Home to the world’s best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose.
Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

THE EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Experience in-house ideally gained through an in-house role.
• Sound knowledge of contract, advertising and marketing, competition, and consumer protection law.
• Excellent skills in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
• A creative and pragmatic approach and an ability to convey legal principles in a succinct manner.
• A can-do attitude, willing to provide support wherever the business needs it and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment managing competing demands from across the business.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Flexible thinking, energetic, tenacious and results-oriented.
• UK qualified lawyer (3-5 PQE), with excellent all-round legal skills, and fluency in English.
• Appetite for learning and mastering new legal issues quickly and manage a diverse, changing workload.
• A team player, with high integrity, a strong work ethic and a commitment towards creating a collaborative team culture and helping the business to drive its focus on its goals in a compliant, responsible and entrepreneurial way.

THE SKILLS FOR SUCCESS

Integrity, Corporate Governance, Compliance Management, Solutions Focused, Excellent Communication Skills, Risk management, Intellectual property, Patents, Commercial contracts, Marketing, Teamwork, Fact-based Decision Making, Ability to manage and prioritize workload, Continuous Improvement Mindset, Legal Services, Process Optimisation, Qualified Lawyer.

EQUALITY

We recognise that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. That’s why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law

ABOUT THE ROLE

We have an exciting opportunity for a creative, agile and pragmatic 3-5 PQE lawyer to join our UK and Ireland business, as Legal Counsel. Reporting into the Senior Legal Counsel, working collaboratively with the UKI Legal Team and the wider Legal function, the Legal Counsel will be a key team player in implementation of all legal and compliance matters related to the UKI Health & Hygiene commercial operations and supporting the UK factories. They will work proactively and in a hands-on way to develop strong relationships with the commercial, factory and legal teams and will deliver commercially relevant advice in the context of a dynamic, innovative and growing business.
The right candidate will be proactive and self-aware, with the ability to balance technical and legal risk against commercial advantages. You will also be a commercially minded business partner with an awareness of wider business goals, who articulates clearly and pragmatically legal considerations and potential risks to their stakeholders. This position has a direct impact on key business activities, so excellent and robust legal abilities, strategic thinking, commercial awareness, influencing skills and willingness to work collaboratively with colleagues within and outside of Legal are key.