A strong commercial legal understanding, combined with excellent business acumen and communication skills is required for this challenging but highly rewarding role. A regional role but a key member of a global team, you will be helping solve issues and navigate successful outcomes across many areas of law and across a wide geography of Southeast Asia. Excellent salary and benefits our being offered by this prestigious and professional company.
Our Client
Building on 60 years of experience, the Company is a global animal healthcare leader with a diversified portfolio of quality medicines and vaccines, complemented by diagnostics products and supporting by a range of services. Today, they are building a new kind of animal healthcare company, one that is ready to help create a healthier future for all animals.
Our Client Requires
The lawyer has responsibility for providing and/or coordinating legal support for the local organisations in Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam, a number of distribution markets in Southeast Asia including Malaysia and Singapore, as well as certain regional functions based in Singapore.
Your Role
- Function as a strategic partner to help the business solve problems and advance business goals
- Translate legal advice to actions that deliver business value
- Manage and provide legal support including counselling, negotiation and drafting of agreements, litigation support, regulatory support and review of promotional materials
- Independently make assessments in various fields of law, including competition law, privacy and employment law and ensure compliance with the applicable laws
- Independently lead projects within the legal field
- Give support to the regions in compliance matters, give compliance training and ensure that local compliance SOP’s are updated
- Provide support to the applicable leadership teams
Qualifications
- 5-7 years of legal experience required (a meaningful time in private practice with prominent law firm and some in-house time preferred)
- Recognised legal degree that qualifies the candidate to practice law in a jurisdiction in the sub-region with solid academic qualifications
- Excellent command of English (both written and spoken) and preferably fluent in Thai (both written and spoken), as well as preferably a good understanding of at least one other language in the region
- Excellent business acumen and able to understand the competitive landscape and constantly seeking ways to enhance the Company’s competitive position
- Ability to work in complex and challenging international environments, independently and with others as part of team
- Ability to exercise independent thinking while communicating a collaborative attitude
- Strong written and oral communication, analytical, organisational, strategic thinking and problem solving skills
- Ability to provide concise, pragmatic and timely advice to the business whilst understanding the commercial and legal aspects
- Ability to work effectively in a global environment
- Have substantial experience of working with compliance matters such as anti-corruption legislation
- Change agent with a strong continuous improvement orientation