Senior Counsel – Regulatory

Why Superdrug?

Passionate about Beauty and Health? Want to be part of an innovative, trend setting retailer? Our vibrant Head Office, based by East Croydon station is a fantastic environment filled with hundreds of brilliant personalities.

We’re a team that puts our customers and our teams at the heart of everything we do. At Superdrug, we aim to be the best in accessible health & beauty, loved by our customers for value, choice, friendly advice, service and fun.

Our success comes from our people – they make the difference. We’re all about personality, we have fun, and we work hard to deliver That Superdrug feeling.

Role Purpose:

We have an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated, experienced, and talented senior lawyer to join AS Watson UK’s legal team (“Team Legal”). You will act as the lead Regulatory lawyer (including for healthcare, product compliance and privacy) for three beloved retail business units (Superdrug, Savers and The Perfume Shop). Reporting to our Deputy General Counsel (Neil Humphryes), you will work cross-functionally with business and legal colleagues across our international group to develop effective strategies and policies related to a broad range of compliance topics.

The role can be full-time (3 days in the office) or part-time (2 days in the office).

A typical day in this role includes:

· Building relationships and interacting with a variety of stakeholders in the business units and legal.

· Being the principal specialist legal advisor on Regulatory matters.

· Creating an agile strategy designed to support an effective and efficient compliance approach, ensuring the business units can evolve in the fast -paced environment in which we operate.

· Developing a robust and engaging training programme to ensure the business units are educated to deliver legally sound initiatives promoting a culture of good conduct and legal risk mitigation.

· Working collaboratively in cross-functional teams to support the delivery of new business initiatives.

· Building a strong network of relationships with peers to benchmark legal approach, share best practice and promote the interests of the UK business units.

· Developing your relationship with relevant regulatory bodies (e.g. ICO and CMA) to keep abreast of a changing regulatory landscape and support the business unit operations.

· Horizon scanning and building proactive plans to manage potential risk from changes to legislation.

This job is a good fit for you if:

· You enjoy working in a fast paced, ever-changing environment

· You are dynamic, flexible, relatable and inspire trust and confidence from stakeholders at all levels and all areas of the business

· You have strong interpersonal skills, a commercial mindset and a proven ability to effectively influence with sensitivity and credibility

· You rise to a challenge and remain calm and composed during times of uncertainty and stress

· You have a passion for what you do.

· You can manage a project through to completion and are able to close projects effectively and promptly, while ensuring quality and attention to detail

· You are at your best when problem solving

· You can operate at both a strategic and operational level

· You have developed the ability to use a blend of data and great instincts to make decisions

· You are tech savvy and understand the importance of technology for enabling our operations and as a strategic pillar for your growth

· You like an international flavour to your work – the AS Watson Group is a global business – and you enjoy liaising with colleagues in different operations to deliver/receive support.

What you’ll need:

· License to practice law in the UK, Europe, US or other common law jurisdiction

· At least 5 years PQE experience focused on regulatory matters gained at a top law firm and/or in-hous