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Sr. Director, Head of Privacy Office

the LEGO Group
Full-time
On-site
Billund, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Director

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.

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Join the LEGO® team today.

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