Beauty & Wellbeing General Counsel

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Beauty & Wellbeing Business Group

Beauty & Wellbeing (B&W) includes some of Unilever’s most exciting categories including Skin Care and Hair Care with brands like Dove, Sunsilk, Clear and Vaseline. We are also home to our Prestige portfolio of luxury brands such as Dermalogica, Hourglass and Living Proof; and Health & Wellbeing, a carefully crafted collection of Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements brands including Liquid I.V., Nutrafol and OLLY. 

We are building a unified and mutually supportive team of people who are beauty and wellbeing-obsessed, consumer-focused and driven by a passion for winning. Our role is to add value to our brands, deliver tangible beauty benefits through our products, create desire, and pioneer trends. 

With more than 1 billion people using our products every day, we have an opportunity to use our scale for good. We’re embracing a new era of beauty and wellbeing. One that’s inclusive. Equitable. Regenerative. Positive. So that people and the planet can thrive together. 

JOB PURPOSE

Find your purpose at Unilever. You will lead innovations, big and small, that will make our business win and grow. You will learn from brilliant business leaders and colleagues in a truly global and diverse culture to ultimately become a better you. If you are  someone who understands the PTAB regions legislation and has partnered business's   to provided legal advice aligned to support commercial objectives effectively then this role is just for you.

WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE

This critical leadership position will serve as the General Counsel for the Beauty and Wellbeing Business Group across the dynamic and diverse PTAB region. The role will provide strategic legal counsel and direction to the business, ensuring compliance, mitigating risk, and supporting growth initiatives. The General Counsel will be a key member of the regional leadership team, contributing to overall business strategy and decision-making. 

Maintaining relationships with Group General Counsel B&W, Beauty & Wellbeing General manager PTAB and Business Unit leadership team members, B&W Legal Leadership Team, Power of One Functions and B&W Business Integrity Officer, B&W Marketing Counsels

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO SUCCEED

Experiences & Qualifications

• Legal degree and post graduate studies
• Admitted to practice in UAE
• Corporate experience – min 12 years
• Cross-geographical experience
• Language – English. Arabic as a plus

Your experience has allowed you to acquire solid knowledge of the economic and regulatory sector of the consumer goods sector in PTAB region, as well as in commercial contract law and distribution law.  This role will support all SC and all ER/ IR related challenges hence you must have relevant experience and expertise to support with Blue collar and factory related litigations.

Skills

Legal Business Partnering:

• Acting as the first point of contact for BU leadership team in the geography, including marketing, sales, distribution, innovation, activation, and related legal issues.
• Provide proactive legal advice on marketing claims and advertising campaigns, ensuring compliance with local and regional regulations, advertising codes, and industry best practices. 
• Review and approve marketing materials, including digital content, print advertisements, and promotional activities, to minimize legal risks. 
• Advise on influencer marketing, social media campaigns, and other emerging marketing strategies. 
• Manage and resolve advertising disputes and challenges. 

Compliance and Risk Management: Ensuring compliance, including Business Integrity, Competition law, Privacy, AI working in close Collaboration with Power of One teams and Business Integrity Officer B&W

Litigation and Dispute Resolution: In collaboration with Litigation team, managing incoming and outgoing disputes in the market

Strategic Legal Advice: Providing guidance on major agreements, product claims, marketing materials, and other business initiatives.

Collaboration with Global Teams: Working closely with Unilever's Power of One Functions to align strategies and share best practices.

Training and Education: Conducting training sessions on legal topics to ensure compliance and awareness within the organization.

Operational Leadership: Enable an effective operating model by leveraging technology, Power Houses, Power of One functions, and external legal support, including collaborations with law firms and alternative legal service providers.

Budget Management: Oversee and manage the legal budget in alignment with Unilever's functional guidelines.   

SOFT SKILLS

Business Acumen: Understanding the business's strategic goals and aligning legal advice to support commercial objectives effectively.

Stakeholder Management: Building strong partnerships with internal business units to ensure legal strategies are integrated with overall business strategies.

Decision-Making: Delivering sound and timely legal recommendations that consider business risks and opportunities.

Strategic Thinking: Anticipating future trends and legal challenges to proactively address potential business impacts.

Influencing Skills: Persuading and guiding stakeholders towards decisions that are both legally sound and business-forward.

Prioritization: Balancing competing business needs while delivering practical and actionable legal solutions within tight timelines.

Effective Communication:  The ability to convey complex legal concepts in a clear and concise manner to non-legal stakeholders.

• A proactive approach to identifying and resolving legal and business challenges creatively and efficiently.

Collaboration and Teamwork: Working seamlessly with cross-functional teams, including marketing, supply chain, and external legal partners.

• Staying flexible and responsive to the fast-paced and ever-changing business and regulatory landscape.

Leadership

• You are an inclusive motivator of people. Your team deliver with real passion, growing and learning from each other whilst delivering quick wins.
• You are still responsible for your own results and as a manager, you also need to motivate others to deliver with passion, creating an inclusive and engaging climate around you. You can balance challenge with support and coaching. You understand the wider business context and you are emotionally intelligent enough to motivate people to deliver what is needed.

• Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
  • PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Has emotional intelligence to take feedback, manage mood and motivations, and build empathy for others.
  • PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
  • TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people – coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
  • PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
  • CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
  • BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.

Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. 

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.