Senior Corporate Counsel

Lego Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid Working

Job summary

The LEGO Group is seeking a Senior Manager, Anti-Corruption, Ethics & Compliance to lead risk-based guidance on anti-bribery, sanctions and export controls across its global business. The role blends policy development with strategic advisory on complex commercial contracts and negotiations.

You will design and maintain risk assessments, controls and reporting, deliver audience-tailored training, and support contract negotiations to balance legal, compliance and commercial considerations across

Qualifications

• Advised on complex anti-bribery, sanctions and export control matters.
• Reviewed and advised on anti-bribery, sanctions and export control contract clauses in commercial agreements.
• Negotiated anti-bribery, sanctions and export control requirements within commercial contracts and helped shape workable contractual safeguards.
• Designed and delivered audience tailored, risk-based training on anti-bribery, sanctions and export control topics as well as associated communications and guidelines
• Implemented or supported sanctions screening and export control frameworks.
• Contribute to designing and maintaining risk assessments, controls, monitoring and testing, issue management processes and reporting within anti-bribery, sanctions and export control compliance programmes.
• Applied anti-bribery, sanctions and export controls compliance requirements in a business environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior guidance on anti-bribery and export controls across the business.
• Support contract negotiations balancing legal, compliance and commercial needs.
• Develop risk assessments and monitoring processes for ongoing compliance.
• Deliver training and communications across markets to raise awareness and consistency.
• Collaborate with Legal, Procurement and senior leadership across markets.

Skills

Anti-bribery & corruption

Sanctions

Export controls

Contract clauses

Training delivery

Risk assessments

Compliance programs

Tools

Compliance technology

Job description

Job Description

Just imagine helping make anti-corruption, sanctions and export control requirements clear, proportionate and workable across a complex international business. Then make it real.

About the role

The role combines development of anti-corruption, sanctions and export control frameworks and policies with risk-based compliance advisory work and senior-level expertise in complex commercial contracting and negotiations.

As our Senior Manager, Anti-Corruption, Ethics & Compliance, you'll add specialist expertise across anti-bribery and corruption, sanctions and export controls, where compliance strategy, commercial contracts and practical risk management come together. You'll contribute to the priorities and direction of the LEGO® Group's anti-corruption, sanctions and export controls work, providing senior, risk-based guidance on complex matters. This is a permanent role.

Required Experience

• Advised on complex anti-bribery, sanctions and export control matters, including sanctions exposure and escalated business questions.

• Reviewed and advised on anti-bribery, sanctions and export control contract clauses in commercial agreements.

• Negotiated anti-bribery, sanctions and export control requirements within commercial contracts and helped shape workable contractual safeguards.

• Designed and delivered audience tailored, risk-based training on anti-bribery, sanctions and export control topics as well as associated communications and guidelines

• Implemented or supported sanctions screening and export control frameworks.

• Contribute to designing and maintaining risk assessments, controls, monitoring and testing, issue management processes and reporting within anti-bribery, sanctions and export control compliance programmes.

• Applied anti-bribery, sanctions and export controls compliance requirements in a business environment.

Preferred Experience

• Supported monitoring and reporting activities using compliance technology or analytical methods.

• Contributed to compliance risk assessments, controls and issue-management activities through data analysis.

• Worked with third-party risk management processes and ethical supply chain assurance.

What you'll build

• Clear, risk-based guidance on complex anti-bribery, sanctions and export control matters.

• A continual improvement approach to enhancing the anti-bribery, sanctions and export control compliance framework

• Practical support for contract negotiations that balances legal, compliance and commercial considerations.

• Effective contributions to risk assessments, controls, monitoring, issue management and reporting.

• Communications, training and guidance that help colleagues apply requirements confidently in day-to-day decisions.

What matters most is your ability to apply sound judgement, deliver practical advice and build trusted relationships across different markets and cultures.

Life on the team

You'll join the Anti-Corruption, Ethics & Compliance team within Corporate Compliance. The team helps the LEGO Group live its values through ethical, responsible and legally compliant business conduct across global operations. Colleagues combine specialist expertise with clear communication, integrity and practical thinking.

You’ll work independently on complex matters while collaborating closely with colleagues and business partners across the organization.

What success looks like

After your first year, you're a trusted adviser delivering timely, risk-based guidance and helping strengthen contractual safeguards, controls and compliance activities. You'll contribute to the team's priorities around governance, risk assessments, monitoring, reporting and practical business guidance. Along the way, you'll work closely with Anti-Corruption, Ethics & Compliance colleagues, Legal, Procurement, senior leaders and business partners across markets and functions.

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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.

Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here.

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 seeksto 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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.