Intellectual Property Counsel

Intellectual Property Counsel

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Andrex®, Kleenex® and Kimberly-Clark Professional®.

At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

About You

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

As Intellectual Property (IP) Counsel for our International Family and Professional Care (IFP) business, you will act as a senior subject‑matter specialist for intellectual property matters, with primary responsibility for trademarks and brand protection and advanced involvement in patent‑related and innovation‑driven IP issues.

You will partner closely with Marketing, Innovation, Supply Chain and Procurement teams to ensure IFP’s brands, innovations and IP assets are protected, leveraged and used effectively in line with business strategy and company policies.

You will report directly to the Corporate General Counsel IFP and will be an individual contributor (no direct reports).

Location: we can offer a hybrid model (on remote / Walton Oaks Office) for candidates already based in the UK.

Key Responsibilities:

·  Act as the primary IP advisor for IFP trademark matters, owning day‑to‑day trademark strategy, portfolio management, clearance, registration, maintenance and lifecycle decision‑making.

·  Provide authoritative guidance to Growth (Marketing and Brand) teams on trademark use, naming, packaging, advertising and brand extensions, balancing legal protection with commercial objectives.

·  Lead and coordinate trademark enforcement and brand protection actions, including counterfeiting, infringement, product diversion and grey‑market matters, working with external counsel, platforms and authorities as required.

·  Serve as the IFP point of contact for patent‑adjacent and innovation‑related IP matters, supporting invention disclosures, freedom‑to‑operate assessments, product launches and IP risk evaluations.

·  Advise on IP provisions in commercial, Research & Development (R&D), licensing, procurement and supply chain agreements, including ownership, licensing, confidentiality and background/foreground IP structures.

·  Proactively identify and manage IP‑related risks across the IFP portfolio, providing clear, risk‑based recommendations to senior business stakeholders.

·  Contribute to cross‑functional and ...