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Legal Counsel

2 months ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom British American Tobacco Full time

About the Role

The Legal Counsel, Scientific and Regulatory is a key member of the British American Tobacco UK legal team, responsible for providing proactive and business-relevant legal counsel to support the company's Research & Science strategy. This role will work closely with the Senior Counsel to provide advice and support on all legal issues and regulatory considerations for BAT's scientific and regulatory pipeline.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support the Senior Counsel in providing legal support to the Science function and mitigating legal risks in proposed and operational science activities, including regulatory, intellectual property, data protection, consumer protection, competition, and compliance.
  • Provide regulatory advice relevant to the product and science functions, including updates on new and potential regulations relevant to the portfolio, including rules on new materials, thresholds, and notification to authorities.
  • Understand stakeholders' key demands and perspectives, ensuring good stakeholder engagement and management practice to meet their needs.
  • Identify and mitigate legal risk in proposed initiatives, including intellectual property, competition, standards of business conduct, data protection.
  • Provide commercially focused advice on key legal and regulatory issues in a straightforward and compelling way directly to stakeholders, enabling the delivery of results while managing legal, regulatory, and other risks.
  • Develop, organize, and support the appropriate training on key legal and regulatory issues of relevance.
  • Proactively counsel the product teams in identifying and mitigating future regulatory risks.
  • Review regulatory approaches in other sectors, identifying synergies and potential trends that may apply to BAT.

Requirements

  • Understanding of legal and regulatory issues relating to industry opportunities, threats, and compliance requirements.
  • Experience of counseling partners on product queries and post-launch regulatory requirements.
  • Hands-on and flexible attitude, sound commercial judgment, and ability to work under pressure and to cope with unexpected and varied demands.
  • Ability to provide creative solutions to business challenges while ensuring that legal and reputational risk is kept to an acceptable level.
  • Awareness of legal issues relating to competition and IP to enable potential issues to be identified at an early stage of an initiative, and an understanding of legal duty of care issues in the context of product liability.
  • Experience of contract drafting and negotiation.
  • Qualified lawyer (with 5-7+ PQE years or equivalent) with experience in commercial, product, and regulatory law.
  • Proven experience in private legal practice and in-house experience (via secondment or previous placement), and knowledge of product and consumer regulations as well as understanding on science aspects.

What We Offer

  • We offer a market-leading annual performance bonus (subject to eligibility).
  • Our range of benefits varies by country and includes diverse health plans, initiatives for work-life balance, transportation support, and a flexible holiday plan with additional incentives.
  • Your journey with us isn't limited by boundaries; it's propelled by your aspirations. Join us at BAT and become a part of an environment that thrives on internal advancement, where your career progression isn't just a statement – it's a reality we're eager to build together.
  • You'll have access to online learning platforms and personalized growth programs to nurture your leadership skills.
  • We prioritize continuous improvement within a transformative environment, preparing for ongoing changes.

Why BAT?

We're one of the few companies named as a Global Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute – certified in offering excellent employee conditions.

At BAT, we champion collaboration, inclusion, and partnership as the bedrock of our values. We wish to foster an environment where every individual can thrive, irrespective of factors such as gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, color, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, skills, experience, education, socio-economic and professional background, as well as diverse perspectives and thinking styles.

We recognize that our strength lies in embracing talent from all walks of life, empowering us to develop our culture of inclusivity and better achieve our business objectives.

We view career breaks not as obstacles but as opportunities and encourage everyone, without hesitation, to apply. Through our Global Returners program, we provide support to professionals seeking to re-enter the workforce after an extended absence, be it for family care, parental leave, national service, sabbatical, or starting their own venture.

Come bring your difference and see what is possible for you at BAT. Learn more about our culture and our award-winning employee experience here.

We take pride in being a Disability Confident Employer. If you need any reasonable adjustments or accommodations to be made during the recruitment process to support you performing at your best, please inform the recruitment partner who will be in touch should your profile be selected for the role you applied for. We are wholeheartedly committed to optimizing your prospects of success by making suitable arrangements so that you may showcase your full potential.