Heidi Winkler

Director, Assistant General Counsel at Bang & Olufsen

Heidi Winkler is the current Director and Assistant General Counsel at Bang & Olufsen. Heidi has been with the company since January 2017 and in their current role for over 4 years. In this role, they are responsible for legal business partnering which combines solid legal foundation and business acumen to act as trusted advisors engaging with management and stakeholders to achieve shared commercial and strategic goals. Her aim is to constantly improve and optimize the way their team works, which has led to increased NPS scores of the legal team over the years, "Virksomhedjuristsprisen 2018" (Danish award for best in-house legal team) and the legal team's participance in relevant management teams. Heidi also supports both strategic initiatives and day-to-day tasks within sales and distribution (selective distribution set-up), marketing campaigns, eCom, procurement and everything in between. Furthermore, they lead the Enterprise Risk Management and Insurance function as well as the Brand Protection function striving at optimising the value and business relevance of these functions. Previously a member of B&O PLAY Management Team and Product Creation & Fulfilment Management Team, they are now a member of the Marketing, Digital and CX Management Team and Chairman of the Work Council (Samarbejdsudvalget).

Heidi Winkler received their MBA from HKUST Business School, their LLM in International Comparative Law from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and their Cand.Jur. from Aarhus University. Heidi also studied Modern Languages at Lemvig Gymnasium.

They are on a team with Jonas Glyager Jensen - Legal Business Partner, Claus Nicolai Ellehuus - Compliance Officer. Their manager is Line Køhler Ljungdahl, VP Global General Counsel.

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