General Counsel Home Care Southeast Asia

Job Title: General Counsel Home Care Southeast Asia (Director)

Location: Thailand or Vietnam

**Company Overview and Opportunity**:
Unilever’s Home Care Business Group comprises Fabric Cleaning, Fabric Enhancers, Dishwashing and Household Cleaner categories. HC accounts for ~20% of Unilever’s Turnover and includes €1bn+ household brands like Dirt is Good and Surf, as well as other brands like Radiant, Comfort, Sunlight, Domestos and Cif. We are one of the leading global players. We are the undisputed leader in Developing and Emerging markets.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lawyer to join the Homecare Legal Team, to support the Southeast Asia (SEA) region. This role is suitable for combining the responsibilities with a General Counsel role for a country within the SEA region, as an integrated role. At the moment, the role is combined with the general counsel role for Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, but there is flexibility in adapting it to suit your experience. The location for this role can be in any major HomeCare market within the SEA region. Local conditions apply.

**MAIN JOB DESCRIPTION**

Broad legal business partner leadership role - the key areas of responsibility are summarized below. We are looking for an internationally minded, highly collaborative lawyer who leads by example and has a successful track record in talent and team management.

**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**

**General**
- Legal business partner to President Home Care SEA for all HomeCare matters in SEA, supported by HomeCare lawyers within the SEA region
- Member of the Home Care Leadership Team for SEA
- Member of the global Homecare Legal Leadership Team
- Manager of several HomeCare lawyers within the SEA region
- Developing and evolving the HomeCare SEA legal strategy and priorities
- Managing legal input to SEA HomeCare business from sourcing to selling
- Developing and maintaining relationships with relevant external contacts (e.g. legal functions of key customers, Governmental organisations, regulators, trade / industry associations, law firms and external bodies)
- Legal business partner for national legal tasks and HomeCare to Head of Country & senior country team for Country GC role (optional).

**Consumer product laws in Homecare industry**
- Good understanding of key SEA laws and the SEA Legal environment that applies to Homecare, for instance what regulators are focusing on, trends, enforcement areas of priorities, competitor challenges (inbound and outbound).
- Experience with chemicals and environmental regulations, sustainability agenda, advertising rules and interaction with advertising authorities.
- Product recall rules and regulations.
- Previous work experience supporting Homecare is desirable.

**Legal business partnering**
- Provide cross-functional advice and co-ordinated risk analysis to the Homecare BU manager and leadership team for SEA regarding Investor Boards, business growth initiatives, strategic business priorities, brand projects and product compliance. This includes for the legality of product claims, input into preparation of product art work and communication materials in accordance with all relevant legal rules across the SEA region.
- Coordinate competitive challenges inbound and outbound to align with HomeCare strategies.
- Support relevant Issue Management Teams, and various cross-category / divisional groups and initiatives regarding legal aspects of product safety, product recall, PR risks.
- Drive brand strategies and product launches in SEA with support of a network of global, regional and local HomeCare lawyers.
- Closely collaborate with Unilever’s Trademark counsels and other IP experts to ensure IP assets are optimally protected and enforced.
- Draft, advise on, review and negotiate, commercial contracts.
- Consumer law
- Marketing and advertising law
- Regulatory and product liability law
- Commercial contracts
- Business Integrity
- Intellectual property (in particular trademarks)
- Competition law

**BEHAVIOURS**

**Passion**:

- Passionate about taking care of and improving the lives of people every day, bringing the voice of the consumer into everything we do;
- Passion for the HomeCare business and for understanding how businesses operate;
- Passionate about empowering, developing and inspiring your direct reports.

**Entrepreneurial Thinking**:

- Ability to understand the big picture from a business point of view and adopt the appropriate legal risk profile to deliver against the top business priorities as opposed to getting lost in every detail
- A focussed, solution orientated mindset on the issues related to SEA while maintaining a global mindset on the wider HomeCare business.

**Ways of working**:

- Ability to assimilate information quickly across the SEA region, identify legal risks and provide solutions-oriented, pragmatic advice to the business and make decisions together with the business colleagues;
- A positive attitude and can-do attitude despite of cha