Senior Corporate Counsel

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior Corporate Counsel to join our LCR team. The Legal, Compliance and Risk Management (LCR) team supports operational legal needs within the CEEMEA region

Bring your legal experience and potential to help craft the future of the LEGO Group!

Core Responsibilities

• Drive and proactively manage all commercial legal issues within designated Area of responsibility – Poland, Ukraine and Baltics (PUB)/ Turkey and Central Asia Markets (TUR/CAT), and Hungary/Greece/Adriatics in close cooperation with CEEMEA General Counsel and respected Business Units Leadership Team
• Providing legal support to all company functions and ensuring they are aligned with the company’s internal policies and rules, LCR and CEEMEA Market Group (MG) priorities, business strategies, and local legal regulations.
• Support Regional Leadership Team based in Prague and within respective Business Units.
• Accountability for providing full legal services to all legal entities within the designated area of responsibility, in particular but not limited to coordination of legal issues and legal matters; preparing, coordinating and reviewing contracts and providing legal input and support to all relevant internal partners (including but not limiting to contract law, corporate law, labor law, legal advice to marketing, e-com and other relevant functions);
• Provide sound and comprehensive legal information and analysis to relevant partners in connection with adopting strategic decisions and assess legal impact of the business decisions.
• Within the risk management process, reviewing the achievement of the priorities with applicable laws governing the business activities.
• Provide regular commercial legal and compliance training and business compliance tools and monitor those on a regular basis.
• Cooperation and close coordination of efforts with Centres of Excellence within LCR, such as data privacy, competition compliance and others in order to ensure high level of quality of legal counselling and compliance benchmark within designated sphere of responsibility.
• Manage internal and/or external relationships to optimize work effectiveness, including building working relationships with external Counsels
• Support the continued development of collaboration, knowledge sharing and process optimization within CEEMEA LCR team and contribute to CEEMEA LCR Team on an ongoing basis
• Document legal processes and work output in legal knowledge management tools.

Play your part in our team succeeding!

CEEMEA (Central Eastern Europe Middle East and Africa) is a regional team located in Billund, Prague, Kladno and Nyiregyhaza consisting of a variety of legal positions, aimed at providing legal commercial counselling, operational factory legal counselling and IP Enforcement Strategies.

Do you have what it takes?

• Significant global experience from inhouse or private practice within Commercial counselling, corporate advisory and marketing and sales counselling legal area
• Knowledge and experience in managing complex legal matters within EU jurisdictions as well beyond the EU jurisdictions and territories via providing sound legal advise to the business stakeholders on the ground
• Proven experience in commercial matters legal management
• Proven track-record in negotiations, contract drafting and advisory, matter management and stakeholder management.
• An appetite and ability to learn new skills as well as the willingness to learn and following through on tasks
• Highly collaborative and curious mentality with a “can do” approach

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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.

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.

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