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Senior Corporate Counsel

• Location Prague, Czechia

• Job ID 0000015506

• Category Legal, Compliance & Audit

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 – Czech Republic and Slovakia (CZ SK)/ Poland, Ukraine and Baltics (PUB)/ Turkey, Israel, Greece and Central Asia Markets (TIGR CAT), 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.

• Support Business Services Office (shared services hub), based in Prague re commercial related matters.

• 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, labour 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

• In depth knowledge of Czech law is highly preferred

• 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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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. 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 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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