Associate General Counsel - Employment & Labor

Associate General Counsel - Employment & Labor

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 Associate General Counsel – Employment & Labor, you will provide strategic employment and labor legal support to the International Family & Professional Care (IFP) People Organization and broader business.

This role delivers global leadership across employment and labor matters, oversees investigations and leads a global Employment & Labor Center of Excellence to drive best practices across the legal organization.

Reporting to the General Counsel, IFP, you will partner closely with senior leaders, legal colleagues and compliance teams worldwide to anticipate risk, enable transformation and support the company’s global workforce.

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:

·  Provide strategic employment and labor law advice globally, partnering with legal, People Organization, compliance and business stakeholders to address complex workforce matters

·  Establish strong global partnerships and serve as a trusted advisor on employment and labor issues impacting enterprise strategy and operations

·  Anticipate, assess and mitigate employment and labor risk to drive sound business outcomes

·  Oversee HR investigations and advise on a broad range of employment matters, including hiring, discipline, termination, compensation, benefits and restrictive covenants

·  Lead global employment and labor projects across legal and functional teams through influence and project management

·  Manage and defend employment‑related claims, including oversight of outside counsel, administrative charges, litigation and negotiated resolutions

·  Review, develop, and provide guidance on global HR policies, procedures and compliance training related to labor matters

·  Advise on labor relations issues, collective bargaining agreements, transformations, acquisitions, divestments and global mobility matters

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