Legal Counsel, CDO Essential Home

Legal Counsel, CDO Essential Home

Essential Home

With a trusted portfolio of world-class Air Care, Surface, Laundry and Pest Control products, the Essential Home team’s purpose is to Make A House A Home. Fuelling this newly formed business and leadership team is a diverse and inclusive culture for all. Together, we’re shaping a team with a founder mentality: that listens and learns, and that is entrepreneurial, agile, and action oriented. With high-quality brands such as Air Wick, Cillit Bang, Calgon and Mortein, now is an exciting time to join a dynamic company full of purpose, pace and energy, that will create a truly unique learning and career opportunity for all.

Legal

This role is a key part of Essential Home’s Legal Innovation & Sustainability team, providing support to Essential Home CDO organizations and associated global functions, including the R&D and Regulatory teams.

About the role

Elevate your career at Essential Home as a Legal Counsel CDO, where your expertise will not only guide key business strategies but also shape the mentorship of emerging talent within our dynamic legal team. With a platform to showcase your influential communication skills and strategic thinking, you'll be vital in safeguarding our innovative products and technology. You'll stretch your abilities, from providing pivotal advice to driving decisions at the highest level – all while enjoying our vibrant, collaborative culture that fosters your growth.

Your responsibilities

In summary, you'll:

• Collaborate with both legal and non-legal colleagues and stakeholders as a business partner.
• Provide legal advice and support to Reckitt’s Essential Home business regarding global product innovation and marketing activities.
• Support the Global Research and Development teams with commercial contracts necessary for product innovation, including Confidentiality, Supply, and Development agreements.
• Assist with potential contractual disputes, competitor challenges, and litigious matters; coordinate and track such matters across IMEX organizations and share insights.
• Advise the Global Marketing teams on product claims, strategies, and consumer law issues, including sustainability perspectives; ensure a consistent approach and tracking between brands and categories.
• Work closely with in-house patent and trademark specialists.
• Collaborate with legal colleagues globally to ensure a consistent legal approach through training and optimization of legal processes.

The experience we're looking for

• Hold a law degree and a license to practice law in one of Essential Home’s markets (Americas and EUANZ).
• Fluent in English, organized, and comfortable working in an international, multicultural environment.
• Experience in commercial contract negotiation and drafting.
• Knowledge of Marketing and Advertising Law.
• Experience working in an in-country market executional role.
• Experience working with R&D, Quality and Regulatory departments and supporting innovation cycle of a range of consumer product categories.

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.

Additional Information

This role is not category or brand-specific; product and brand support will be assigned as required by the business and the team. This role reports to the Head of Legal CDO & Sustainability, Essential Home. The Legal Counsel may be required to support other activities within the team’s scope, such as activities related to Intellectual Property, Sustainability and others. Essential Home is a lean organization and being open to support on additional topics is needed.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, 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 recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

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.

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