Head of Legal, Compliance Effectiveness (Essential Home)

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.

​Legal​

Step into the world of our Legal and Compliance Function and prepare to be challenged and stretched with a combination of impact, innovation, and excellence. Our Legal team is at the forefront of shaping the corporate landscape and redefining the boundaries of what is possible. We go beyond the traditional realms of a legal and compliance function. Transforming ourselves into strategic partners who help drive business growth, mitigating risks, and championing ethical and sustainable practices. Every day, our team deliver on groundbreaking transactions and navigate complex regulatory landscapes that help our organisation make a positive societal impact. Join us, and you'll be collaborating towards shared goals, solving complex challenges, and leaving an enduring legacy.

About the role

You will lead the review, design, implementation, and ongoing improvement of Essential Home’s global compliance programme and compliance monitoring activities.  In that capacity, you will use your experience managing legal and compliance risk in a diverse range of markets to develop and improve the compliance programme and connect and harmonise monitoring activities with existing and developing compliance controls.  You will also support the ongoing revision and consolidation of global policies.  From time to time, you may be asked to support other members of the Essential Home Legal & Compliance function, particularly in activities related to internal investigations and risk assessments.

The role will report to the Assistant General Counsel, Corporate and Compliance, Essential Home.

Your responsibilities

• Lead the global compliance programme for Essential Home with particular focus on anti-bribery and corruption, sanctions, competition law and relevant fraud prevention and anti-tax evasion legislation.
• Continually review, design, revise and implement risk monitoring activities that are connected to, and harmonized with, existing and future controls of Essential Home’s key legal and compliance risk areas.
• Design and implement risk monitoring and risk reporting tools and processes which assist the Legal & Compliance function and other functions within Essential Home to evaluate the performance of existing risk mitigation activities and controls and to determine focus areas for the ongoing management of key risk areas.
• Lead the revision and updating of cross-functional global policies for Essential Home, including coordination with relevant stakeholders and policy owners.
• As may be necessary from time to time, support other activities of the Legal & Compliance function, particularly internal investigations and enterprise and market-level risk assessments.

The experience we're looking for

• Qualification to practice law.
• 7+ years of experience in the practice or application of law and compliance, with substantial experience and demonstrated aptitude in the following areas:
  • providing advice and developing and implementing programmes focussed on risk mitigation, risk monitoring and risk reporting activities across multiple global markets; and
  • drafting and revising corporate policies that apply globally or across multiple markets and to multiple business functions.
• Native-level spoken and written English.
• Work experience in a multi-national environment, with experience in the UK/Europe/North America preferred.
• Experience with the performance of enterprise and market-level risk assessments preferred.
• Experience with internal investigation processes preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Strong legal and commercial acumen.

The skills for success

Integrity, Corporate Governance, Compliance Management, Solutions Focused, Excellent Communication Skills, Risk management, Commercial acumen, Fact-based Decision Making, Ability to manage and prioritize workload, Continuous Improvement Mindset, Legal Services.

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.