Data Director CFO / PPC / CXT

LEGO Brand Retail; Denmark; Hybrid; DKK 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Colleague discount

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

LEGO Brand Retail is seeking a strategic Data & AI leader to shape the data and AI agenda for finance and people functions in Denmark. The role offers hybrid work options and the chance to build foundational capabilities, not to inherit an existing team.

You will partner with senior leaders, translate business problems into data-driven roadmaps, and drive pilots that prove value while ensuring governance and privacy compliance across sensitive data.

Qualifications

• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and navigate ambiguity.
• Experience turning business problems into data/AI roadmaps with business cases.
• Technical depth to assess feasibility with data science and engineering teams.
• Experience handling sensitive HR/finance data with governance and controls.
• Experience in consumer products, retail, or large multinational organizations.
• Experience delivering use cases like forecasting, workforce analytics, attrition prediction.
• Experience establishing a data/analytics function from the ground up.
• Familiarity with lakehouse and cloud-native architectures.
• Navigating HR systems and ERP with data privacy requirements.
• Consulting or transformation background with influence without authority.

Responsibilities

• Define a data and AI vision for finance and people functions.
• Turn opportunities into prioritised roadmaps and business cases guiding investment.
• Lead cross-functional teams to deliver pilots that demonstrate practical value.
• Assess data availability, quality and trust, and identify improvements needed.
• Represent business needs to the enterprise data platform team.
• Define the skills, roles and ways of working for a future embedded data/AI team.
• Help leaders understand what data and AI can do and identify ambitious opportunities.

Job description

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Just imagine shaping how the LEGO® Group uses data and AI to create meaningful outcomes across finance and people functions. Then make it real. The role is based in Copenhagen or Billund. Fluency in English is required.

About the role

You'll shape and deliver the data and AI agenda for our Chief Financial Officer and People, Places & Culture organisations, bringing an outside perspective on how data and AI can help them achieve their goals. You won't inherit an established team: this is an opportunity to lay the foundations for one.

Required Experiences

• You've won over sceptical senior stakeholders and worked effectively through ambiguity and across organisational boundaries without direct authority.
• You've turned business problems into prioritised data and AI roadmaps for finance or people functions, backed by business cases that secured leadership approval and investment.
• You bring enough technical depth to judge feasibility with data science and engineering teams, supported by a solid understanding of data governance, data quality and data modelling.
• You've applied data and AI in finance, human resources or corporate functions, handling sensitive people data responsibly, working within financial controls and meeting the rigorous standards these areas require.

Preferred Experiences

• Experience in consumer products, retail or a large multinational organisation.
• Delivered use cases such as financial forecasting, scenario modelling, workforce analytics, attrition prediction, talent planning or employee experience measurement.
• Established a new data or analytics function from the ground up.
• Familiarity with modern data platform architectures, including lakehouse and cloud-native approaches.
• Experience navigating fragmented HR systems, ERP complexity and strict data privacy requirements.
• A consulting or transformation background requiring influence without authority.

What you'll build

• 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 what data is available, missing or trustworthy, and identify the improvements needed to deliver the plans.
• Represent the business's needs to the enterprise data platform team, helping the platform evolve 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.

Life on the team

You’ll report to the Vice President of the Data & AI Office within Digital Technology and sit on both the Data & AI Office leadership team and the Colleague Experience Technology leadership. Your Data & AI Office colleagues provide the enterprise data platform, governance and practices that help teams use data and AI responsibly.

What success looks like

By the end of your first year, senior leaders across finance and people functions will trust you as a partner, early pilots will have demonstrated value, and agreed priorities will be reflected in future investment plans.

What's in it for you?

• 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.

Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here

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