Position Summary

1. Provide an optimum solution through a contract review and legal counsel.
Minimize the company's legal risks by responding to major disputes.

Role and Responsibilities

The Legal Management Team is an individual contributor responsible for the end-to-end management of the Company's legal and compliance function.

The Legal Management manager will assist the Head of Compliance in handling all legal and compliance matters. The role is not only to be an individual contributor but also a leader role of individual legal counsels.

The Legal Management manager would have to coordinate with the team of legal counsels and provide relevant and commercial legal advice to stakeholders and employees on legal matters affecting its operations. The key to success is the ability to lead and navigate various competing issues impacting the business so to ensure that the business obtains the most relevant and commercially astute advice available.

The role and responsibilities can be divided into three main categories:

Commercial related management:

• Advice to the business on a broad range of laws, including general corporate and commercial, employment, company secretary, competition, intellectual property, privacy, anti-corruption, and consumer protection;
• Draft, review, negotiate agreements including all relevant trade terms such as Sales/Distribution Agreements, Procurement Agreements, Sponsorship Agreements, Consulting Agreements, License Agreements, etc.;
• Review marketing materials and advertisements (online, offline, etc.);
• Manage any ad hoc projects being instructed by the business units, such as fraud investigation, research on legal issues and coordinating with relevant business units on new business opportunities and models, etc.; and
• Attending internal and external meetings as required by the business counterpart.

Litigation Management:

• Conducting pre-litigation process: interview with relevant stakeholders to collect and analyze data and other evidence;
• Performing legal research on the disputed issues;

• Inform the management of the background and issues regarding the dispute and advise the suitable course of action;
• Coordinating, leading, managing, monitoring with external counsels for the litigation cases; and
• Attending court procedures if required.

Compliance Management:

• Management of the Company's compliance program including:
  • general administration of compliance program;
  • conduct of employee compliance training;
  • preparation and circulation of relevant compliance messaging and educational material;
  • manage entry and maintenance of compliance program records; and
  • liaise with RHQ and HQ in connection with regional or global compliance requirements.
• Update and implement business policies to ensure compliance with Thai laws.
• Monitoring of legal developments and trends.

Skills and Qualifications

Qualification and experience:

• Law Degree, Master Degree preferred
• Lawyer license required
• At least 5 years PQE.
• Experience in a law firm preferred
• Strong background on laws related to a trading company.
• Familiarity with general corporate and commercial laws, employment, competition, intellectual property, privacy, litigation, anti-corruption, and consumer protection.

Traits:

• Excellent logical and analytical mind.
• Independent at work with minimal supervision while being able to work collaboratively at all levels and across functions.
• Natural leader and people management skills.
• Highly motivated.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
• Resourceful, ability to adjust to changing requirements, schedules, and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to provide concise advice regarding legal matters.
• Possess commercial acumen and thinking.
• Ability to influence stakeholders across many levels.