About

Lawyer of over 20 years Ozge Ayoz joined Procter & Gamble (P&G) Switzerland in 2000 as a senior legal counsel for EMEA. After three years her role expanded to cover a range of regions within P&G operations, assuming a position as associate director and associate general counsel for Turkey, Caucasus, Arabian Peninsula and Pakistan. Ayoz reveals that this role grew her professional mastery and soft skills in Turkey: ‘It helped me to become an in-house lawyer without borders and developed my technical mastery, building diverse and collaborative relationships both internally and externally. It also educated me on how to bring legal solutions and create legal value across territories as an in-house lawyer in a multinational company’. Now as the legal leader of the Turkish arm of the US multinational consumer goods company, Ayoz has proven herself to be a dedicated leader who has created and maintained a high-performing team of five who are highly focused on supporting P&G’s business goals with end-to-end involvement in business planning, product launches and corporate restructuring projects. Thanks to Ayoz, the legal department is recognised as ‘indispensable business partners’ that leverages its technical mastery to guide the business with creative legal solutions to help deliver goals. Ayoz has positioned the legal team to be central to the transactional work of P&G in the region, with herself having a leadership role on multiple fronts. Ayoz is a board member of the company, and the rest of the legal department are members of functional leadership teams, working together with business leaders regularly.