Head of Analytics & Insights, China

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Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, Shanghai, CHN
In-Office
Senior level
Kids + Family • Retail • Robotics
The Role
Lead the analytics function at LEGO China, providing data-driven insights, forecasting, and strategic storytelling to optimize business performance and drive commercial growth.
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Job Description

Job Level: Director

Are you looking for an opportunity where you can make the best use of your expertise in business intelligence & insights?

Here's a fantastic job opportunity for you to bring your professional A&I experience and gain a valuable experience in LEGO China!

No relocation assistance is offered for this position  

Play your part in our team succeeding

Analytics & Insights Partnering roles act as strategic advisors, leveraging data-driven insights to inform decisions, optimize performance, and drive commercial growth. They blend business acumen, analytical expertise, and storytelling skills to deliver actionable recommendations that address both short-term goals and long-term strategies.

Core Responsibilities

  • Business Performance Analysis: Conduct deep-dive analysis into business performance metrics, identifying trends, patterns, and outliers to uncover growth opportunities and potential risks.
  • Advanced Analytics & Forecasting: Utilize statistical, mathematical, and predictive modeling techniques to forecast market dynamics, assess economic conditions, and support scenario planning.
  • Data Architecture & Models: Develop data frameworks, visualization dashboards, and analytical models that enable scalable insights and decision-making.
  • Integrated Insights: Combine internal performance metrics with market, competitive, shopper, and macroeconomic data to deliver a holistic view of business health and identify areas for improvement.
  • Strategic Storytelling: Translate complex data insights into clear, compelling narratives that influence stakeholders and drive actionable decisions aligned with business objectives.
  • Collaborative Partnerships: Work cross-functionally with marketing, sales, finance, and operations to align insights with business strategies and ensure data-informed execution.

Do you have what it takes?

  • Bachelor's Degree above, master’s degree is preferred.
  • 8+ Years' validated experience in BI filed.in big MNCs, retail/ consumer goods would be preferred.
  • Analytical Proficiency: Expertise in SQL, Python, and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
  • Data Strategy & Modeling: Strong understanding of data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) and ability to develop statistical models for scenario analysis and performance measurement.
  • Problem-Solving Ability: Aptitude for breaking down complex problems and applying analytical frameworks to generate solutions.
  • Storytelling with Data: Ability to create compelling narratives that align insights with business priorities and influence stakeholders.
  • Commercial Acumen: Deep understanding of business performance drivers, market trends, and consumer behavior to provide insights that impact commercial strategies.
  • Collaboration & Influence: Skilled at partnering with cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders at all levels
  • Oversee the entire analytics function within an organization, ensuring that the team's outputs align with business goals and strategies.
  • Develop the long-term vision for the analytics function and how it should evolve in line with business objectives.
  • Provide executive-level reports and strategic insights to guide the overall direction of the business.
  • Lead and manage a team of analysts and partners across various business units.
  • Collaborate closely with senior leadership, ensuring analytics solutions meet business needs and provide competitive advantage.
  • Manage budgets and resources for the analytics team, ensuring the team is well-equipped to meet organizational goals.
  • Independently handling conflicts in negotiation and manage large projects or processes independently
  • Work independently, recognized subject matter expert, able to lead others, tasks are independently identified and defined
  • Proficient in English and Chinese would be preferred 

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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.

Top Skills

Databricks
Power BI
Python
Snowflake
SQL
Tableau
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The Company
HQ: Billund
19,827 Employees
Year Founded: 1932

What We Do

We are the LEGO Group, the company behind the world’s most loved LEGO® bricks. Our brand name derived from the two Danish words Leg Godt, which mean “Play Well”. We’ve been sparking imaginations and inspiring the builders of tomorrow since 1932. This is our mission and what motivates our colleagues around the world every day. Today, we remain proudly family-owned with headquarters in Billund, Denmark. We have regional hubs in Boston, USA; London, UK; Shanghai, China; and Singapore, as well as 7 manufacturing facilities around the world. These places are home to 28,000+ colleagues in everything from design and engineering to digital technology and marketing. Together we learn, imagine and build – creating play experiences that are sold in over 130 countries worldwide. A purposeful and responsible global brand where creativity helps to inspire builders all around the world. Just imagine being part of that!

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