Global Marketing Counsel

Global Marketing 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 the Global Marketing Counsel for the International Family and Professional Care (IFP) business, you will provide commercially astute legal leadership to support global growth and innovation initiatives.

You will partner closely with marketing, innovation and compliance teams to enable compliant, consumer‑focused product development and advertising, from ideation through launch, while managing risk and protecting the enterprise.

It starts with YOU

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 legal advice to support global marketing, advertising and product innovation activities from ideation through commercialization, including claims development and substantiation.

·  Partner closely with Global Growth and Innovation organizations, acting as a trusted advisor and active leader on advertising, marketing and consumer‑facing legal matters worldwide.

·  Anticipate, assess and mitigate legal and regulatory risk to enable business objectives while ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations and company policies.

·  Defend, supervise, and manage advertising‑related claims and disputes, including oversight of outside counsel, regulatory inquiries and settlement negotiations.

·  Collaborate with Innovation teams and Intellectual Property (IP) Counsel to ensure appropriate protection of intellectual property arising from new products and technologies.

·  Lead and influence cross‑functional and global legal projects through strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills.

·  Serve as a key member of the IFP Legal Team, contributing to global legal strategy and governance.

·  Manage and supervise the Supply Chain Counsel, providing guidance, development and performance leadership.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

·  Qualified t...