Home Care Senior Legal Counsel

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Kingston upon Thames
GBP 60,000 - 80,000
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Employer: Unilever
Location: Kingston Upon Thames, England, United Kingdom
Salary: Competitive
Closing date: 16 Dec 2024

Sector: Legal
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Please Note: The deadline for applying is 23.59 the day before the job posting end date.

Job Title: Home Care Senior Legal Counsel
Location: Kingston

JOB PURPOSE
The Unilever Home Care Legal Team is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to support our Home Care Business Unit in UK and Ireland. The role would involve giving advice to the business on a broad range of legal matters relating to the development, marketing and sale of Unilever Home Care products and brands, identifying the legal risks and helping our business to navigate those risks. The role reports into the HC General Counsel Europe and has shared access to junior level support.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Advising the Home Care UK and Ireland business teams on all aspects of product innovation development, marketing and sales, including on-pack and advertising claims;
  • Representing the legal function by being an active member of the UKI Home Care leadership team, providing legal guidance and opinions to aid the business to deliver its targets while mitigating risks;
  • Being a member of the Home Care Europe Legal Team which regularly discusses Pan-European topics, horizon-scans new legal developments and shares relevant learnings across the UK and Europe;
  • Being an active member of the cross-functional 'golden triangle' which is made up of legal, regulatory affairs and local deployment colleagues. This team reviews Home Care products, packaging and claims to ensure they are compliant with laws and regulations whilst maximizing the impact of product claims;
  • Evaluating legal options and risks, developing appropriate strategies and advising business partners accordingly;
  • Managing product claim litigation with the assistance of external counsel (if necessary) to ensure a cost-effective solution;
  • Defending and enforcing Unilever product claims against third parties;
  • Supporting business partners in management of external relationships (authorities, trade associations, lobbying activities etc.);
  • Assisting consumer care line with responses to consumer complaints as necessary, including liaising with the Comms team;
  • Collaborating with other Unilever in-house lawyers, both in Europe and globally, including contributing to cross-country projects from time to time;
  • Drafting and negotiating miscellaneous commercial agreements;
  • In close collaboration with other expert lawyers within Unilever, advising on matters concerning intellectual property (including brand protection and licensing);
  • Providing training to the business in relation to any of the above matters, including as part of Unilever's overall compliance framework.

ALL ABOUT YOU
COMPETENCIES:
The ideal candidate would have experience in the following areas:

  • Marketing law, including product claims support within the regulatory environment;
  • Contracts, for example, service agreements, consultancy agreements, confidentiality agreements, sponsorship agreements, talent agreements, brand building agency agreements, and joint business plan agreements with customers;
  • Competition law (in particular its application to agreements between Unilever and its customers).

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
As a guide, relevant years' experience working as a Solicitor (qualified in the UK, Ireland or other common-law based jurisdictions) and advising in relation to marketing and commercial legal issues would be appropriate but we are willing to consider any relevant experience. Experience working in FMCG industry, retail or trade is ideal but not a necessity. Key skills include:

  • Marketing law;
  • Contract law;
  • Competition law;
  • Ability to analyse problems and propose commercial solutions;
  • Excellent communication, drafting and organization skills;
  • Team player;
  • Ability to work under time pressures to meet short deadlines;
  • Proactivity, flexibility and adaptability;
  • Ability to identify and communicate legal risks to the business, and to assist the business to manage such risks efficiently;
  • Ability to provide creative solutions to legal issues which deliver competitive advantage to the business, taking into account cost, risk and other consequences.

What we offer
Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to present your best self.

Company

Be part of the most successful purpose-led business in the world. Have the opportunity to see the true impact that you’re having in the work you do - every small thing counts. The personal contribution you make means you feel good about what you do and proud that you have a career with a higher purpose. Be empowered to make a positive impact, by bringing your purpose into action.

Be a force for good. Unleash your curiosity and pioneering spirit to make our business win and grow. Use your confidence to challenge the status quo for the better, while you learn, grow and make a positive impact.

Diversity & Inclusion is one of the things that we want Unilever to be famous for.

This means making sure our business is fair, attracting and retaining the very best talent and helping them unlock their full potential.

Dove, Lipton, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Lynx, Knorr, Surf. Our world-famous brands are totally different – and as people, so are we. Be surrounded by individually different but like-minded people who share your values, commitment and desire to start or pursue a career across different cultures and levels of seniority where you do good things every day. Bring your real self to work, here we combine our differences to achieve greater things.

Develop into your best self. Get inspired by leaders and peers and create life-shaping experiences for yourself. Unilever offers an inspirational working environment where you will be mentored and nurtured by bright minds and purpose-led leaders. Use your skills and knowledge, and the tools we provide you to experience all that Unilever can offer across brands and around the world. You have the ability to craft a flexible – and global – career.

Our policies & flexible working

At Unilever, we have a range of market-leading, family-friendly and flexible working policies, which enable our employees to balance their day-to-day responsibilities.

These policies and practices include:

  • Agile working, which gives employees the possibility to work remotely and flex their own hours, whilst ensuring business needs are met.
  • Flexible working arrangements including, but not limited to, part-time and job share opportunities.
  • Enhanced leave policies - all employees taking maternity or shared parental leave have up to 16 weeks’ paid leave and some eligible employees can have up to 39 weeks’ paid leave.
  • Practical support including, nursery benefits and back-up care for parents and carers.
  • A constant focus on wellbeing for employees, including regular health checks, mental health support and our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a strong culture of mentoring, training and learning across the organisation, with a range of resources and initiatives available:

  • Mentoring and coaching
  • Leadership and general business skills training, including unconscious bias
  • Learning for all, via access to internal and external resources
  • Workshops which support personal and team development.

Our ambition: unlocking talent through disability inclusion

The World Health Organization estimates that there are one billion people in the world currently living with a disability. That’s about 15% of the global population, or 1 in 7 of us. And the statistics suggest that people living with disabilities are among the most marginalised populations in the world in terms of employment and educational opportunity.

Removing the barriers facing people living with disability is a priority for our business. It isn’t just the right thing to do – we believe that creating equality of opportunity will unlock a huge pool of talent. It also gets to the heart of the ambition to ‘leave no one behind’ – and could contribute to the five Sustainable Development Goals which explicitly reference disability and to the wider sustainable development agenda.

In 2018, we set ourselves global commitments to achieve by 2025:

  • to be the number one employer of choice for people with disabilities, and
  • to increase the number of employees with disabilities to 5% of our total workforce.

These are ambitious targets. They involve transforming the way we recruit and train our people. And they mean adapting both the way we work and our workplaces, so that we can support people with disabilities to reach their full potential.

"We cannot be an inclusive organisation unless we ensure that we have created the conditions and the culture for people with a disability to thrive."

We are keen to find out about your talent, and offer the support you need.

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