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About the Role

Reporting to the Lead Legal and Compliance Counsel UK&I and Nordics, this role provides effective legal support primarily to the Nordics Haleon businesses, as well as UK&I and wider Europe businesses. The position requires deep commercial understanding and comprehensive legal support to business and legal stakeholders, acting as a strategically driven embedded business partner in the consumer healthcare field.

Responsibilities

Partner closely with UK&I and Nordics business, commercial, product, and operational teams to support strategic initiatives and day-to-day decision making.
Provide strategic legal advice to the Nordics Leadership Team.
Advise local and Europe-wide Marketing, Sales, and Support Functions on legal, compliance, transactional, litigation, and commercial issues.
Integrate legal expertise with a deep understanding of business and risk management.
Provide practical legal solutions and recommend courses of action that support the business with a commercial and proactive mindset.
Advise on applicable consumer protection law, pharmaceutical regulations, advertisement laws (especially digital advertisements), product development and launches, product safety, distribution models, and competition laws.
Handle other ad hoc legal matters.
Represent the organization externally to customers, suppliers, competitors, trade bodies, commercial associations, and government agencies.
Manage external advisors to ensure optimal and cost-effective legal support.
Educate key departments in markets about sound legal and compliance practices and new developments affecting their operations.
Develop scalable processes, policies, and trainings.
Drive simplification efforts across legal processes.
Create and own pragmatic business-minded templates and governance frameworks.
Advise on legal aspects of marketing, digital, and AI initiatives.
Support Haleon corporate entities, ensuring all operations align with legal requirements.
Interpret new or pending legislation and regulations, ensuring compliance and advising on strategic adjustments.

Requirements

UK legal qualification with significant post-qualification legal experience within FMCG, consumer healthcare, or the pharmaceutical industry.
Excellent communication skills, including careful listening to facilitate understanding of business needs.
Ability to translate complex legal considerations into practical business advice.
Data-driven decision making, balancing speed, precision, and risk.
Commitment to delivering high-quality results.
Strong negotiation and drafting skills.
Ability to operate independently with limited supervision.
High energy and motivation to learn new areas, stay current with relevant legal developments, influence leadership, and contribute to the success of the business and the Europe Legal team.
EU legal qualification with legal experience advising Nordic businesses (preferred).
Nordic language proficiency (preferred).
Experience working in a multinational and matrixed environment (preferred).
Experience with e-commerce (preferred).
Combination of top-tier law firm and in-house experience (preferred).

Skills

Legal support
Commercial understanding
Legal advice
Risk management
Consumer protection law
Pharmaceutical regulations
Advertisement laws
Digital advertisements
Product development
Product launches
Product safety
Distribution models
Competition laws
External representation
Legal process development
Policy development
Training development
Process simplification
Template creation
Governance framework development
Marketing law
Digital initiatives
AI initiatives
Corporate law
Legislative interpretation
Regulatory compliance
Communication skills
Negotiation skills
Drafting skills
Independent work
Learning agility
Influencing skills

Location

United Kingdom
Ireland
Sweden
Denmark
Norway
Finland

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Significant post qualification legal experience

Education Level

UK legal qualification
EU legal qualification (preferred)

About the Company

Haleon is a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company focused on everyday health.
The company has a trusted portfolio of brands including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum®.
Haleon's approach combines deep human understanding with trusted science.
The company operates with a 'Win as One' strategy, prioritizing its purpose of delivering better everyday health with humanity.
Haleon fosters an agile, performance-focused culture.

Equal Opportunity

Haleon is committed to mobilizing its purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on its brands.
The company strives to create an inclusive culture where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected.
Haleon aims to be a place where all employees feel they truly belong.
Personal information shared during the application process is voluntary and used to meet regulatory and reporting obligations, and to support inclusion and belonging programs.
Provided personal information is kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making employment decisions.
Haleon will provide all reasonable adjustments to support candidates throughout the recruitment process and will treat all provided information in confidence.