Chief of Staff to Verisure Group Chief Legal Officer

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Verisure is seeking a talented, innovative, passionate Chief of Staff to report into the Group Chief Legal Officer (CLO). The Chief of Staff will provide day-to-day support to the CLO by giving her additional leverage and amplifying her impact. This role provides an outstanding platform for a highly talented individual to work under the immediate supervision of the CLO and generally help to implement her visions. The role is ideally based in Geneva, which is the Group HQ, but could be based also in another well-connected Verisure location.

The role will be varied and is positioned to interact closely and with autonomy with the CLO, the Group Legal team (at HQ and in the markets) and other leaders across the Group. Critical and strategic, the role will be expected to impact quickly and develop as the business grows. We are looking for someone who can make a tangible positive impact to transform and add value. Opportunities for development for the successful candidate are substantial and there is a large potential to take other roles in the company (different areas, functions, countries, etc).

This is a great opportunity for a top performer / high potential candidate from a top tier strategy consulting firm to transition into the corporate world, have an impact on both strategic and operational projects, and being fast tracked into a leadership position. The role will provide visibility on various critical strategic and operational initiatives. This is an opportunity to visibly impact on our business and rapidly create a track record of success in a fast-growing company.

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 very long track record of double-digit growth - thanks to continuous drive for Innovation, 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.

Amongst other recent milestones, we received the backing of top tier private equity firms such as Hellman & Friedman, GIC (Government of Singapore Investment Corporation) and Alba Capital. In December 2019, we’ve formed a strategic partnership with Arlo Technologies, a world leader in connected cameras and acquired all rights to Arlo’s European business. This allows us to offer connected camera services in Europe as a complement to our professionally monitored security service. It also allows us to access new go-to-market opportunities in retail and e-commerce.

Verisure Legal – strong, impactful and business-focused

Our combined Legal, Compliance, Privacy and Regulatory Advocacy / PR team consists of over 55 lawyers and other professionals across the organization. It is a highly diverse team representing 15 nationalities, from three continents, and with a strong gender balance across all levels of the team, including in the Group Legal management team. We are a very well-integrated team, working closely together between Group and the countries, as well as across countries to leverage each other’s experience, to develop best practice tools and templates, and to deliver best-in-class legal partnering to our business colleagues.

Our vision is to be business enablers, our mission is to deliver value through innovative and leading-edge legal thinking, impactful regulatory advocacy, and leadership in protecting our reputation and building trust with customers and key stakeholders for sustainable business growth.

We are proud of several recent achievements. These include continuously and successfully growing the worldwide team, with 10 new lawyers, one public affairs professional and three data privacy professionals recruited over the past year, evolving the Group Legal team to even better meet business needs, plugging into key business processes to ensure closer partnering and launching a new regulatory advocacy program.

Our team has also beenrecognized as one of the leading in-house legal functions in the GC Powerlist Switzerland 2019. For over 30 years, The Legal 500 has been analyzing the capabilities of law firms across the world. For its 2019 Powerlist, it turned its attention to in-house legal functions which are driving the legal business forward. And the Verisure team now takes its place on the 2019 Powerlist alongside legal teams from companies like eBay, P&G, Ralph Lauren and the Swatch Group. This is just a beginning.

Join us to become one of us – business enablers and essential contributors to sustainable business growth.

Responsibilities

The Chief-of-Staff will be a strategic partner and advisor to the CLO, the entire Legal team and other leaders in the Group. This role provides an outstanding platform for a highly talented individual to work under the immediate supervision of the CLO. The role will be transversal and have exposure to all Legal initiatives, while also have the end-to-end ownership of a number of critical and transformational projects.

Priorities will include:

• Amplify impact and reach of the CLO and the Legal function, supporting her and the team on the definition and implementation of key strategic priorities across the Group

• Work closely with the Legal team and other leaders on strategic projects impacting the entire Group

• Closely work with CLO on ad hoc projects and assignments that require high attention, deep dive analysis and impactful presentation

• Define and track the Group-wide Legal dashboard and main KPIs, such as performance under Compliance and Privacy programs, external stakeholder engagement, Legal team size / total organization size ratios, etc.

• Plan and coordinate and follow- up meetings, external contacts, ideas for new projects and improvements, etc.

Location

Geneva, which is the Group HQ, but could be based also in another well-connected Verisure location

Reports and organization structure

Direct reporting line into the Group Chief Legal Officer

Candidate profile

Experiences and Qualifications

We are looking for a high potential / top performer to be a key player in helping achieve positive impact across the organization In Legal, Compliance, Privacy and Regulatory Advocacy / PR related areas.

• Circa 3 - 5 years cumulative post-university experience (MBA, Legal Master’s or other Master’s degree)

• High Potential / Top Performer from a top tier strategy consulting firm

• Strong track record on project management and presentation (written and oral) skills

• Very strong people and process skills

• Detail oriented and precise communicator

• Reliable and transparent

• Significant experience in multi-cultural environments

• Fluency in English – any other European language would be an asset.

Competencies

• Very high EQ

• Enthusiastic and high energy, with a strong drive to create a positive work environment

• Strong analytical thinker

• Independent problem solver that can set priorities, make high quality judgements, lead project teams to progress against action plans and enable efficient decision making

• Excellent written and oral presentation and communication skills

• Ability and willingness to take a "hands on" approach, while maintaining the high level, strategic compass

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.