Senior Innovation Value Analyst (12 month FTC)

Want to help us quantify the value of the LEGO Group’s new play innovations for our audience, business and brand? 

The perfect opportunity to flex your analytical superpowers for good; guide the LEGO Group on how to identify which new play innovations are most likely to excite kids around the world!  

The role of our team is to bridge the value to the consumer and the value of play with the needs of the business and foster a data-led and commercial approach throughout our end-to-end innovation journey. 

• Offer our data and commercial expertise to help de-risk, validate and prioritise our innovations 

• Be a commercial strategy partner - Engage with collaborators proactively to understand the strategy behind the innovation they are proposing and where they see the valuable 

• Translate those product ideas, strategies and campaigns to critical metrics and model inputs 

• Help refine our models and develop our commercial toolkit to estimate the value of products that are different to the current portfolio. Learn to build models and tools from scratch, fit for purpose and for others to use. 

No proven path exists; through astute observation, trial and error, scaling and refreshing foundation tools, as well as building new modules, we build cases that support global rollout of our new products! 

We’re looking to boost our Innovation Modelling capability to build more rigour into how we evaluate all new innovations from seed to scale, as part of our Innovation Modelling and Data Analytics team, within the LEGO Group’s Creative Play Lab.  

• We are looking for someone with work experience in financial modelling, business analytics or marketing sciences/statistics.  

• Experience and track record are more relevant than specific education, but you need to love numbers and spreadsheets. Knowledge of the toy, entertainment, gaming, e-commerce, start up or agency landscape is ideal. 

• A love for diving into data, spreadsheets and formulas; and the ability to communicate and explain those in simple terms 

• A keen interest in building dashboards 

• A passion for collaborating with dedicated individuals to share diverse thought and practices, and develop stronger outcomes; 

• Experience in creating and analysing business models and business drivers 

• Commercial skill; blending art + science, ability to think strategically and creatively 

• Criminology; dissecting + analysing what innovators’ true strategy or purpose of their play innovation is 

• Problem solving; curious puzzle solver, an experimental mentality 

• Analytical - ability to interpret financial data and generate actionable insights 

• Bravery and curiosity; test + learn approach, Work well with ambiguity 

• Self starter; energetic and optimistic soul 

• Playfulness; best friend with your inner child