WHY SUPERDRUG?

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.
Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

ABOUT US:

AS Watson is the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer operating over 16,500 stores under 12 retail brands in 29 markets (2023 revenue > £17 billion). We are part of CK Hutchison Holdings, which is among the largest companies listed on the main board of The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (2023 revenue > £45 billion). In the UK, we operate three beloved retail brands: Superdrug; Savers; and The Perfume Shop, focussed on delighting customers both online + offline (O+O) through our c.1500 physical stores (2023 revenue > £2.5 billion).

ROLE PURPOSE:

We have an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated, experienced, and talented commercial lawyer to join AS Watson UK’s legal team (“Team Legal”), supporting our three beloved retail business units (Superdrug, Savers and The Perfume Shop).

A TYPICAL DAY IN THIS ROLE INCLUDES:

• Building relationships and interacting with a variety of stakeholders in the business units and legal.
• Being the principal specialist legal advisor on Marketing & IP matters.
• Creating an agile strategy designed to support an effective and efficient compliance approach to Marketing & IP, ensuring the business units can evolve in the fast-paced environment in which we operate.
• Developing a robust and engaging training programme to ensure the business units are educated to deliver legally sound initiatives promoting a culture of good conduct and legal risk mitigation.
• Working collaboratively in cross-functional teams to support the delivery of new business initiatives (including for our IT and Online teams).
• Building a strong network of relationships with peers to benchmark legal approach, share best practice and promote the interests of the UK business units.
• Developing your relationship with relevant regulatory bodies (e.g. ASA) to keep abreast of a changing regulatory landscape and support the business unit operations.
• Supporting strategic commercial contracts, for example with marketing agencies.
• Building proactive plans to manage potential risk from changes to legislation.
• Keeping technically up to date, especially in the fast-moving areas of Marketing and IP.