Job Description
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Rare opportunity to join a world-famous brand as Head of Privacy Office! Bring your already strong and proven Data Privacy experience, preferably from commercial consumer focussed industry in play!
The position is located in Billund, Denmark.
Relocation will not be financially supported for this role.
Core Responsibilities
Lead a skilled team of 6 privacy professionals in maintaining the LEGO Group's adherence to the dynamic and evolving privacy statutes across the world
Build, implement, and refine global privacy initiatives, encompassing the establishment of a governance framework
Understand business priorities and how they may be impacted by privacy laws
Keep track of the LEGO Group's compliance status and ensure meticulous and timely reporting to senior executive levels, including the LEGO Group’s Corporate Compliance Board
Maintain independence from daily business advisory. Engage in awareness building and collaboration with legal colleagues.
Manage communication with authorities around privacy compliance and maintain a robust data breach handling process
Join the leadership team of the LEGO Group's worldwide legal, compliance, and risk function
Play your part in our team succeeding
At the LEGO Group, maintaining data privacy is essential to how we establish trust with children, families, and partners globally. The Privacy Office handles a significant responsibility by coordinating the LEGO Group’s comprehensive privacy compliance agenda in tight collaboration with all other legal teams and business areas.
Do you have, what it takes?
We expect you to hold a Legal degree, Masters of Law or similar combined with:
Strong collaborator management and communication skills with the ability to influence and work with executive teams, HR, digital functions, including security and market- & sales organisation
Possessing strong strategic leadership abilities, capable of aligning privacy initiatives with business goals and potential risks
Ability to interpret, implement, and communicate evolving regulatory frameworks to executive audiences
In-depth understanding of international data protection laws, particularly of GDPR
Experience in collaborating with CISOs and digital teams, e.g. on incident response and data breach management
Demonstrated skill in aligning privacy strategy with business goals and corporate risk management
Practical involvement in developing and advancing worldwide privacy initiatives, encompassing policies, governance structures, DPIAs/TIAs, vendor risk oversight, and international data transfer methods (SCCs, BCRs, adequacy)
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.
Just imagine building your dream career.
Then make it real.
Join the LEGO® team today.
Top Skills
What We Do
We are the LEGO Group, the company behind the world’s most loved LEGO® bricks. Our brand name derived from the two Danish words Leg Godt, which mean “Play Well”.
We’ve been sparking imaginations and inspiring the builders of tomorrow since 1932. This is our mission and what motivates our colleagues around the world every day.
Today, we remain proudly family-owned with headquarters in Billund, Denmark. We have regional hubs in Boston, USA; London, UK; Shanghai, China; and Singapore, as well as 7 manufacturing facilities around the world.
These places are home to 28,000+ colleagues in everything from design and engineering to digital technology and marketing. Together we learn, imagine and build – creating play experiences that are sold in over 130 countries worldwide.
A purposeful and responsible global brand where creativity helps to inspire builders all around the world. Just imagine being part of that!
