Legal Counsel Denmark

Verisure is seeking a talented and innovative Legal Counsel with a strong commercial mindset, significant knowledge of Danish Consumer and Marketing law and a passion for compliance, to join our growing and successful Danish business.

The role will report to the Danish Managing Director and will work closely with both the country Management team, and across functions (including Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Business Development and Human Resources).
The Legal Counsel will also become part of the growing Verisure Legal team, consisting of lawyers in other markets and the Group Legal team which is based in the head office in Geneva.

This is a key position for Verisure, we are growing fast and we are committed to building a talented and passionate team in Denmark! The successful candidate will be someone who will thrive in an agile, international and entrepreneurial business environment, is able to build close partnerships with business colleagues and who is solution-oriented.

The role is expected to deliver impact quickly and we believe the right individual will have the opportunity to develop as the business grows. It is an exciting opportunity for an experienced legal counsel to deliver value through innovative and leading-edge legal thinking, impactful regulatory advocacy, and leadership in building trust with customers and key stakeholders for sustainable business growth.

The company’s success depends on its people and it invests in them every day. Working with Verisure is being part of an industry leading world-class company that has a strong entrepreneurial spirit.

Strategic context and Value proposition
Over the past years, Verisure has experienced an exceptional and resilient financial performance with a track record of double-digit growth - thanks to continuous drive for Innovation, and our very sophisticated Go To Market and replicable business model for expansion into new countries. Our strong and visionary Management Team is now supporting the business’ next phase of growth with a robust business plan for value creation.

We are proud to protect what matters most in Denmark and bring peace of mind for families and small businesses. We live our values and operating with integrity is core to our success. We are humble, honest and value deep mastery and expertise.

Our successful organization in Denmark has grown to the largest player in our business area in the market. Over the past period, we have more than tripled our customer portfolio, consistently grown revenue and acquired the Falck brand, while building a team of more than 500 talented and capable colleagues. It is an operation primed for continued growth, expecting to double our portfolio in the next 5 years.

This tremendous transition in a global Customer centric company with a strong track record of operational and sales excellence has strengthened the importance of a Legal Counsel with strong business acumen within consumer law and compliance with a solution-oriented and pragmatic mindset used to working with marketing and regulatory aspects.

The DK Legal Counsel will have the opportunity to be a key member of the Danish Management team, an important partner to other functions in the organization in Denmark and member of the larger, closely collaborating Group Legal Team.

Our global combined legal, compliance and regulatory advocacy team consists of over 45 lawyers and other professionals across the organization that come from 16 countries, with a strong gender balance across all levels of the team, including in the group legal management team. We are well-integrated, working closely together across countries as well as the organization to leverage each other’s experience, to develop best practices, and to deliver our colleagues seamless, best-in-class legal partnership. The Legal team also offers the ability to continuously grow, with several examples over the past period of moves within the Function and increases in responsibility.

We are proud to present several recent achievements. These include strongly growing the worldwide team over the past period both in the markets and in our HQ,; plugging into all key business processes to ensure even closer partnering, strengthening further our Privacy and Compliance programs, launching a new regulatory advocacy program, as well as developing and launching a growing set of new policies in partnership with HR; and supporting on key transactions and other business projects for successful execution.

In recognition of these achievements, our team has been recognized as one of the leading in-house legal functions in the Legal 500 GC Powerlist Switzerland 2019. Additionally, our Spanish colleagues won the award of the best Legal In-house Team in 2019 for Iberia in the Services & Consultancy category at the Iberian Lawyer Gold Awards held in Madrid.

Responsibilities will include:

Advising across the full range of legal, regulatory and compliance areas that arise in the business with a particular focus on the following areas:

• Marketing: support the acquisition marketing team by creating innovative solutions and tools to drive the Business to Consumer and the digital customer contracting. Marketing materials review, marketing claims, monitoring, pricing.
• Regulatory and government affairs: support relationship management with relevant regulatory bodies and contribute to future evolution of industry regulation
• Privacy : manage the implementation of the Verisure Group privacy program, enable and monitor compliance with the GDPR and handle, together with key internal stakeholders, data incidents and requests.
• Compliance: Ensuring compliance in all core legal compliance areas. Design and deliver for sustainable growth by ensuring that business initiatives and actions are in full compliance with Danish regulations on consumer law. Design a compliance programme to enhance a first class Sales culture to drive growth with integrity

For each area, the work will be supported by Group Legal team members and other Group resources.

Business and Strategy Adviser

• Be a robust and commercially driven business leader with a legal role and role model for Verisure DNA.
• Provide pragmatic and commercial legal partnership to help shape strategy and business plans
• Monitor key regulatory and legal trends
• Pro-active training to aid efficiency of other business managers
• Integrity leadership: advice on how best to get business done “the right way”

Location
Verisure DK office in Glostrup

Reports and organization structure
Direct reporting line into the Managing Director Denmark
1 legal resource (DPO) with the opportunity to shape an agile team over time.

Candidate profile
Experiences and Qualifications

• University Law degree plus current practicing certificates
• Finished Lawyer degree
• Training at a leading law firm
• Prior relevant experience working in-house will be an asset
• 5-10 years’ experience preferred, with strong knowledge on Consumer law, Compliance and Marketing law.
• Well acquinted with the General Data Protection Regulation

Competencies
• Proven ability to advise on complex legal matters in simple and concise terms
• Highly commercial mindset, a pragmatic and innovative approach to all legal challenges always looking for solutions that will help the business
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Team player – with the ability to influence and work collaboratively across areas of business expertise
• High EQ, high level of judgment and discretion
• Reliable and resourceful
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills

Strong fit with our Company DNA
• Passionate in Everything We Do: Our people have a sense of energy that is unmistakable, one that drives us to delight our customers and focus on creating impact quickly.
• Committed to Making a Difference: When we say we will do something; we deliver with excellence. We are accountable, focused and operate with discipline.
• Always Innovating: We believe that Innovation can be big or small; it’s a continuous state of mind that inspires us to think differently and always make things better. We are risk takers and we learn continuously.
• Winning as a Team: Our people know that by leveraging one another’s strengths, investing in and developing our team’s capability and by collaborating well, we will win.
• With Trust & Responsibility: Operating with integrity is core to our success. We are humble, honest and value deep mastery and expertise. We do the right thing, always.