Head of Corporate & Sustainability Communications

Job Description

Just imagine shaping how the LEGO Group is understood in defining moments, while connecting business, purpose and sustainability into one credible story. Then make it real.

About the role

As our Head of Corporate & Sustainability Communications, you'll lead communications that build, protect and strengthen the LEGO Group's corporate reputation globally. You'll bring setting a global communications strategy, corporate storytelling, media relations, issues management, executive communications, sustainability and social impact into one integrated agenda. It's a rare opportunity to guide one of the world’s most reputable brands through complex topics and turn major priorities into relevant, trusted communication.

This role is at Senior Director level and includes people leadership responsibility.

Required Qualifications

· Led senior corporate communications, corporate affairs or reputation teams and work within a complex, high-profile organisation.

· Built and executed global media strategies covering proactive storytelling, reactive handling, messaging and spokesperson preparation.

· Directed high-profile issues and crisis communications amid significant media scrutiny and complex stakeholder expectations.

· Integrated sustainability, ESG or social impact communications into a broader corporate reputation and business agenda.

· Advised C-suite or senior executives on reputation-critical topics and major business priorities.

· Developed and led communications teams through organisational change, with clear priorities and effective ways of working.

Preferred Qualifications

· Applied communications measurement, insight and analytics to assess impact and improve stakeholder engagement.

· Delivered executive communications that helped senior leaders communicate complex business priorities clearly.

What you'll build

· An integrated corporate and sustainability communications strategy.

· Stronger preparation and responses for reputation-critical issues and crises.

· More effective proactive and reactive media engagement.

· A corporate narrative connecting sustainability, social responsibility and business priorities.

· Clear team priorities, stronger capabilities, building talent and practical ways of working.

· Greater use of insight and analytics to improve communications impact.

If you've worked in a role where you anticipated reputation risk, advised senior leaders and connected sustainability with business priorities, you'll feel at home here. Your ability to bring reputation, media and sustainability communications into one coherent approach will be key.

Life on the team

You'll lead the Corporate & Sustainability Communications team, which sits within the broader Corporate Brand Communications organisation. The team builds, protects and strengthens the LEGO Group's reputation globally. You'll work in a collaborative environment that values calm, decisive leadership and clear communication. You'll connect complex priorities into coherent stories, stay close to delivery when needed, and help the team navigate change, scrutiny and ambiguity with care.

What success looks like

Success means anticipating reputation risk, giving trusted and commercially grounded counsel under pressure, and embedding sustainability meaningfully in the corporate story. Over the next 12 to 18 months, you'll strengthen strategy, crisis readiness, media engagement, team capabilities and measurement. You'll work closely with senior executives, communications colleagues, sustainability and social responsibility partners, and teams across the organisation.

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.

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

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.

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About Us

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, and having fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow”.