data director for finance and people

The LEGO Group creates products and experiences inspired by children’s curiosity, creativity and imagination.

• 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

• 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
• Будет плюсом: experience in consumer products, retail or a large multinational organisation; delivery of use cases such as financial forecasting, scenario modelling, workforce analytics, attrition prediction, talent planning or employee experience measurement; establishing 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

• Family Care Leave with enhanced paid leave options
• Life and disability insurance
• Wellbeing resources and benefits, with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity
• Colleague discount from day 1
• Eligible colleagues may receive a bonus through the bonus scheme when goals are reached
• Hybrid work model allows working from home up to two days per week; applicability depends on the role and team
• Child Safeguarding Background Screening is required for candidates offered positions with high engagement with children