Employee Relations Manager

Job Description

Do you dream of safeguarding our LEGO® values through your solid experience and knowledge within employment law?

Working in Employee Relations within the LEGO Group, you become a key player in keeping our People Promise – relating to issues such as employee motivation and satisfaction, work conditions, employment rights and employee health and safety. You will gain a deep understanding of our global business and make an impact for LEGO Employees, reaching across cultures and borders!
 

Core responsibilities

• From our Headquarters in Billund, you will be part of a highly professional and passionate team who collaborate closely with partners across the LEGO Group. You will primarily cover Denmark and the Nordic countries with supporting people leaders and People Partners in all matters related to employment law, collective agreements, and internal HR policies. More specifically, you will:

• Provide guidance and support across business units in terms of individual as well as collective employment law and legislation (including collective agreements like “Industriens Overenskomst (IO)” and “Industriens Funktionæroverenskomst (IFO)” in Denmark).

• Support and guide people partners, people leaders and union representatives when adjusting and implementing new policies and when individual cases needs to be investigated, evaluated, prepared, and solved

• Handle cases that comes in through our Compliance Line

• Support our Diversity and Inclusion Journey by giving input to various projects, and help secure that tasks such as cases, reorganizations and projects are being handled with a D&I lense

• Maintain and update standard contracts and prepare and maintain internal policies – e.g., make sure the HR policies in Denmark and the Nordic countries are in accordance with new legislation

• Prepare and update our Business Service Operations (BSO) with the newest HR policies, legislation and collective agreements, and occasionally support them with your knowledge and insights in terms of employment law and individual employee related questions

• Be the one-point-of-contact for creating and maintaining different collaboration agreements with universities, - both in regard to interns, student workers, project writers and PhD-students
   

Play your part in our team succeeding

The main and overall purpose for our team is to ensure the good relation between the company and the employees by striking the right balance. We play a key part in safeguarding our LEGO® values. The LEGO Brand Framework is our blueprint for everything we do and say, and at the core of our brand are our four promises related to play, partner, planet, and people.
 

Do you have what it takes?

The successful candidate comes with a background in law or similar and several years of experience working with Danish Employment law and collective agreements in a global context. In addition, you are a solid communicator, with the ability to transition complex questions and matters to simple solutions.

As a person, you are curious, proactive and like to learn and develop combined with bringing solid negotiation and “building bridges” skills. You thrive in a fast paced environment and have the ability to push-back and stand strong on your legal arguments. Finally, you are a teammate who is willing to lean in and contribute to the success of the team, where high professionalism and strong deliverables are combined with an open-minded, friendly, and fun way of working.

What’s in it for you?

Here are some of what to 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.

• Wellness – We want you to be your best self, so you'll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes run by local teams where you are based.

• 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.

• Your 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 proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay regardless of e.g. race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability or gender identity.

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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