Junior Counsel

Responsibilities:

• This role supports the Legal & Privacy Head’s daily functions and is a strong ambassador to the trusted ‘gate-keeper’ objectives across sales, marketing, operations, purchasing and other business stakeholders. 
• The activities include handling the day-to-day legal team administration linked to business needs.
• Co-ordinate the roll-out of legal / compliance training across all regional hub offices with key focus across commercial, purchasing, and regulatory forms related to the distribution of consumer goods globally in Chinese and English. 
• Knowledge of the travel retail distribution channel an advantage.
• Multi-task and be organised across various delegations, ‘ad-hoc’ administrative tasks and assignments.
• Take part in developing internal control initiatives whilst anticipating legal and reputational risks, actively listening, reviewing, and drafting forms, as required.
• Develop and roll-out contract life cycle processes with company stakeholders to finalise forms externally. 
• Constructively challenging the status-quo and breaking barriers for effective ‘ways-of-working’.
• Facilitate various projects through the co-ordination, drafting forms and checking thoroughly the processes for compliance.
• Have attention to detail with a proven ability to optimise limited business resources, work collaboratively with different cultures and adapt to agile ways-of-working.

Requirements:

• 2 to 4 years of work experience with relevant university qualifications in Law. 
• Additional qualifications in business, political science, tax, compliance, languages and communications, will be highly regarded.
• Mandarin Chinese (written + spoken, preferably) to assist in China Hub local form review and staff training.
• Detail-oriented, self-starter and comfortable working independently (in a small team setting) with relevant private practice training and in-house work experience, having proven stakeholder management with a ‘can-do’ mindset.
• Strong awareness and interest in the business of luxury and FMCG brands. Has an entrepreneurial mindset with curiosity across all aspects of B-2-B retail and the end-consumer journeys. Knowledge of the digital marketing and social platform space (i.e., AliPay, Douyin, WeChat, Weibo, Ctrip, etc.) is an advantage.
• Displaying strong awareness over legal issues and curiosity on global consumer trends in the Asia-Pacific region (i.e., digital retail, data-privacy protections, competition, bribery/corruption, customs/trade, etc.).
• Direct mentorship opportunities from daily business interactions across the organisation as well as continuous professional development offered on various topics (i.e., business, soft-skills, etc.)