Legal Operations Manager

Job Description

Legal Operations Manager

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality legal support in a dynamic international environment?

Join the LEGO Group® and play a key role in safeguarding our brand while supporting legal operations across the APAC and China region.

No relocation assistance is provided for this role.

Play your part in our team succeeding.

As the LEGO Group continues to grow, so does the demand for high-quality legal support. This role sits within the newly established Tax & Legal Operations team as part of our global Business Services Operations (BSO) function.

As a Legal Operations Manager, your primary focus will be to support contract drafting, review, and negotiation across multiple business areas, ensuring efficient and scalable legal service delivery across the region. In addition, you will bring the experience and flexibility to assist with intellectual property matters (including trademarks and copyrights) as required, while contributing to standardisation and operational excellence.

At the LEGO Group, our mission is to inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow. In this role, you will help safeguard our brand while enabling the business through practical, commercially focused legal solutions.

Core Responsibilities

·Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of contracts across China and APAC region, covering areas such as procurement, sales, marketing, and manufacturing.

·Ensure legal accuracy, alignment with corporate policies, and compliance with internal standards and governance frameworks

·Proactively identify and escalate material legal risks where appropriate

·Provide support on intellectual property matters, including trademarks and copyrights, in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders as needed

·Translate complex legal concepts into clear, practical guidance for business stakeholders

·Support the standardisation and continuous improvement of legal processes, including playbooks, templates, and negotiation guidelines

·Contribute to the development and optimisation of legal tech platforms and tools

Do you have what it takes?

·Strong hands-on experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts across multiple legal areas

·Working knowledge of intellectual property matters, including trademarks and copyrights, with the ability to provide practical support as required

·Experience from a similar role within a corporate legal department or law firm

·Collaborative and proactive, with a curious mindset, strong ownership, and a focus on delivering solutions

·Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to deadlines in a fast-paced environment

·Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex legal issues to non-legal stakeholders

·Proficiency with MS Office and comfort working with legal technology platforms

·Interest in developing expertise in legal operations, including process optimisation and legal tech

·Curiosity and openness to leveraging AI and digital tools in legal work

·Understanding of and curiosity around legal tech and AI solutions for contract work

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with contract management tools
• Experience from working in an international environment
• Experience with Vietnamese law
• Fluency in additional languages (Mandarin strongly preferred)

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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.

Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.