General Counsel Israel

About the role

Arbex, a Kimberly-Clark business, is looking for a General Counsel for Israel. The role provides leadership and commercially astute legal advice to achieve the objectives of the Israel IFP business and ensures compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and company policies. It reports to the General Counsel UK & EMEA and sits alongside the General Counsel IFP.

Key responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day legal issues affecting Israel with the global legal team, including marketing and advertising issues with the Marketing Counsel and employment and labour issues with the Employment & Labour Counsel.
• Manage sales contracts and work with the global Procurement Counsel to support local mills.
• Be a member of the IFP Israel Leadership Team.
• Develop and implement a strategic process for using external counsel in Israel.
• Lead regulatory investigations, legal disputes and claims.

Required profile

• Legal lead for legal matters in Israel, reporting to the General Counsel UK & EMEA.
• Strong project management skills, close but unbiased relationship with the business, and proven ability to act as a trusted business partner and leader.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, culturally sensitive and adaptable in style.
• Team player, collaborative, confident and pragmatic, with commercial awareness and the ability to think outside the box.
• Ability to distill key risks and develop actionable risk management solutions.
• Willingness to travel to K-Cs operations in Israel and to the Global HQ occasionally.

Required skills

• Good knowledge of contract law, antitrust, anticorruption, corporate governance, IP, regulatory (including EHS) and marketing/advertising laws, including claims and data privacy.
• Proven ability to build sound compliance programs and processes.
• Integrity, rational and analytic thinking, and sound, unbiased judgment.
• Preferred: qualification to practice law with at least 8 years of experience in an international company or law firm, preferably in an international FMCG company, and fluency in Modern Hebrew and English.

What we offer

• A flexible work model blending remote work with intentional in-person collaboration.
• Full-time regular employee position based at the Tzrifin office.