Legal Operations Consultant

Job Description

Just imagine helping shape a new legal operations team that safeguards the LEGO® brand across the Americas. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Legal Operations Consultant, you’ll join a newly established function within Compliance, Tax and Legal Operations. In this permanent role, you’ll review, draft and negotiate contracts across legal disciplines and jurisdictions, primarily supporting matters in Mexico and the United States.

Required Qualifications

• Earned a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Law, or gained equivalent professional experience.
• Drafted, reviewed and negotiated contracts supporting manufacturing, procurement, sales or marketing activities.
• Prepared contracts in English and Spanish across different legal areas and agreement types.
• Negotiated commercial contracts within a corporate legal department, legal service provider or law firm.

Preferred Qualifications

• Managed concurrent contract reviews and negotiations while meeting agreed deadlines and service levels.
• Used Microsoft Office to prepare, review and manage contractual documentation.
• Improved contract processes through legal technology or artificial intelligence solutions.
• Supported contract matters across Mexico and the United States, including work involving United States contract law.

What you’ll build

• Draft, review and negotiate contracts across the Americas, primarily covering Mexico and the United States.
• Support manufacturing, general procurement, sales and marketing activities with practical legal guidance.
• Help ensure contracts align with internal standards, corporate policies, legal frameworks and governance requirements.
• Explain contractual obligations and legal risks clearly, helping non-legal partners make informed decisions.
• Contribute to playbooks, templates, negotiation guides and improvements to legal technology platforms.
• Identify opportunities for automation, contract analytics and more consistent legal operations processes.

If you’ve worked in a role where you negotiated commercial contracts across different business areas, you’ll feel at home here. What matters most is your ability to combine careful legal drafting with practical advice that colleagues can act on.

Life on the team

You’ll be part of a new team delivering legal and compliance services with an international scope. You’ll bring curiosity, attention to detail and a proactive approach to a varied role. Collaboration matters because you’ll translate complex legal concepts for colleagues with different professional backgrounds.

In this role, you will have an opportunity to develop your contract review and drafting skills alongside a team of highly experienced contract specialists.

What success looks like

You’ll help safeguard the LEGO brand while enabling operational excellence across the Americas. Success means providing accurate, timely contracting support and helping establish consistent ways of working for the new function. You’ll work closely with partners across the Americas region as the team develops its legal operations capabilities.

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 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.

Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs 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: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert.

Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team.

Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here

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, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team.

We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are. Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”
                                                                                                                                             
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.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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Just imagine building your dream career.

Then make it real.

Join the LEGO® team today.