Associate Legal Counsel, Intimate Wellness - Slough, Berkshire
We are Reckitt, 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.
About the role
This role is an integral part of the CGO Legal Health & Hygiene team, providing balanced, commercial legal advice and support to the Intimate Wellness and Veet brand teams as well as associated global functions, including the R&D, Medical and Regulatory teams.
You will be a partner to the business working collaboratively with both legal and non-legal colleagues and stakeholders to bring innovative and competitive products to market while ensuring their compliance with marketing and consumer laws. This role will suit you if you enjoy working closely with creatives and innovators, are willing to join in and ideate, love a challenge and seek out practical solutions, and are not afraid of getting into technical details of a project.
Your responsibilities
1. Deliver operational legal support to aspects of global product development, marketing, advertising and commercialization, including:
1. Advising on global advertising and marketing claims and claims substantiation, as well as approving on-pack copy and other globally developed consumer and trade marketing materials, including point of sale and social media posts;
2. Providing input to project documentation including stage gate documents, and to risk assessments;
3. Advising on concepts and attending workshops for new and/or existing products, identifying key risks and route to market issues;
4. Attending, and preparing notes of meetings of, Intimate Wellness and/or Veet leadership team meetings;
5. Liaising with Reckitt lawyers worldwide and other legal functions such as Global Brand Protection, Patents and Procurement.
2. Drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, including non-disclosure agreements, services agreements and statements of work, joint development agreements, clinical and other research agreements, and other similar innovation or brand partnership contracts;
3. Support the business in managing the implications of changes to relevant laws, particularly in relation to products on the market;
4. Deliver training to relevant business units on frequently encountered legal issues;
5. Provide legal assistance as needed by Head of Legal, Intimate Wellness on ad hoc matters including competitor challenges, supply chain matters, product related litigation, M&A and product recalls.
The experience we’re looking for
1. Legal experience preferably in a commercial legal department in-house.
2. Ideally, 2 years PQE, although those with lower PQE or that are yet to obtain formal legal qualification will be considered based on experience.
3. Ability to draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts governed by English law.
4. A high willingness to learn and high learning agility.
5. Knowledge of advertising and marketing law, and/or intellectual property law in UK, EU, China or India desirable.
6. High level of attention to detail and good ability to spot issues.
7. Practical and commercial approach to problem solving.
8. A positive attitude and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic and entrepreneurial environment.
What we offer
With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally.
We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans, we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognize, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results.
Equality
We recognize 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.
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