Overview
Legal Counsel, Global Indirect Procurement (Slough, Berkshire, GB, SL1 1DT)
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
We’re looking for a motivated legal professional to join our Group Legal Procurement team at our Corporate Headquarters in Slough, UK. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a FTSE 100 organisation and play a meaningful role in supporting global procurement efforts.
In this role, you’ll offer expert legal contract guidance and collaborate with our Global Indirect Procurement teams—working closely with colleagues across Slough, Amsterdam, and beyond. You’ll partner on a wide range of procurement categories including Marketing, SaaS, IT&D, Professional Services, CAPEX, Warehousing, Energy, and Logistics.
As part of the Global Procurement Legal Leadership Team and the wider Legal & Compliance community, you’ll help shape strategic procurement and commercial arrangements, working in partnership with the Head of Legal, Global Indirect Procurement.
Your responsibilities
- Drafting, negotiating, and supporting various procurement agreements (including supply, confidentiality, services, CAPEX, warehousing, energy, and freight/logistics, SaaS, Professional Services, and IT&D agreements ) governed by English Law.
- Providing strategic advice and support for large-scale procurement and commercial activities.
- Offering legal counsel on complex international commercial transactions, including contract and competition law.
- Collaborating closely with the Global Procurement teams, various business units, the Global Legal Procurement team, and other members of the Reckitt Group Legal team (including Group Compliance, Data Protection, Global Innovation Legal, Patents, Insurance and Brand Protection teams).
The experience we're looking for
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- UK Law degree and admission as a lawyer/solicitor in the UK (or a similar common law jurisdiction).
- 4-6 years of post-qualification experience in an international environment, either in private practice at a law firm or as an in-house lawyer in a multinational corporation.
- Proven experience in drafting procurement and other commercial agreements; experience in direct procurement is a plus.
- Advanced computer skills, including experience with contract management software and a solid understanding of information systems.
- Fluency in English, both oral and written; additional languages are a plus.
Personal Attributes:
- Ability to build strong working relationships with demanding business partners and stakeholders.
- Organised, detail-oriented, and analytical, combined with the agility to see the bigger picture and take a risk-based approach.
- A collaborative team player.
- Self-motivated and capable of working independently, yet confident to be challenged and tested, per our matrix structure.
- Robust, confident, and able to work autonomously with a strong business orientation.
- Ability to manage complex legal issues with integrity, commercial acumen, and pragmatism.
- Ambition to learn, grow and develop to become the next generation of leadership.
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.
