data Solutions and/or Data Engineering experience
• Passion and curiosity for working with data
• Expert skills in SQL and/or Python or similar experience in manipulating large structured and unstructured datasets.
• Can provide technical context and direction, translating technical constraints / trade-offs to people within non-technical roles, including senior leadership.
• Hard-working, with ability to take ownership and accountability of large initiatives.
• Strong mentorship personality with a #OneTeam approach.
• Positive can-do mentality, with natural curiosity and bravery to challenge constructively.
• Willing to travel 10 days a year.
• Proficient English skills both verbal and written.

The position is based in Billund, DK and relocation support is not offered for this role.

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 underrepresented 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.

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