the LEGO Group
GPA Senior Manager - Value Chain Policy
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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: 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.
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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
- Strong 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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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 (e.g. 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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