Job Description

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/ecommerce and marketing/promotional 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

Partner with Promotions & Marketing digital product teams to ensure high quality data is collected and published to LEGO Nexus (databricks) to a standard fit for purpose for downstream delivery of data products.
Transform, cleanse and enrich data to create self-serve data sources for use across Marketing, the broader A&I and LEGO® Retail teams & other data consumers (ie personalization, digital consumer engagement).
Develop self-serve dashboards regarding Marketing & Promotions, and establish the use of these tools with LEGO Retail and broader Commercial colleagues to drive data driven decision making.
Collaborate with colleagues, specifically Promotions, Marketing, Data Science and A&I Commercial Analytics to continually iterate and enrich data product & overall data availability.
Enable LEGO® Retail specific data understanding and champion data literacy via guidelines, training, drop-in sessions, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
Partner with the Data Office to ensure platforms, tools & processes meet business needs; acting as inputters, collaborators, testers and/or ambassadors.
Consistently champion best practices in data product development within the team, across LEGO® Retail and with the broader analytics community, helping ensure data integrity, -quality, and -scalability of overall LEGO® Retail data products on the LEGO Data Platform.

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 optimization purposes and tactical and strategical decision recommendations. The key partners of this role will initially be heavily focused in Marketing & e-Commerce but have potential to expand to be multifunctional in areas such as Stores, Finance, Operations etc.

This role is essential as we further invest in our digitization agenda, and our new data strategy, including scaling 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. This role will help both enrich our current data landscape and bring new data variables to life, but also enable important data development projects around the business to use LEGO® Retail data that will both increase accuracy in the models and speed up insights to action.

Do you have what it takes?

Data Specialist, Data Solutions and/or Data Engineering experience.
Strong skills in SQL and/or Python or similar experience in manipulating large structured and unstructured datasets.
Strong skills in data visualization – Power BI or similar.
Experience in the Retail industry, preferably with Marketing/Promotional experience.
Can provide technical context, translating technical constraints and trade-offs to colleagues within non-technical roles, including leadership.
Thorough and detail oriented, strong adaptability and focus to deliver results.
Dedicated, with ability to take ownership and accountability of initiatives.
Collaborative personality with an #OneTeam approach.
Positive can-do attitude, with natural curiosity and bravery to challenge constructively.
Willing to travel approximately 10 days a year.
Fluent English skills both verbal and written.

Nice to have

Cross-culture understanding of working with global colleagues and partners across multiple time zones
Experience working with complex ETL processes and knowledge of data transformation best practices.
Familiarity with AGILE ways of working
University degree or equivalent experience or similar qualification in applicable subject [Mathematics, Sciences, BI, Analytics, etc.] OR practical experience with track record in relevant tools.

Additional Details On This Position

Our workplace enables our LEGO® colleagues to be and do their best at work. Introducing a flexible way of working through a hybrid working model is a great example of how we live up to our ambition. This 3 day in the office hybrid working model will exemplify our People Promise by embracing the different life situations of our colleagues.
No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $81,631.00 - $122,447.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

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 are some of what to 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 you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

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

Your 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.

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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

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.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

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