Legal & Compliance Head Southern Europe & Italy

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

Legal & Compliance Head Southern Europe & Italy

About the role:

The primary purpose of this job is to provide strategic legal leadership and business partnering to Business Heads within the Southern Europe (SE) region and at the country level, specifically for Italy. This involves embedded business partnering for the SE Business Unit (BU) and Italy.

• Managing the complexity of a single market (Italy) along with overseeing the SE BU.

• Supporting business heads to achieve goals by considering the best legal alternatives and providing business solutions.

• Excellent stakeholder management and multi-area collaboration.

• Identifying business challenges and proactively proposing/adjusting the legal support required.

• Effective communication with logic in writing and speaking, and having executive presence.

• Balancing between protecting and enabling the business: establishing boundaries of “no go” while proactively identifying opportunities to navigate in grey areas.

• Integrity, strong value orientation, flexibility, and good reading of scenarios.

• Agility in solving complex problems, even without the correct level of information/inputs.

• Working confidently with local, regional, and global teams, fitting within the culture.

• Business partnering with a focus on solutions while ensuring compliance with internal and external rules/laws.

• Working with local leadership, to collectively and visibly demonstrate tone from the top about compliance and its importance in successfully achieving the Win as One framework

• Fostering a culture of integrity and accountability, by questioning business practices/initiatives which appear inconsistent with the Code and/or Compliance policies

• Providing first line advice to the business on Compliance matters, escalating complex/material issues to Group in a timely manner and remaining abreast of local law requirements/enforcement trends

Key Responsibilities:

Member of both SE Leadership Team (LT) and Italy LT – clear understanding of the business needs and drive legal priorities accordingly as a strategic business partner. Provide pragmatic and proactive legal service that enables and protects the business. Adapt internal processes to the external environment (both commercial and regulatory) with effectiveness and agility. Proactively drive change and leverage knowledge sharing within the region and among other Legal, Compliance, and Corporate Services (LCCS) areas. Management of senior lawyers that lead the support to both the BU and Italian market. Experience with cross-regional legal matters and stakeholders management, good knowledge of regulatory matters, and people management.

Capabilities Essential to Perform the Role:

• Enterprise mindset and true partnership: joint collaboration at both business and LCCS levels.

• Knowledge application: deep understanding of what it takes to successfully execute a winning success model for Italy and the SE BU.

• Data-driven approach.

Requirements

Must Have:

• Experience in providing legal support to multiple countries within Europe.

• 8+ years of experience as an In-House Lawyer.

• Strong technical skills in commercial and consumer law.

• People skills – empathetic, good listener, capability to achieve objectives through others.

• Previous experience with FMCGs, or Tech, or Retail industries, preferably multinationals.

• Fluent in English.

• Fluent/native Italian.

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of labor, competition, and privacy laws.

• Experience in Compliance.

• Experience with managing small teams, preferably multicultural ones.

• Knowledge of Spanish/Portuguese.

Personal Attributes

• Flexible: easy to adapt to different environments and different styles of co-workers.

• Proactive: quickly understand the business environment/challenges and lean in to solve problems, seize new opportunities.

• Positiveness: embrace changes and influence others to do the same.

• Curious: dig into the details of complex problems.

• Collaborative: solution-oriented, quickly ask for help when needed and identify the right stakeholders to involve in each situation.

• Brave: identify the right opportunities to take risks based on well-balanced and grounded assessment.

Other Skills/Background:

• Commercial Acumen.

• Influence.

• Building Relationships.

• Deliver outstanding results through others (e.g., enhance the assessment of potential challenges to competitors).

• Manage the legal team and look for ways to improve the performance of the Legal area (unlock value): e.g., set a clear regional plan for simplification.

• Collaborate with other areas of the business focusing on its priorities (e.g., support innovation by liaising with R&D, marketing, and Global category lawyers).

• Help others respond to and adapt to change.

• Set engaging and clear goals and objectives.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone.

We’re striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.
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