Legal Counsel

4 weeks ago

Croydon Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Superdrug Full time

Why Superdrug?
Passionate about Beauty and Health? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.
At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.
We're all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.
We have an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated, experienced, and talented commercial lawyer to join AS Watson UK's legal team ("Team Legal"), supporting our three beloved retail business units (Superdrug, Savers and The Perfume Shop).
This is a full-time (3 days per week in the office) or part-time role (4 days per week with 2 days per week in the office)
Building relationships and interacting with a variety of stakeholders in the business units and legal.
• Being the principal specialist legal advisor on Marketing & IP matters.
• Creating an agile strategy designed to support an effective and efficient compliance approach to Marketing & IP, ensuring the business units can evolve in the fast-paced environment in which we operate.
• Developing a robust and engaging training programme to ensure the business units are educated to deliver legally sound initiatives promoting a culture of good conduct and legal risk mitigation.
• Working collaboratively in cross-functional teams to support the delivery of new business initiatives (including for our IT and Online teams).
• Building a strong network of relationships with peers to benchmark legal approach, share best practice and promote the interests of the UK business units.
• Developing your relationship with relevant regulatory bodies (e.g. ASA) to keep abreast of a changing regulatory landscape and support the business unit operations.
• Supporting strategic commercial contracts, for example with marketing agencies.
• Building proactive plans to manage potential risk from changes to legislation.
• Keeping technically up to date, especially in the fast-moving areas of Marketing and IP.

You are dynamic, flexible, pragmatic, relatable and inspire trust and confidence from stakeholders at all levels and all areas of the business
• You have strong interpersonal skills, a commercial mindset and a proven ability to effectively influence with sensitivity and credibility
• You have a passion for what you do, meaning you always stay up to date with what's going on in the world of Marketing and IP.
• You can manage a project through to completion and are able to close projects effectively and promptly, while ensuring quality and attention to detail
• You have developed the ability to use a blend of data and great instincts to make decisions
• License to practice law in the UK, Europe, US or other common law jurisdiction
• At least 3 years PQE experience focused on Marketing and IP gained at a top law firm and/or in-house.
We are a diverse team on a mission to provide best in class support to the UK business by following our Team Legal Tenets, which are: Anticipate We proactively identify, monitor and offer options to mitigate potential legal and regulatory risks.
Advocate: We encourage high standards of compliance, ethics and integrity. We support decision making which is data-driven, customer obsessed and in the best long-term interests of the AS Watson Group.
We are problem-solvers who help to identify the root cause of issues and offer pragmatic solutions. The office: Our stylish, modern and collaborative office (take a look: here) is located a short 5-minute walk away from East Croydon train station. Frequent, fast and direct trains run to stations across London, including London Bridge (14 mins), London Victoria (17 mins) and London St Pancras (30 mins). We also have a large employee car park.
AS Watson is the world's largest international health and beauty retailer operating over 16,500 stores under 12 retail brands in 29 markets (2023 revenue
£In the UK, we operate three beloved retail brands: Superdrug; and The Perfume Shop, focussed on delighting customers both online + offline (O+O) through our c.33 days holiday rising to 38 days with length of service (inclusive of bank holidays)
~2 staff discount codes for yourself and a family member or friend
~30% discount on Superdrug Own Brand Products both in store and online
~ Hybrid working patterns available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station
~ Company pension matching and bonus
~ We offer Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
~ We are part of a group who work closely with Savers, The Perfume Shop and Three UK
~ Enhanced maternity/shared parental/adoption leave, company sick pay and pregnancy loss and support

30pm - Hybrid working available depending on role responsibilities with 2 days working from home and 3 days in our stylish, modern and collaborative office close to East Croydon Station.
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