Legal Manager (New)

Job Responsibilities

Adecco’s client is looking for an accomplished and commercially minded Legal Manager to be responsible for managing all legal affairs of the Company. The Legal Manager will be required to provide legal consultation, advice, and support, alongside identifying, containing, and managing legal exposure, liabilities, and risk

The main job responsibilities will be but not limited to:

Policies and procedures and standardized documentation

• Propose to develop draft policies, procedures, and guiding documents for implementation in legality
• Manage and control the implementation of legal regulations, propose the promulgation of internal regulations, and manage the internal document management system
• Control and propose assessment of the impact of legal documents and monitor the implementation of recommendations.
• Keep up to date on the policies, and regulations and train the team

Litigation and Arbitration

• Prepares, manages, and controls legal cases filed by, and against the Company and drafts litigation memos and legal notices in both Vietnamese & English
• Provides legal opinion about all existing and potential liabilities related to the Company’s Court cases/disputes. Reviews, drafts, and amends settlement agreements related to Disputes and other agreements/contracts
• Analyses the risks and liabilities of Court cases & disputes for internal use, maintaining reference files, conducting research, collecting, and analyzing evidence for the hearings

Managing external law firms

• Build a close relationship with the external law firms
• Review, evaluate and select the quality law firms
• Set the goals and appraise their performance

Daily support on legal advice to other teams within the company

Interaction with State Offices/ Departments

• On behalf of the Company to communicate with related state offices/ departments
• Prepares all required documents, application forms, etc as requests from state offices/ departments

Team management and people development

Other tasks assigned by the CEO

Experience requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Law or relevant major
• Having a Lawyer Practicing Certificate is an advantage
• At least 10 - 15 years of working experience in law firms or as an internal legal with at least 3 years of managerial role
• Must demonstrate a high level of integrity, compliance, and excellent judgment.
• Be articulate with a strong intellectual capacity, and high personal standards of excellence
• Good problem solving and communication skills
• Proficient in English

Please click the APPLY button or contact Ms. Quynh Chu (+84 377 702 104) at quynh.chu@adecco.com for further discussion.

Education requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Law or relevant major
• Must have a Lawyer Practicing Certificate

Contact Person

•   Linh Vu
•  Adecco