Data Specialist Share on: + **Location** London, United Kingdom + **Job ID** 0000026962 + **Category** Data & Analytics **Job Description** Are you interested in being a key contributor in enabling our LEGO® Retail organisation to understand its shoppers deeply and expand data transparency to drive data driven decisions that always put the shopper first? Now it's your chance! Please note the work location is in our London Hub and no relocation assistance is offered for this role. As we are in the holiday season, please note that there may be delays in the recruitment process. We thank you for your patience and understanding during this period. **Core Responsibilities** Bring your understanding of data platforms together with your retail/e-commerce 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! You will: + Partner with Shopper 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 build self-serve data sources for use across analytical teams, the broader A&I organisation, LEGO® Retail teams & other data consumers (ie personalization, digital consumer engagement). + Develop self-serve dashboards and establish the use of these tools with LEGO Retail and broader Commercial colleagues to drive data driven decision making. + Collaborate with colleagues across LEGO® Retail, Data Science and A&I Commercial Analytics to continually iterate and enrich data products & 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 optimisation purposes and tactical and strategical decision recommendations. The key collaborators of this role will initially be heavily focused in Marketing & e-Commerce but have potential to expand to be multifunctional in areas such as Stores, Finance, Operations etc. This role is essential as we further invest in our digitalization 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?** We’re looking for candidates with a solid foundation in a relevant field such as Mathematics, Sciences, Business Intelligence, or Analytics — either through formal education or hands-on experience with proven results using relevant tools. You bring experience as a Data Specialist, in Data Solutions, Analytics Engineering, or Data Engineering. You’re confident working with large structured and unstructured datasets and have solid skills in SQL, Python, or similar languages. You’re also comfortable building visualizations in Power BI or equivalent tools to support business decision-making. Ideally, you have worked in the Retail industry and are able to bridge technical and non-technical worlds — explaining constraints and trade-offs to colleagues at all levels, including leadership. You are thorough, detail-oriented, and passionate about delivering results, even in changing or complex environments. You take ownership, work independently, and thrive in collaboration, bringing a #OneTeam mindset. A positive, can-do attitude, natural curiosity, and the courage to challenge constructively are key to your approach. You’re fluent in English (spoken and written), and open to occasional travel (up to 10 days per year) for team meetings or workshops. **Nice to have:** + Cross-culture understanding of working with global colleagues and partners across multiple time zone + Experience working with ETL processes and knowledge of data transformation best practices. + Familiarity with agile ways of working. \#LI-BL1 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 is what you can 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 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. **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. 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. Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights. Just imagine building your dream career. Then make it real. **Join the LEGO® team today.**