Data & AI Director, Finance & People

Lego; København; Hybrid; DKK 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family care leave

Life & disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus potential

Hybrid work model

Background screening

Job summary

The LEGO Group is seeking a senior data and AI leader to partner with senior executives to shape a vision for data and AI across finance and people functions. You will translate business problems into prioritised roadmaps and investment cases, align data, analytics, product and engineering teams, and shepherd early pilots that prove value.

You will assess data availability, quality and governance, and define the future data platform needs while enabling responsible handling of sensitive people

Qualifications

• Experience winning over sceptical senior stakeholders and working through ambiguity and across organisational boundaries without direct authority.
• Experience turning business problems into prioritised data and AI roadmaps for finance or people functions, supported by business cases that secured leadership approval and investment.
• Technical depth to assess feasibility with data science and engineering teams, and a solid understanding of data governance, data quality and data modelling.
• Experience applying data and AI in finance, human resources or corporate functions, handling sensitive people data responsibly, working within financial controls and meeting rigorous standards.
• Fluent English

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders to define a data and AI vision for finance and people functions
• Identify opportunities and turn them into prioritised roadmaps and business cases that guide investment and secure leadership sponsorship
• Bring together data, analytics, product and engineering teams to deliver early proofs of concept and pilots that demonstrate practical value
• Assess available, missing and trustworthy data, and identify the improvements needed to deliver the plans
• Represent business needs to the enterprise data platform team and help evolve the platform to support them
• Define the skills, roles and ways of working needed for a future embedded data and AI team
• Help leaders understand what data and AI can do, identify more ambitious opportunities and use data in everyday decisions

Skills

Stakeholder management

Data strategy

Communication

English proficiency

Job description

The LEGO Group is seeking a senior data and AI leader to partner with senior executives to shape a vision for data and AI across finance and people functions. You will translate business problems into prioritised roadmaps and investment cases, align data, analytics, product and engineering teams, and shepherd early pilots that prove value.

You will assess data availability, quality and governance, and define the future data platform needs while enabling responsible handling of sensitive people