Senior Corporate Counsel

Job Description

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In this role you will provide legal sparring/advice and coordinate legal work in relation to our exciting global direct-to-consumer retail ecommerce area!

Core Responsibilities

• Providing legal advice/counsel globally to the business owners and stakeholders in the direct-to-consumer retail ecommerce business area in matters related to consumer protection, marketing, loyalty programs, privacy, digital and related legal areas.

• Supporting colleagues and business stakeholders in a wide variety of different business and regulatory cases and issues of medium to high complexity as well as occasionally training colleagues and stakeholders in own legal expertise areas.

• Assessing and managing legal risks in relevant cases and projects independently with a view to consumer protection, intellectual property rights and their regulatory environment. Continuously improving legal processes and standard form agreements in the relevant responsibility area.

• When relevant, structuring, drafting, negotiating and/or approving commercial contracts and procurement contracts, letters of agreement, policies and other documents within digital and general commercial legal areas

• Working independently, as a recognised subject matter expert and being able to coach others, for tasks that are independently identified and defined.

• Experience and interest in digital technology, ICT procurement and other areas covered by our team, such as online brand protection is considered an advantage.

Play your part in our team succeeding

This Senior Corporate Counsel role sits within the Legal, Compliance and Risk Management department and its Digital, eCommerce and Marketplaces (DEM) legal team supporting our global direct-to-consumer online retail business, our digital organisation and conducting our IP enforcement online. This role is specifically focused on legal issues relating to direct-to-consumer business. The role will work very closely with other colleagues in the team but will also have interactions and opportunities to work together with the broader LCR team as well as various business colleagues. The role holder will be expected to be a great teammate and to add the best value in legal support to our relevant business collaborators.

The role will require a high level of interest and curiosity of working in privacy, marketing, and consumer law matters, digital space, evolving technology and business needs, IT procurement with a global perspective. The ability to make quick decisions and quick assessments will be key. This also means that it is vital to have strong partnering skills as the role will be interacting with the business teams directly in the LEGO Group.

Do you have, what it takes?

• Law school/university degree in law (LL.M or a corresponding degree)

• Qualification as an Attorney-At-Law (bar exam) (if applicable/required in your location)

• 5-8 years of post-graduate international legal experience from inhouse or private practice within relevant legal fields

• Significant experience and preferably specialisation within, and proven experience working with legal issues in consumer protection, privacy, e-privacy and the ecommerce business.

• Experience within the ICT space, emerging technologies and digitalisation would be considered an advantage.

• Ability and interest in being able to give relevant and timely advice within a fast-moving business environment.

• Proven track record on strong business partnering and collaborator management skills, pro-activeness, ability to effectively spot issues on a wide range of topics and build results/impact to the business as well as a curiosity about understanding the overall LEGO Group business.

• Good general understanding of commercial laws, intellectual property laws, competition law and commercial contracts.

• Legal curiosity as well as appetite and ability to learn new skills quickly as well as the willingness to follow through on tasks to completion.

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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