Legal Counsel

This position is responsible for providing legal advisory to the business. He/She will safeguard our organization by ensuring that the company strictly follows legal guidelines and provide advice to management about all relevant issues.

• Work with various business functions to provide legal and risk management support on day-to-day business activities.
• Draft, review, advise and negotiate various commercial contracts, terms and conditions, letters, NDA, MOU, forms and any other documents required by the business.
• Manage internal disputes and claims by working with the sales and marketing team, mitigate disputes and prevent law suits by providing practical solutions to the after-sales team.
• Develop, prepare and maintain contract templates, forms, letter for different functions within the company and when necessary in response to the regulatory updates.
• Develop the contract management workflow and processes to ensure approvals are obtained and documents are signed properly.
• Monitor on-going laws and regulations relevant to the company, provide updates on new developments in laws and regulations and its impact to the company’s operations.
• Oversee licensing and monitor regulatory compliance in various business functions, provide compliance training from time to time to all relevant business functions.
• Draft and prepare policies and develop compliance program by localising the compliance policies from headquarters and draft any other policies required in Singapore.
• Develop and implement good compliance practices with checklist and procedures, relating to AML, quality, safety, PDPA, IT, import and export controls, production and manufacturing activities.
• Attend to audit requests and any other ad hoc requests.

• At least 5 years PQE, commonwealth law with background in dispute resolution or in-house commercial experience.
• Previous experience in manufacturing and automotive or EV charging industry, not a must but will be a bonus.
• Strong communication skills and stakeholder management, with ability to communicate with non-native English speaking stakeholders in business language.
• Willingness to learn new regulations, flexible and confident with unknown and constant changes in the new industry.
• Practical and solutions-oriented to solve legal challenges in the new industry.
• Collaborative mindset to work with various business functions in a start-up culture.