Executive recruitment company Monroe Consulting Group Philippines is recruiting on behalf of a leading last-mile technology logistics company in the country.
Company wishes to bring on board a senior Legal Counsel to lead and develop its award-winning Philippines legal team and provide strategic commercial and legal advice to country and group management.
To be successful, the candidate should be a commercially savvy and self-motivated individual, who can operate independently in a fast-paced work environment and manage and drive 4 other team members to deliver high quality legal deliverables. He or she will report to the Group General Counsel based in Singapore and work closely with Filipino senior leadership. Pro-activeness, 'can-do' attitude and strong stakeholder communication and management skills are essential to the role's success.
Job Descriptions
- Candidate's primary role includes:
- Function head responsible for managing legal and regulatory matters in Philippines.
- Lead and develop legal team to deliver high quality legal services in a fast-paced environment and ensuring that legal advice is commercially-savvy and legally defensible.
- Designing and implementing country-level legal processes, policies and training relating to contract process compliance and mitigation of legal and regulatory risks.
- Advising on, negotiating and preparing commercial contracts, supplier contracts and tender bid response.
- Handle corporate secretarial matters and manage the procurement and renewal of all necessary business, corporate and other licences and permits.
- Manage HR-related disputes, disputes with shippers and commercial litigation.
- Handle inquiries and investigations by various government agencies.
- Handle administration of and manage legal department in a manner consistent with country-level and group-level policies.
- Candidate reports to Group General Counsel but will be accountable to and be tasked by company's Country Head.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Laws in Philippines laws from a leading university.
- 10 years or more experience from a legal department of a company and reputable law firm.
- Philippines Bar admission.
- Having these attributes would give the candidate an advantage:
- Experience working in the logistics or e-commerce industry or any other reputable startup.
- Knowledge about IT systems, cloud hosting and SaaS.
- Literacy in financial statements and metrics.
