Vice President, Global Analytics & Insights

Job Description

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.

This Role

• Our regional Commercial Analytics team – one for each regional Market Group and LEGO Retail/D2C, fully integrated into the regions to drive regional insights.
• The global enablement organisations that act as data owners, work closely with the Data Office, and build models using data bricks.
• The Global Commercial and Advanced Analytics area that uses sophisticated methods to cross‑examine data and answer global strategic questions.

Core Responsibilities

Leadership

• Lead a large and diverse team of functional experts, creating 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 a global team of A&I expertise, inspiring career opportunities and infusing digital expertise into the 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 stronger business insights through analytics, information visualisation, and proactive resolution of unanswered business issues.
• Effectively communicate subject‑matter expertise to various stakeholders company‑wide.
• Explore future ways of working with an advanced analytic approach.
• Generate long‑term data insights informing strategic commercial choices.

Data Systems, Governance, and Processes

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

Qualifications

• Proven leadership track‑record in driving transformational agendas and creating followership throughout the organisation.
• Experience in a global analytics and insights leadership role.
• Track record of inspiring teams to translate commercial data into actionable insights that deliver business impact.
• Experience in consumer‑goods companies; preferably experience in both B2B and D2C.
• Strong experience in data management, analytical analysis, and driving insights.
• Experience navigating change and leading 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 refine predictions.
• Experience building and testing predictive models within a sales organisation.
• Willingness to challenge the status quo and speak up.

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $333,638.00 - $500,456.00, based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organisational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers compensation factors such as prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and legal considerations. Comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the offer.

Benefits

• Enhanced paid leave options for important life events.
• Life and disability insurance covering all colleagues.
• Wellbeing initiatives, including access to the Headspace app and other local programmes.
• Generous colleague discount available from day one.
• Bonus scheme tied to achievement of business goals.
• Hybrid work policy – an average of 3 days per week in the office, with eligibility discussed during recruitment.

EEO and Equal Employment Opportunity

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and belongs.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds – including sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status – to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing worldwide. Candidates in roles with significant child engagement are required to undergo Child Safeguarding Background Screening as a condition of the offer.

We conduct drug screening as part of a drug‑free workplace policy, supporting the health and safety of our employees.

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