Senior Legal Counsel, Oral Health, serves as a key member of Haleon’s Global Commercial Legal team, providing comprehensive legal support to the Global Marketing and R&D functions.
The position acts as the primary legal adviser for the OH global category, delivering expert guidance across critical areas including advertising/marketing, claims, challenges involving competitors, product development, regulatory, compliance, corporate communications, and business transactions.
The role reports to the Assistant General Counsel, Head of Legal - Oral Health and collaborates closely with the Trademarks Senior Counsel, OH, the Patents Senior Counsel, OH, and senior leaders across the global Haleon organisation.
The OH Legal team covers all commercial and intellectual property matters for the business, and a key part of the role will be collaboration between these specialists to offer the best partnership for the category.
The focus will be on our category-leading oral health brands of Sensodyne, Parodontax, Corega and Aquafresh.
The OH business has been consistently the highest performing category across Haleon in recent years and it has a dedicated team, also based in the UK. This role will be the key legal partner for this part of the business.
Senior Legal Counsel, Oral Health also works in partnership with in‑market legal teams and colleagues across the Group Legal function, contributing broad expertise to enable effective, compliant, and strategically aligned business operations across the Haleon enterprise.