Senior Corporate Counsel

Job Description

How would feel about joining our Western Europe Legal team in a role that will focus on Supply Chain and Logistics where Operational experience will help you shape and develop this newly created position?

'Billund based role'

Core Responsibilities

• Leading legal workstreams in operations, mainly within supply chain, logistics and procurement, including cooperating with internal specialists and external counsel.

• Stakeholder management – from executive level down to mid management and specialist.

• Ensuring high compliance level.

• Revise, draft and negotiate all types and levels of contracts.

• Establish best practices for contract management and ensure compliance with contractual obligations.

• Advise on matter with implication beyond the contract in question.

• Make assessments and decisions on relevant scenarios.

• Provide strategic legal counsel to senior management and various departments on corporate governance, compliance, and regulatory matters.

• Collaborate with executives on corporate policies and best practices.

• Provide training and mentorship to internal stakeholders on legal compliance and corporate policies.

• May manage large and complex projects or processes independently.

• Drive and manage external stakeholders at medium to high complexity.

Play your part in our team succeeding

The Western Europe Legal Team is a team with regional (Western Europe markets and IPR enforcement) and global operations (Facilities, Supply Chain/Logistics and Procurement)

responsibility dedicated to providing legal assistance across our areas for key tasks and projects that support the LEGO Group’s strategic priorities and commercial agenda.

Do you have what it takes?

• Significant experience from inhouse or private practice within commercial legal work, preferably within operations (supply chain/logistics and procurement).

• Collaborate mindset.

• Proven track-record in sophisticated negotiations and stakeholder management at highest level.

• Strong commercial understanding across multiple level of value chain.

• Takes initiative, recognizes and acts on legal issues.

• Thrives in a changing environment.

• English to an advanced level.

• Work independently, recognized subject matter expert, able to coach others, tasks are independently identified and defined

• Communicate directly with senior management, independently handling conflicts in negotiation

• Typically, end-to-end perspective including understanding trade-offs for different scenarios

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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.

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