Governance Manager

Job Description

Join the new Brand Governance team and play a pivotal role in balancing guiding and control. Driving impactful outcomes and contributing to the success of one of the worlds most beloved brands!

This is an exciting opportunity to build our Brand Governance agenda and ultimately influence Executive decision making to ensure we continue to show up authentically as the LEGO Brand in all our products and communications reach more and more children with LEGO play experiences!

Core Responsibilities

As a key player in our Brand Governance team the new Governance Manager will tap into their expertise in Brand Guardrails to assess and run the risk levels of incoming requests. Coordinate the pipeline management of complex brand inquiries. Preparing risk assessments and discussion materials for senior leadership decisions. This role includes tracking all brand requests and analyzing decision trends to refine our guidelines. Additionally youll maintain our Frontify site ensuring easy access to policies and submission tools for brand requests.

Deep subject matter expertise on Brand Guardrails: Learn all Brand Guidelines and study previous precedents to enable assessment of relative risk levels of incoming requests. Ability to prioritize to the accurate subject matter authorities and to raise high risk requests to the Head of Brand Governance.

Pipeline Management: Case management of a small number of complex brand requests requiring critical issues to senior leaders (PMD LT VP). Including preparing risk assessments and discussion materials to enable those senior leaders to make decisions on complex requests at Brand Governance decision making forums.

Own tracking of all brand requests and outcomes and carrying out ongoing analysis on decision trends that indicate where new brand guidelines are required or where existing brand guidelines should be updated.

Solution Development & Management: Maintain an internal SharePoint and external Frontify site. Containing all Brand Governance policies that internal and external partners can access including Webforms and SLA estimates for users to submit brand requests.

Play your part in our team succeeding!

The Brand Governance team is responsible for guiding business owners on which brand policies are relevant to their content until understanding is embedded. We also support business owners on whether to pursue brand approvals as one-off exceptions or potential new precedents. We ensure all guidelines are up to date actionable applicable and reflect todays culture. We arent here to police creativity were here to help invent creative and humorous solutions to ensure content aligns with our guidelines and bring compelling cases to PMD LT or relevant partners for exceptions and precedents.

The team is based in the LEGO London Hub LEGO Billund or in LEGO Copenhagen Hub (this position is in DK) offering an exciting inspiring and flexible work environment and a little fun play as well!

Do you have what it takes

The preferred candidate has extensive prior experience of synthesizing large amounts of policy information and applying to business use cases. A deep understanding of inclusion diversity sustainability and cultural appropriation with the ability to apply this understanding to how products and content may be perceived or interpreted by consumers. Preferably they have strong communication skills and experience of website build. User experience optimization and delivering organizational change within complex matrix organizations to drive adoption of new governance processes.

To succeed in this role you will possess the following:

• Be a creative problem solver with passion for paying close attention to detail
• Have previous experience crafting websites with Frontify or similar tools.
• Have either existing knowledge of LEGO Brand Guidelines or a passion to learn more about them.
• Be a great teammate who is happy to share responsibilities and tasks across the team.

Please Note: This position is in Manager Specialist Skyline. Relocation support is not offered.

If you require any reasonable accommodation or adjustments throughout the application process please let us know. We will work with you to meet your needs.

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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 youre interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Whats 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 youll 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 youll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Workplace - When you join the team youll 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 seeksto 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 Childrens 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 Childrens Rights.

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