Join us in Legal & External Affairs
We can all see how fast our industry is changing. Be part of our mission to responsibly shape our environment to enable sustainable growth for A Better Tomorrow™.
Legal and External Affairs (LEX) is a diverse group of specialists dedicated to empowering our people to act responsibly and manage risks in a world of complex, shifting regulatory spaces.
Why LEX?
Everything we do in LEX links directly to enabling BAT’s A Better Tomorrow™ transformation.
Through our 500-strong global LEX team, we lead BAT’s global approach to promoting delivery with integrity. We take responsibility for protecting our brands, our people and operations, our products, commercial interests, and corporate reputation. We strive to make valuable contributions to policy development, transparently and with integrity. Our diverse team and complex portfolio offers our people a wide range of opportunities to enhance their professional careers.
What could you be doing?
Our industry is changing lightning fast – and we always aim to keep pace with change. We collaborate across our global team of legal and external engagement professionals to actively shape and secure our business. Bring your energy, commitment and a passion to drive our strategy and facilitate growth.
Select from our areas
The innovation and global impact of BAT’s New Category products puts LEX at the heart of a driven cross-functional team that meets new challenges every day and has a real opportunity to shape regulation and the business’ direction. This dynamic environment is exciting and rewarding.
Sara Scott, Senior Counsel, Marketing & Regulatory Counselling Vapour
Business Conduct and Compliance
Our Role
As a member of our Business Conduct and Compliance team, you’ll lead our global approach to empower our people to deliver with integrity. You’ll act as the custodian of our Standards of Business Conduct, and drive a consistent approach to our management of legal and regulatory risks across a broad range of topics.
Our Story
We are the trusted business partners to our global operations and Global Business Solutions teams. Our security team delivers a global, consistent and integrated service to secure the business, its people, assets and information.
Company Secretarial & Corporate Legal
Our Role
In Company Secretarial & Corporate Legal, we make sure that we meet our listing obligations and advise on major corporate acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures, liquidity management and corporate financing, and legal matters relating to employees in our workplace.
Our Story
Our teams drive excellence in corporate governance and ensure we’re achieving our business objectives in an honest, transparent and accountable way.
Marketing, Regulation, Litigation & IP
Our Role
Our Marketing, Regulation & Litigation team provides business-focused expertise across commercial and regulatory disciplines to our marketing, product development and scientific research teams to unlock the potential of our product portfolios worldwide.
Our Story
Through our patent and trademark specialists, our team protects and enhances our intellectual property. Our team also includes litigation specialists that manage strategic regulatory litigation, intellectual property disputes and external investigations.
Government Affairs & External Engagement
Our Role
The Government Affairs & External Engagement team develops global foresights and proactively drives transparent external engagement with governments, regulators, NGOs and other external organisations around the world.
Our Story
Proactive external engagement is our way to protect our business today and work to responsibly shape our future environment.