Job Description
Our client is a leading global professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, technology and operations for clients across all industries. This is an exciting regional in house opportunity for a senior commercial lawyer to join an agile, innovative and dynamic legal team based in Singapore to support the business and its clients in S.E. Asia. You will be a collaborative team player that is agile and keen to keep pace with legal and business developments affecting the company and its clients.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee, counsel, guide, train and support junior contracting professionals.
- Stay abreast of contracting developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company’s contracting practices
- Educate company executives in regard to contracting and risk management issues
- Represent the company’s interests and interface directly with client negotiating teams
- Strategize with company executives prior to client negotiations
- Structure client transactions to be most advantageous from a contracting and business perspective
- Advise, and consult company executives based on accurate interpretation of contract documents and the facts of a business opportunity
- Develop internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge on various contracting and business issues
- Develop subject matter expertise in one of more areas that benefit the Legal Group and the business
- Support, promote and implement Legal Group initiatives
- Some travel may be required
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in law required; advanced degree in law, business or contract management preferred.
- Minimum of 8 years PQE including experience in an appropriate fast-paced corporate environment. Experience in negotiating technology or outsourcing agreements, including consulting, systems integration, software licensing, cloud, blockchain, robotics process or business process outsourcing agreements is preferred.
- Proven ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions
- Experience negotiating intellectual property issues
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
If you think you meet the above requirements and would like to apply please send:
- your CV;
- transcripts; and
- a short cover email to jessica.deery@horizon-recruit.com for us to determine your suitability for this role.
If you’d like to arrange a confidential discussion prior to applying please call our London office on +44 203 745 2513, our Singapore office on +65 6808 6635 or Hong Kong office on +852 3978 1369.
Please share this opportunity with any colleagues that you think would be interested.
Singapore EA Licence No. 12S6213