Company Secretary

Company Secretary

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 Company Secretary, you will play a critical role in supporting global corporate governance across joint ventures and complex entity structures.

Working closely with Legal, Finance, Tax and Treasury teams, you will ensure robust governance frameworks, statutory compliance, and effective board operations across the IFP organization and its subsidiaries.

It starts with YOU

You will report directly to the Corporate General Counsel IFP and will be managing a direct report.

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

Key Responsibilities:

·  Establish and maintain a corporate governance framework for joint ventures, including clear guidelines for board and committee meetings, agendas, and minutes.

·  Coordinate governance across global subsidiaries, partnering with Finance, Tax, Treasury and Controllership to meet legal, regulatory, and audit requirements.

·  Draft, review and maintain statutory records, board and shareholder minutes, and ensure timely and accurate filings with Companies House.

·  Lead the migration to appropriate company secretarial software and support the creation of new entity structures and restructurings within IFP.

·  Support M&A and strategic initiatives by preparing corporate documentation, drafting approvals and minutes, and coordinating internal authorizations.

·  Supervise and support Assistant Company Secretary and Paralegal activities, including entity maintenance, signatory lists, powers of attorney, and use of Docusign.

·  Support corporate and sustainability reporting initiatives, including the UK Modern Slavery Report, audit responses, and ad‑hoc governance queries.

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

Required Qualifications: 

·  Significant previous experience working as a Company Secretary, ideally qualified in England & Wales.

·  Deep expertise in the UK Companies Act and multi‑jurisdictional corporate governance.

·  Proven experience supporting boards and complex corporate structures.

·  Strong drafting ...