Legal Counsel - OTC

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. 

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About the role

Be apart of our dynamic legal force that underpins our global success at Reckitt. As out Over the Counter Legal Counsel, you will provide legal advice and support to Reckitt in relation to its global product innovation and marketing activities. Working closely with OTC marketing and R&D stakeholders within our Category Development Organisation Health business.

Your responsibilities

In summary, you'll:

• Support the Global Research and Development teams with commercial contracts required to facilitate product innovation including Confidentiality, Supply, Development and Clinical trial agreements.
• Support Global Medical team with KOL agreements and related medical channel activities.
• Support on potential contractual disputes, competitor challenges and litigious matters; co-ordinating tracking of same across IMEX organisations and sharing insights.
• Advise the Global Marketing teams on product claims and strategies and consumer law issues; implementing consistent approach and tracking between brands and categories.
• Work closely with in house patent and trademark specialists.
• Work with Legal colleagues based around the globe to ensure consistent legal approach via training and optimisation of legal processes.

The experience we're looking for

• Experience of advising FMCG or Healthcare companies and knowledge of the consumer goods sector.
• Intellectual Property experience.
• Commercial contract negotiation and drafting.
• Marketing and Advertising Law experience.
• Experience of working in an in-country market executional role.
• Experience of working across a range of product categories including medicines, medical devices, cosmetics and general products.
• Knowledge of healthcare environment including the medical and pharmaceutical channel, of medical and regulatory agencies such as the MHRA (UK) and ANSM (France), of medical professionals (eg key opinion leaders) and of public healthcare systems such as the NHS (UK) especially in relation to reimbursement and prescription- and/or pharmacy-only medicines.

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.

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.