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The LEGO Group is hiring a Data Specialist to enhance the LEGO Retail organization's data capabilities. The role involves partnering with digital product teams to manage and enrich retail data, develop self-serve dashboards, and promote data-driven decision-making across commercial areas. The specialist will collaborate with various teams to improve data quality and accessibility while championing best practices and data literacy.

Highlights

Partner with LEGO Brand Retail digital product teams to collect and publish high-quality data on LEGO Nexus (Databricks).
Transform, cleanse, and enrich data to create self-serve sources for multiple LEGO Retail teams and data consumers.
Develop dashboards using Power BI or similar tools to track retail metrics and support data-driven decisions.
Collaborate with Retail Excellence, Data Science, and Commercial Analytics teams to improve data products.
Champion data literacy through guidelines, training, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
Ensure data platforms, tools, and processes meet business needs in partnership with the Data Office.
Maintain data integrity, quality, and scalability of LEGO Retail data products on the LEGO Data Platform.
Required skills include SQL and/or Python expertise, experience with ETL processes, and retail industry knowledge.
Compensation ranges from $100,906 to $151,360 with a comprehensive benefits package.
Qualifications include data solutions/engineering experience and ability to communicate technical context to non-technical stakeholders.

Senior Data Specialist Full Description

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Category
Data & Analytics

Job Description

Are you interested in being a key contributor in enabling our LEGO® Retail organization to understand its shoppers deeply and expand data transparency to drive data driven decisions that always put the shopper first?

Bring your understanding of data platforms together with your retail/ecommerce knowledge and natural curiosity into play in this role to be part of a pioneering data and analytics team bringing digital transformation to life in our commercial areas!

Core Responsibilities

Partner with LEGO® Brand Retail (Stores) digital product teams to ensure high quality data is collected and published to LEGO Nexus (databricks) to a standard fit for purpose for downstream delivery of data products.
Transform, cleanse and enrich data to create self-serve data sources for use across LEGO® Brand Retail, Branded Channels, the broader A&I and LEGO® Retail teams & other data consumers (ie personalization, retail excellence).
Develop self-serve dashboards regarding LEGO® Brand Retail metrics, and establish the use of these tools with LEGO Retail and broader Commercial colleagues to drive data driven decision making.
Collaborate with colleagues, specifically Retail Excellence, Data Science and Commercial Analytics to continually iterate and enrich data product & overall data availability.
Enable LEGO® Retail specific data understanding and champion data literacy via guidelines, training, drop-in sessions, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
Partner with the Data Office to ensure platforms, tools & processes meet business needs; acting as inputters, collaborators, testers and/or ambassadors.
Consistently champion best practices in data product development within the team, across LEGO® Retail and with the broader analytics community, helping ensure data integrity, -quality, and -scalability of overall LEGO® Retail data products on the LEGO Data Platform.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The department’s key focus is to enable self-service data products for LEGO® Retail data consumers and decision makers, helping shape data-driven actions both for operational optimization purposes and tactical and strategical decision recommendations. The key partners of this role will initially be heavily focused in LEGO® Brand Retail but have potential to expand to be multifunctional in areas such as Marketing, Finance, Operations etc.

This role is essential as we further invest in our digitization agenda, and our new data strategy, including scaling the LEGO® Data Platform to unlock the value from data across the LEGO® Group. In order to become truly data-driven, our first party retail and direct to consumer activity is the cornerstone to everything we do. This role will help both enrich our current data landscape and bring new data variables to life, but also enable important data development projects around the business to use LEGO® Retail data that will both increase accuracy in the models and speed up insights to action.

Do you have what it takes?

Data Specialist, Data Solutions and/or Data Engineering experience.
Expert skills in SQL and/or Python or similar experience in manipulating large structured and unstructured datasets.
Experience working with complex ETL processes and knowledge of data transformation best practices.
Expert skills in data visualization – Power BI or similar.
Experience in the Retail industry.
Can provide technical context and direction, translating technical constraints / trade-offs to people within non-technical roles, including senior leadership.
Thorough and detail oriented, strong adaptability and focus to deliver results.
Dedicated, with ability to take ownership and accountability of large initiatives.
Strong collaborative personality with a #OneTeam approach.
Positive can-do attitude, with natural curiosity and bravery to challenge constructively.
Willing to travel 10 days a year.
Fluent English skills both verbal and written.

Nice to have:

Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Cross-culture understanding of working with global colleagues and partners across multiple time zone
Familiarity with AGILE ways of working
University degree or equivalent experience or similar qualification in applicable subject [Mathematics, Sciences, BI, Analytics, etc.] OR practical experience with track record in relevant tools.

Additional details on this position:

Our workplace enables our LEGO® colleagues to be and do their best at work. Introducing a flexible way of working through a hybrid working model is a great example of how we live up to our ambition. This 3 day in the office hybrid working model will exemplify our People Promise by embracing the different life situations of our colleagues.
No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

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Compensation
The salary for this position has a range of $100,906.00 - $151,360.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to expect:

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 you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based

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 – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”

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.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

Online Application Accessibility Statement; which is intended for people with disabilities - LEGO systems endeavors to make www.LEGO.com/jobs accessible to any and all users. If you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our web site or need assistance completing the application process, please contact the HR Service Desk at 1.860-763-7777, option #3. Please note, these communication channels should be used for those having difficulty accessing our on-line channels, not to inquire about job opportunities.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.

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