Employee Relations Manager, 15 months temporary role

Job Description

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Do you want to help safeguard our LEGO® values through your experience and knowledge within employment law?

In this role you will be a key player in keeping our People Promise by securing alignment with legislation, policies and guidelines as well as the LEGO Brand Framework. You will gain a deep understanding of our global business and make an impact for LEGO Employees, reaching across cultures and borders!

No relocation assistance is offered for this position.

Core Responsibilities

From our Headquarters in Billund, you will be part of a highly professional and passionate team who collaborate closely with partners across the LEGO Group. You will primarily cover Denmark with supporting people leaders and People Partners in all matters related to employment law, collective agreements, and internal HR policies. The primary focus will be on the hourly paid employees population. More specifically, you will:

• Provide guidance and support across business units in terms of individual as well as collective employment law and legislation (including collective agreements like “Industriens Overenskomst (IO)” and “Industriens Funktionæroverenskomst (IFO)” in Denmark).

• Consult people partners, people leaders and union representatives when adjusting and implementing new policies and when individual cases need to be investigated, evaluated, prepared, and solved

• Be on top of upcoming new legislation and drive the implementation hereof

• Support global leaders with a big variety of ER challenges, and provide day-to-day sparring

• Handle cases that comes in through our Compliance Line

• Support our Diversity and Inclusion Journey by giving input to various projects, and help secure that tasks such as cases, reorganizations and projects are being handled with a D&I lense

• Maintain and update standard contracts and prepare and maintain internal policies – e.g., make sure the HR policies in Denmark are in accordance with new legislation

• Prepare and update our Business Service Operations (BSO) with the newest HR policies, legislation and collective agreements, and occasionally support them with your knowledge and insights in terms of employment law and individual employee related questions

Play your part in our team succeeding

The main and overall purpose for our team is to ensure the good relation between the company and the employees by striking the right balance. We play a key part in safeguarding our LEGO® values. The LEGO® Brand Framework is our blueprint for everything we do and say, and at the core of our brand are our four promises related to play, partner, planet, and people.

Do you have what it takes?

The successful candidate comes with a background in law or similar and several years of experience working with Danish Employment law and collective agreements in a Danish context.

• A solid communicator working flawlessly in English

• Ability to transition complex questions and matters to simple solutions where the people leaders and People Partners are understanding and committing to your solutions

• Curious, like to learn and develop and do so on own initiative

• Solid negotiation skills and at the same time strong at “building bridges”

• Ability to push-back and stand strong on your legal arguments

• Thrive in a fast pace work environment

You find yourself a great teammate who is willing to lean in and contribute to the success of the team, where high professionalism and strong deliverables are combined with an open-minded, friendly, and fun way of working.

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.

Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. If you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.

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.