Director, Social Responsibility EMEA

Are you ready to step-change the LEGO Group’s social impact in EMEA to ultimately impact more children through Learning through Play?

Then bring your social impact expertise to the table and help us drive the LEGO Group's impact for children in our communities in EMEA!

Core Responsibilities

Reporting to the Vice President of Social Responsibility (SR), this role is critical to setting the strategic direction for EMEA. This role will also implement a holistic social impact portfolio in line with our SR aspiration and overarching strategy – to help the LEGO Group become a global force for learning through play!

You will play a key role in guiding and driving the EMEA region to become a socially transformative business, including initiating key partner engagements, and contributing with local insights.

A successful EMEA portfolio will be balanced and consist of global programs, adjusted to fit local contexts, and country-specific partnerships and programs that will create shared value by meeting local needs, using community assets and aligning with business priorities.

Focus areas include:

• Develop and lead the execution of 3+ year roadmap for EMEA, with a particular focus on UK, Czech Republic, Hungary and Germany, to deliver on our aspiration and strategy, to drive alignments across the company, including commonalities with internal brand teams, the LEGO Foundation, LEGO Education, and the full LEGO Ecosystem. The roadmap will also include an internal focus to educate and engage employees into playful action at work, home and within our communities via volunteering
• Lead the EMEA team (10 people), based in Billund in Denmark, London in UK, Munich in Germany, Kladno in Czech Republic and Nyiregyhaza in Hungary to continue to develop and strengthen the team.
• In Denmark, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Germany and the United Kingdom, you will lead the local Social Responsibility team to ensure the national plans are aligned with Social Responsibility aspiration and strategy, local needs assessment and business priorities and implement innovative ways to deliver impactful social programmes with our partners for children, while growing volunteering opportunities to galvanize our passionate workforce in playful action
• In remaining EMEA markets, lead a social responsibility colleague based out of Billund supporting local teams to increase alignment with SR aspiration, strategy and global focus and galvanize employees into playful action at work, home and in the community via volunteering
• Working across the SR team in a matrix-like organisation, increase collaboration and identify scalability across EMEA markets; work with Global Teams to ensure national plans roll-out global programmes adapted to national contexts, drawing on takeaways from other regions with the view of getting to scale faster and; deliver on Social Responsibility Theory of Change and MEL frameworks

Play your part in our team succeeding

You will be part of the SR Leadership Team, where you will work with the rest of the leadership team in driving and leading the transformational journey of SR to increase our impact as an organization, for communities and our business alike.

Because every child has the right to play, the Social Responsibility Team aspires to guide and drive the company's journey to be a socially transformative business, in order to enhance the lives of children in our communities, empowering them to learn and thrive, through play.

From our colleagues to parents and caregivers, educators, and wider communities, we strive to motivate and excite everyone we meet, so that they’re as passionate about the power of learning through play as we are.

Do you have what it takes?

• The ideal candidate holds a degree within social impact work or similar
• Extensive social impact, social responsibility, or corporate responsibility experience in a national or global company, with good understanding of how social sustainability can add business value
• Demonstrated people leadership experience with distance leadership experience preferred
• Passion for communities, children, play, and people
• Proven experience developing impactful social programming and partnerships, preferably within the European context
• Proven experience managing high stakes partnerships and complex internal and external partners
• Proven strategy development experience with strong problem-solving skills
• Proactive and demonstrated ability to use an outside in perspective – designing programs and strategies based on high level objectives
• Proven written and verbal communication skills
• Domestic and international travel up to 25 days/year

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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