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PZ Cussons

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Legal Officer

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🗓️ Posted 2026-08-07 Ilupeju Hybrid Legal
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market NA

About the Company

Building Brands For Life. Since our founding in Sierra Leone in 1884, we have been creating brands and products to delight, care for, and nourish consumers. Today, we are a listed consumer goods business headquartered in Manchester, UK, employing 2,000 people. Retaining the pioneering spirit of our founders, we are focused on building portfolios of locally-loved brands in our lead markets of the UK, ANZ, Nigeria and Indonesia across the core categories of Personal, Home and Baby Care. Our brands are used by millions of people around the world and include Carex, Childs Farm, Cussons Baby, Imperial Leather, Morning Fresh, Original Source, Premier, Sanctuary Spa, Stella and St.Tropez. We our guided by our Purpose: For Everyone. For Life. For Good. Seize the opportunity to be part of a unique brand-building business with an exciting vision for the future - where we dare to be bold, discover what's possible, and do the incredible. Manufacturing Specialties: Personal Care, Food and Nutrician, Homecare, Beauty, Electricals, Consumer Goods, FMCG, Fast-moving Consumer Goods, Brand building

Responsibilities

  • ● POSITION SNAPSHOT
  • ● Role: Legal Officer, Legal Function
  • ● Contract: Permanent Why Us and Why This Role Seize the opportunity to be part of a unique business with an exciting vision for the future - where we dare to be bold, discover what's possible, and do incredible. Dare. Discover. Do.
  • ● At PZ Cussons, we offer five big reasons that people join and stay: Futureproof Our Brands, Create Your Own Impact, Accelerate Your Craft, Flexibility to Perform, And Collaborate with Intent.
  • ● As a Legal Officer, you'll help strengthen the legal, governance and compliance foundations that support our businesses across Africa. Working closely with legal, commercial and leadership teams, you'll play an important role in managing legal and regulatory risk while enabling the business to move forward with confidence. From supporting commercial agreements to maintaining strong governance practices and compliance processes, your work will help protect our brands, people and reputation. This is a fantastic opportunity to build broad regional experience while contributing to a business that makes a meaningful impact in the markets we serve. What You'll Be Doing
  • ● Help the business make informed decisions by drafting, reviewing and supporting the delivery of commercial contracts that balance opportunity and risk.
  • ● Strengthen governance standards by supporting board, committee and statutory processes, ensuring key obligations are met accurately and on time.
  • ● Drive consistency across African markets through effective compliance monitoring, policy implementation and record management.
  • ● Maintain trusted legal and compliance information, ensuring critical documents, registers and contract records are accurate, accessible and up to date.
  • ● Provide valuable legal research and insight that supports decision-making, policy development and business projects.
  • ● Build strong relationships across commercial, supply chain, finance, HR and leadership teams to deliver practical legal and compliance support. What You'll Bring
  • ● An LL.B degree and qualification as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court.
  • ● Around 2-4 years of legal experience, ideally within a corporate, commercial or in-house environment.
  • ● Exposure to company secretarial, corporate governance, compliance or statutory filing activities.
  • ● Strong legal research, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and practically.
  • ● Confidence managing multiple priorities while maintaining attention to detail, accuracy and confidentiality.
  • ● Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and document management tools. What You'll Get In Return Our benefit brings together your total rewards in one place.
  • ● Key benefits we offer include:
  • ● Competitive annual bonus, pension, life assurance