GPA Senior Manager - Value Chain Policy

Job Description

Bring your policy expertise to the table - and help shape play-filled futures.

In this role, you will help define and coordinate advocacy across a range of topics connected to the LEGO Group’s value chain, with a particular focus on trade policy, regulation on consumer electronics, intellectual property rights, ESG-related matters, and forward-looking policy signals. You will work across functions and geographies to help the business understand external policy developments, navigate political complexity and support aligned, impactful advocacy.

Core Responsibilities:

• Leading and coordinating strategic advocacy, planning and execution on Value Chain Policy issues across a broad and evolving agenda

• Acting as GPA’s coordinator for advocacy on LEGO SMART Play, helping to develop and shape GPA engagement in the consumer electronics policy space

• Supporting the business in understanding and navigating trade policy issues, including export controls, sanctions and anti-dumping developments

• Acting as GPA’s point person on ESG-related matters, including reporting tasks, pay transparency, and the like

• Coordinating GPA work on intellectual property rights and leading bi-monthly IPR check-ins; ensuring IP-related issues are reflected in the wider GPA policy agenda and advocacy efforts

• Supporting foresight-related work through dashboards, horizon scans and impact analysis

• Coordinating GPA policy updates and monthly update communications

• Leading the GPA-internal Value Chain Policy Working Group, including shaping its future structure and assessing whether sub-groups, such as on IPR and LEGO SMART Play, should continue or evolve; and ensuring strong bridges to related GPA working groups, including on environmental and digital topics

• Serving as a key point of contact for internal cross-functional partners, including Tax, Product design, Compliance, Legal, Procurement and Supply Chain Operations

This position will be based in Copenhagen, Billund or London and relocation support is not offered for this role.

Play your part in our team succeeding

At GPA, we are Purveyors of magic, calming the seas and shaping play-filled futures. This role plays an important part in that mission by helping ensure that the policy environment supports the LEGO Group’s long-term priorities, responsible business ambitions and continued ability to bring joyful play experiences to children around the world. Within GPA, you will join the Policy & Global Engagement team responsible for ensuring strategic and horizontal alignment with wider group priorities.

Do you have what it takes

• S trong policy expertise , sound judgement and the ability to work confidently across a broad stakeholder landscape

• Proven experience from a leading consultancy, multinational company, think tank or public sector role

• Solid expertise in trade policy and/or the consumer electronics sector

• Experience defining, coordinating or supporting advocacy on complex policy topics

• Fair understanding of intellectual property rights and brand protection priorities

• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to work across functions, seniorities and subject areas

• Ability to lead and motivate peer-based working groups and independently drive progress

• Ability to operate independently, while also building alignment and momentum across functions and working groups.

What would be an advantage

• Familiarity with geopolitical foresight tools, including horizon scanning and financial impact analysis

• Experience working with ESG-related policy or reporting topics

• Experience working with Power BI and AI tools

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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.

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