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Brand Protection Paralegal

City:  Kingston upon Hull

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 Legal & Intellectual Property

The Intellectual Property & Brand Protection function plays a critical role in protecting, strengthening and maximising the value of Reckitt's most important business assets—its brands, innovations and intellectual property portfolio. Spanning trade marks, patents and brand protection, the function partners with business, marketing, R&D, innovation and legal teams to develop and execute integrated intellectual property strategies that support growth, accelerate innovation, strengthen competitive advantage and safeguard Reckitt's global portfolio of trusted brands.

As strategic business partners, we combine legal excellence with commercial insight to help unlock value from innovation, manage risk and protect Reckitt's long-term investments in both brands and technology. Through a globally connected team of trade mark, patent and brand protection professionals, we ensure that intellectual property remains a source of sustainable competitive advantage for Reckitt.

About the role

The Paralegal, Anti-Counterfeit & Online Enforcement plays a key role in supporting Reckitt’s global anti-counterfeiting and online brand protection programmes. Reporting to the Senior Paralegal, Anti-Counterfeit & Online Enforcement, the role provides operational, paralegal and enforcement support across investigations, online enforcement activities and brand protection initiatives.

Working closely with anti-counterfeiting professionals, external service providers, online platforms and internal stakeholders, the role helps protect Reckitt’s brands, consumers and commercial interests from counterfeit products and related online brand abuse.

The role coordinates assigned cases and supports evidence gathering, product authenticity reviews, enforcement reporting and programme delivery. Working under the direction of the Senior Paralegal and relevant legal counsel, it combines strong organisational skills, attention to detail and stakeholder engagement to deliver accurate, timely support in a fast-paced international environment.

Your responsibilities

•    Support the delivery of Reckitt’s anti-counterfeiting and online enforcement programmes across global markets, progressing assigned cases and projects under the direction of the Senior Paralegal and relevant legal counsel.
•    Assist with anti-counterfeiting investigations, evidence gathering and enforcement activities relating to suspected counterfeit products and related brand abuse.
•    Support online brand protection activities, including marketplace enforcement, social media monitoring, website investigations and infringement reporting, preparing and submitting takedown requests in accordance with agreed procedures.
•    Prepare, organise and securely maintain evidence and documentation relating to investigations, enforcement actions, online takedowns and customs recordals, including case summaries and draft correspondence for review.
•    Maintain anti-counterfeiting databases, case management systems and online enforcement records, ensuring information is accurate, complete and up to date.
•    Support product authenticity reviews by coordinating assessments with relevant Reckitt teams, maintaining verification records and escalating suspected counterfeit findings to the Senior Paralegal and relevant specialists.
•    Liaise with online platforms, external service providers, investigators, external counsel, customs authorities and law enforcement agencies as required, under the direction of the Senior Paralegal and relevant legal counsel.
•    Monitor and track investigations, enforcement actions, online takedowns and relevant deadlines, producing reports, metrics and updates to support programme governance and performance monitoring.
•    Coordinate document execution, notarisation, legalisation and other formal documentation requirements in support of global enforcement activities.
•    Support the preparation of presentations, training materials and awareness initiatives relating to anti-counterfeiting and online brand protection, sharing practical knowledge with colleagues as required.
•    Build effective working relationships across Legal, Security, Supply Chain, Regulatory Affairs, Quality and Commercial functions to obtain information and progress assigned matters.
•    Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance processes, reporting and ways of working.
•    Provide general paralegal and operational support to the Anti-Counterfeit & Online Enforcement team, escalating complex legal, authenticity or enforcement questions to the Senior Paralegal and relevant specialists.

The experience we're looking for

•    Educated to degree level.
•    Relevant experience in a paralegal, legal operations, intellectual property, brand protection, online enforcement, investigations or related support role. In-house experience or experience within a multinational organisation would be beneficial.
•    Experience supporting enforcement activities, investigations, online brand protection programmes or related operational work. Exposure to online enforcement platforms, customs processes or product authenticity reviews would be advantageous.
•    Understanding of intellectual property rights as they relate to counterfeit products and online infringement, with the ability to apply agreed procedures.
•    Experience maintaining databases, records management systems or case management tools, with the ability to learn relevant anti-counterfeiting and online enforcement platforms.
•    Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
•    Strong attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy and confidentiality when handling case information and evidence.
•    Strong communication, teamwork and stakeholder engagement skills, with a proactive approach and the judgement to seek guidance or escalate issues when required.
•    Confidence using Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and online research tools, with strong keyboard and word-processing skills.
•    The CITMA Paralegal qualification is desirable, but not essential.

The skills for success

Anti-Counterfeiting, Online Enforcement, Brand Protection, Investigations Support, Case Management, Evidence Management, Online Marketplace Enforcement, Product Authenticity Support, Stakeholder Engagement, Reporting & Analytics, Project Coordination, Problem Solving, Organisation, Communication, Accuracy, Confidentiality, Continuous Improvement and Collaboration.

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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