Job Description
Do you want to play a substantial role in helping to protect the famous LEGO brand against risks of legal harm? Bring your legal experience and potential to help craft the future of the LEGO Group.
The work is fast paced, diverse and never boring. The work available includes strategic and global projects. This role is a great opportunity for someone wanting to take their career and development to the next level in a fun and caring company.
Core Responsibilities
Advising on competition law and anti-bribery and corruption law issues in a manner so as to deliver high impact to the organisation.
Advising on and helping shape projects of all sizes from a competition law perspective.
Assisting in resolving any compliance failures, delivering the best result for the organisation.
Instructing, collaborating closely with and managing external counsel, where relevant.
Delivering training to the business globally on competition and anti-bribery – ensuring relevance and high levels of engagement.
Working and enhancing our compliance programmes.
Collaborating and working with other members of the Corporate Compliance team and the wider Legal, Compliance and Risk Management team to ensure the maximum impact for the agenda.
Play your part in our team succeeding
The Corporate Compliance team is within the Legal, Compliance and Risk Management team (ultimately reporting to the Global General Counsel).
The Corporate Compliance team consists of four functions. Partner Integrity, Business Conduct & Ethics, Investigations and Legal Compliance. The team is a global team where individuals have primary areas of focus but are expected to get involved in global projects and tasks. The Corporate Compliance team is a well-functioning one-stop shop for all areas of corporate compliance and there is a high degree of collaboration and support amongst the team to ultimately support the agenda of enhancing compliance within the company as a whole.
The specific role is within the Legal Compliance function and is based in London (UK). It is a global role but will have a primary focus over certain business areas/markets. The role will be for a competition law expert who will also get involved in advising on anti-bribery and corruption related issues.
Do you have what it takes?
Experience of EU and/or UK Competition Law (essential) - ideally having spent all or most of this time on competition law.
Experience of US anti-trust law (nice to have).
Experience in in-house legal team (strongly desired) and/or private practice advising on competition law.
Able to travel including global travel.
Must have delivered training presentations in the past.
Experience of working with senior partners.
Experience of advising on anti-bribery and corruption related issues.
Experience of managing and recommending enhancements to compliance programs.
Experience advising retailers/manufacturers.
Experience with working with global teams.
Ability to be flexible in working style and respond to different working styles.
Competent in office IT and IT collaboration tools
What’s in it for you?
Here are some of what to 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.
Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.
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.
Your workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. The hiring team will discuss the principles of our hybrid work model 'Best of Both', role eligibility and frequency 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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.
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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