Legal Counsel – Brand & Product Regulation

The Role

We’re looking for a Legal Counsel – Brand & Product Regulation to join our Legal team in London or at our Head Office in Bristol.

This is an exciting opportunity to work at the centre of a fast-moving, global and highly regulated environment, providing expert legal advice across brand and product regulation matters while partnering closely with stakeholders across multiple markets and functions.

You’ll play a key role in advising on legal developments impacting brands and products across Imperial, supporting projects and helping ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations globally.

This role offers excellent exposure across the business and the opportunity to work on complex legal issues in a collaborative and international environment.

Principle Accountabilities

• Provide expert legal advice and support on brand and product regulation matters across Imperial Brands.
• Advise stakeholders on legal and regulatory developments relating to products, packaging, claims, marketing, and compliance requirements.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to deliver practical legal solutions while balancing legal, regulatory, and commercial risk.
• Support legal operations, regulatory projects and business initiatives within the specialist legal area, escalating issues where appropriate.
• Deliver legal training, guidance and knowledge sharing to internal stakeholders to increase awareness of key legal and regulatory developments.
• Support continuous improvement and best practice across legal processes, ensuring the business remains compliant with relevant legal and regulatory obligations.

Skills and Experience Required

• Qualified lawyer with relevant experience gained either in-house or in private practice, ideally with a focus on regulatory, product compliance, marketing or commercial legal matters.
• Experience advising within FMCG or another highly regulated industry; experience in tobacco regulation or Next Generation Products would be advantageous.
• Strong understanding of product compliance, brand and marketing law, with the ability to provide practical, commercially focused legal advice.
• Experience working across European markets, with the ability to navigate complex multi-market legal and regulatory requirements.
• Comfortable working in a small, hands-on team environment, with a self-sufficient approach and willingness to manage a broad range of legal, operational and administrative responsibilities.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including experience preparing PowerPoint materials, influencing stakeholders, challenging constructively, and delivering pragmatic, solution-focused recommendations.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.