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

Step into the world of Reckitt as a Head of Legal, where every decision you make matters. With your legal expertise, you will protect and empower a global organisation that's dedicated to making a difference. It's not just about the law; it's about being part of a team that inspires you to be the best. From safeguarding our operations to ensuring legal integrity, your role is pivotal to our collective success. Are you ready to make an impact where it really counts?

Your responsibilities

• General

1. Drive the legal support strategy and implementing the directions and processes required to provide a robust, timely, commercially-minded and risk-focused commercial support team.
2. Devise legal strategy to efficiently support business initiatives whilst ensuring business protection against legal compliance risks.
3. Assess and communicate technical legal risks and recommendations in a commercial context.
4. Deliver optimal legal solutions and ensure that legal resources are efficiently and effectively deployed to achieve business results.
5. Be part of Reckitt’s Global Legal team of legal professionals and support staff based in a number of locations worldwide. The candidate must be reactive and collaborative with their functional colleagues to provide excellent legal advice and support.

• Compliance & Risk Management: Develop and implement compliance strategies covering competition law, sanctions, bribery, data privacy, and product safety while supporting investigations and regulatory reporting.
• Litigation & Dispute Resolution: Lead litigation management, ensuring robust defense strategies and risk-focused legal advice for business operations. Ensure that cases are adequately defended before quasi-judicial forums.
• Contract Management: Oversee contract negotiations, distribution agreements, and legal process improvements to enhance efficiency and transparency.
• Corporate Governance & Company Secretariat: Manage corporate secretarial matters, board meetings, regulatory compliance, and multi-jurisdictional corporate projects. Lead ENA company secretarial liaison with global company secretary function, manage OGM, EOGM, Board of Directors’ meetings. Manage company registrations (e.g. Directors) and corporate certifications (e.g. incorporation certifications).
• Intellectual Property & Brand Protection: Support global brand protection and IP functions, managing trademark renewals, anti-counterfeit enforcement, and legal strategies working collaboratively with the Global Legal IP functions.
• Advertising & Marketing Law: Act as the key legal advisor on marketing claims, advertising compliance, and sponsorship approvals, ensuring regulatory alignment.
• Regulatory & Government Liaison: Serve as the lead legal contact for relevant authorities on compliance, corporate, and marketing matters.
• Strategic Legal Leadership: Provide legal guidance on high-impact corporate initiatives, collaborating with finance, tax, and supply chain teams.
• Operational Legal Excellence: Standardize legal templates, tools, and processes to optimize legal operations across ENA.

The experience we're looking for

• Flexible and ability to communicate proper, commercial legal solutions in a very wide range of solutions, and not just spotting problems, barriers or obstacles.
• Provide commercially relevant and pragmatic solutions that help achieve business goals.
• Work effectively “hands on” in a lean, cost-focused, efficiently managed and fast-moving organisation.
• Be a team player and demonstrate excellent cross-functional and inter-personal skills including proficiency in English, which is Reckitt’s working language.
• Be able to work with senior management directly in a clear, concise, and pragmatic way.
• Be independent and able to work with autonomy.
• Show ability to understand and act on legal implications, which may not be apparent to those without the expertise, and communicate those implications effectively to internal stakeholders.
• Have a sound analytical ability to assess potential risks, flag them and build adequate safeguard to avoid negative implications is a necessity.
• Maintain sensitivity in dealing with colleagues and stakeholders including regulators.
• Qualified lawyer with 10+ years post qualification experience in Egypt and North African markets.
• Possess leadership experience and relevant post graduate qualifications.
• Native proficiency in Arabic is a must.
• In-house work experience in consumer goods/retails/etc is an advantage.
• Demonstrate strong legal competencies in:Core areas of contract law, corporate and foreign direct investment, commercial law, intellectual property and compliance matters such as bribery laws, sanctions, competition law and data privacy;
• Good awareness of labour and employment matters, product liability and factory-related laws; and marketing, advertising & litigation experience

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, Qualified Lawyer.

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.