Senior Corporate Counsel

1034 LEGO Company Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life & Disability Insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Colleague Discount

Bonus program

Job summary

LEGO Group in London seeks a Senior Manager, Anti-Corruption, Ethics & Compliance to lead the global AB/SC/EC program, blending policy development with practical risk management in commercial contracting. You will provide senior guidance on complex matters, design risk-based trainings, oversee screening frameworks, and contribute to governance, risk assessments, monitoring and reporting across markets.

Hybrid work and collaboration across Legal, Procurement and business partners offer impact on

Qualifications

• Advised on anti-bribery, sanctions and export control matters with complex risk implications.
• Drafted and negotiated contract clauses to reflect anti-bribery, sanctions and export controls.
• Designed and delivered risk-based training and guidance for diverse audiences.
• Implemented or supported sanctions screening and export control frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Provide risk-based guidance on complex anti-bribery, sanctions and export control matters.
• Support governance, controls, monitoring and reporting within AB/SC/EC programs.
• Contribute to risk assessments, controls and issue-management processes.
• Collaborate with Legal, Procurement and business partners across markets.

Skills

Anti-bribery & corruption

Sanctions

Export controls

Contract negotiations

Training delivery

Risk management

Policy design

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Compliance technology

Data analysis (tools)

Job description

About the role

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.

What’s in it for you?

• 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.

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.

Just imagine building your dream career. Then make it real. Join the LEGO® team today. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.