Vice President, Global Analytics & Insights

Job Description

The Vice President of Global Analytics and Insights at the LEGO Group is a senior leadership role responsible for leading all Analytics and Insights teams across the commercial organisation. On the functional side, this individual will leverage data and insights to drive business growth, optimise performance, and inform strategic decisions by advancing the integration of data science into the business. On the leadership side, they will focus on orchestrating our global teams effectively, reducing overlaps, and unlocking new capabilities across the organisation. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead a transformational journey, driving measurable commercial impact through the power of data.

Play your part in our team succeeding!

This role is responsible for 3 layers within A&I:

• i) our regional Commercial Analytics team, one for each regional Market Group as well as LEGO Retail, our D2C organisation – a business partnering model fully integrated into the regions, leveraging global teams whilst driving for regional insights,
• ii) our global enablement organisations, that act as data owner, working closely with the Data Office and building models using the data bricks,
• iii) our Global Commercial and Advanced Analytics area that uses sophisticated methods to cross-examine the data and answer global strategic questions.

Core Responsibilities:

Leadership:

• Lead a large and diverse team of functional experts, create a common vision and priorities.
• Lead the transformation in the A&I Organisation to enhance commercial strategies through data-driven insights, positioning the business for growth.
• Lead the evolution of one global team of A&I expertise with the aspiration of inspiring career opportunities and infusing digital expertise to business.
• Unify and advance functional capability building programs to further elevate A&I talent development.

Analytics:

• Elevate commercial insights to drive consumer sales and revenue growth through strategic data-driven decisions.
• Ensure global adoption of data-driven approaches for the purpose of generating stronger business insights through data analytics, information visualisation, and addressing unanswered business issues in a proactive manner.
• Effectively communicate on subject matter towards various stakeholders companywide.
• Explore future ways of working with an Advanced Analytic approach.

Data systems, governance and processes:

• Ensure analytics processes are tightly aligned with commercial objectives to drive actionable business outcomes.
• Drive alignment on global decision-making processes.
• Eliminate data and process silos and drive user adoption.
• Standardise and elevate (including leveraging AI) analytical tools to build better & more timely insights while maximising efficiency.
• Define the ways of working within Global Commercial Development and across Data office, the Global Insights team, BSO and other global teams – align the operating model and the service level agreement.

Do you have what it takes?

• Proven leadership track-record in driving transformational agenda whilst creating followership throughout the organisation.
• Experience in a global analytics and insights leadership role.
• Proven track record of inspiring teams to take commercial data and translate it into actionable insights that delivers business impact.
• Experience in consumer goods companies or similar. Furthermore, experience in both B2B & D2C is preferable.
• Strong experience in data management and analytical analysis and driving towards insights.
• Experience in navigating change and driving global teams through transformation.
• Strong leadership, project management, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to lead and develop global teams, experience with larger teams is a plus.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience with augmented analytics to analyse large volumes of data quickly, reveal insights, and make predicting the likelihood of future events more nuanced and more accurate.
• Experience with building and testing predictive models within a sales organisation.
• Ability and willingness to speak-up and to challenge the status quo.

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $333,638.00 - $500,456.00 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.