Senior Corporate Counsel

Job Description

Do You Want To Use Your Legal Knowledge To Help Create Safe, Engaging And Fun Physical And Digital Experiences For The Children Of The World? Come Join Our Legal, Compliance And Risk Management Team (Lcr) Alongside More Than A Hundred Highly Skilled Colleagues In Locations Around The World!

'No relocation assistance is offered for this position.'

Core Responsibilities

• Revise, draft and negotiate all types and levels of contracts.
• Develop guidelines for contract management and ensure compliance with contractual obligations.
• Advise on matters 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 guidelines.
• Offer training and mentorship to internal collaborators on legal compliance and corporate policies.
• May handle large and sophisticated projects or processes independently.
• Lead and coordinate external collaborators at medium to high complexity.
• Work independently, be a recognized subject matter authority, able to mentor others, tasks are independently identified and defined.
• Interact directly with senior management, independently handling conflicts in negotiations.
• Typically, end-of-end perspective including understanding tradeoffs for different scenarios.

Play Your Part In Our Team Succeeding

Are you intrigued by the opportunity to apply your legal knowledge to improve the creation of safe, engaging, and fun activities for children worldwide? In this role, you will help protect the LEGO® brand from potential legal repercussions while offering innovative legal mentorship in the dynamic legal landscape. Join our team of professionals in the Legal, Compliance, and Risk Management team (LCR), comprising more than 100 specialists based in our offices worldwide. Based in Billund, Denmark, you provide legal support to business units in the Product and Marketing Development organization. Here, you stay ahead of relevant legislation in various legal areas such as contracts, intellectual property, and marketing law, primarily regarding consumer-engaging initiatives.

Our goal is to make LEGO products and experiences accessible to a wider range of children worldwide. You will play an important role in protecting the famous LEGO brand against risk of legal harm while also helping to ensure that we develop and remain relevant and “cool” to core LEGO users.

Do You Have What It Takes ?

• MA in law, LLB, Juris Doctorate, MSc in business administration and commercial law or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 7-8 years of (postgraduate) legal experience from an in-house role at a global company or mid-level private practice position.
• Excellent written and verbal communicator with strong legal drafting skills.
• Experience with trademark and copyright licensing, contract law, and intellectual property.
• Ability to work both independently and cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
• Legal curiosity as well as an appetite and ability to learn new skills and acquire new knowledge.
• A positive outlook and a distinct can-do attitude.
• Experience in global or high-value brand organizations.
• Excellent at collaborating with local and global teams.
• Identifying legal risk and making recommendations to the relevant business stakeholders

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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.