Data Director CFO / PPC / CXT

Lego Group; København; Presencial; Confidential; Tempo integral

Benefícios oferecidos por esta vaga

Family Care Leave

Insurance (life & disability)

Wellbeing resources

Colleague Discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid Working

Resumo da vaga

The LEGO Group is seeking a senior leader to shape the data and AI agenda across finance and People, Places & Culture. Based in Copenhagen or Billund and fluent in English, you will lay the foundations for an embedded data and AI function with senior stakeholders and cross‑functional teams.

You’ll partner with executives to turn strategic opportunities into prioritized roadmaps, pilots, and scalable data capabilities that drive measurable business value across the organisation.

Qualificações

• Proven track record influencing senior stakeholders and delivering across boundaries.
• Turn business problems into data/AI roadmaps with solid business cases.
• Technical depth to judge feasibility with data science and engineering teams.
• Experience handling sensitive people data with governance and controls.
• Experience in consumer products, retail or a large multinational organization.
• Delivered use cases such as forecasting, workforce analytics, attrition prediction, or talent planning.
• Established a data/analytics function from the ground up.
• Familiarity with lakehouse and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience navigating HR systems, ERP complexity and data privacy requirements.
• Consulting or transformation background requiring influence without authority.

Responsabilidades

• Define a data and AI vision for finance and people functions.
• Identify opportunities and turn them into prioritised roadmaps and business cases.
• Bring together data, analytics, product and engineering teams to deliver early proofs of concept and pilots.
• Assess what data is available, missing or trustworthy, and identify improvements needed.
• Represent the business’s needs to the enterprise data platform team, helping the platform evolve.
• Define the skills, roles and ways of working for a future embedded data and AI team.
• Help leaders understand what data and AI can do, identify more ambitious opportunities.

Conhecimentos

Stakeholder management

Roadmap development

Data governance

Data modelling

Finance/HR domain knowledge

Data platform familiarity

Ferramentas

Lakehouse architectures

Cloud-native platforms

ERP systems navigation

Descrição da vaga

Job Description Just imagine shaping how the LEGO® Group uses data and AI to create meaningful outcomes across finance and people functions. Then make it real.

Job Description 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

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.

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.

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