Senior Paralegal, Adult & Feminine Care

Senior Paralegal, Adult & Feminine Care

Job Description

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.

This role to be located in either Chicago, IL, or Neenah, WI and as the Senior Paralegal, Adult & Feminine Care, you’ll provide paralegal services focused primarily on marketing and advertising law and lend support across a wide range of sophisticated legal, business, and strategic matters, including commercial transactions. You’ll implement assigned projects independently, take initiative and find creative solutions in this exciting role.

In this role you will:

• Serve as a key point of contact for all marketing and advertising legal matters related to Poise, Depend, U by Kotex, Liv, and Thinx brands, providing sound, pragmatic guidance on a wide range of matters to facilitate delivery of business results

• Provide ongoing support for the business’s multi-channel marketing and advertising initiatives as directed by legal counsel, helping to drive and enable business strategy with respect to innovation and marketing and advertising claims development and substantiation

• Identify risks and opportunities relating to marketing and advertising strategies and campaigns for business clients and other stakeholders

• Review marketing, advertising, promotional materials, and packaging-related materials  to ensure compliance with applicable legal requirements, KCNA Legal guidelines, and corporate policies

• Identify and participate in educational opportunities, including webinars, on legal developments impacting consumer packaged-goods products, including developments at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) relevant to marketing and advertising, and in the areas of claim substantiation, endorsements and testimonials, social governance, and sustainability claims

• Help support advertising and consumer protection-related disputes (including false advertising, National Advertising Division (NAD) challenges, FTC matters, Lanham Act actions, and class actions) as well as other claims and regulatory inquiries

• Work closely with Kimberly-Clark’s regulatory team responsible for advising the business on all aspects of regulatory compliance for products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Health Canada, including with respect to product development, marketing strategies, and day-to-day compliance activities

• Provide paralegal support for M&A and strategic transaction initiatives

• Work with Kimberly-Clark’s intellectual property team to identify legal issues related to licensing, marketing, trademarks, trade secrets, patents and other intellectual property

• Conduct legal research

• Assist in developing and maintaining knowledge resources relating to marketing and commercial best practices, helping to create and provide training and designing processes to enhance the management and protection of Kimberly-Clark’s brands and businesses as well as drive and promote a comprehensive and effective compliance and ethics culture

• Assist in retaining a strong team with diverse experiences and perspectives  

• Collaborate and be a strong team member of KCNA’s legal team and Kimberly-Clark’s global legal team

This role reports to the Assistant General Counsel, Adult & Feminine Care, Kimberly-Clark North America Personal Care.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

​About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a