Legal Counsel

**Summary**:
The Legal Counsel will provide comprehensive legal support to the company, ensuring compliance with laws and regulations, mitigating legal risks, and safeguarding the company’s interests. The role involves advising on a wide range of legal issues, drafting and reviewing contracts, handling litigation, and working closely with various departments to support business objectives.

**What You'll Champion**:
1. Legal Advice and Counsel:

- Provide expert legal advice to senior management and other departments on a broad range of legal issues, including corporate law, employment law, data protection, and regulatory compliance.
- Stay current with changes in legislation and regulations that affect the company and provide proactive guidance to ensure compliance.

2. Contract Management:

- Draft, review, and negotiate various types of contracts, including vendor agreements, employment contracts, NDAs, licensing agreements, and other legal documents.
- Ensure all contracts and agreements align with the company’s policies and legal standards.

3. Corporate Governance:

- Assist in the preparation and review of board materials and corporate governance documents.
- Ensure the company’s compliance with corporate governance standards and practices.

4. Collaboration and Communication:

- Collaborate with other departments to provide legal support and ensure alignment with business goals.
- Communicate complex legal concepts clearly and concisely to non-legal stakeholders.

**Special Challenges**
possess:

- Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills who is flexible, willing to learn, and to take on new challenges.
- Multitasking ability but able to work independently and under pressure with good time management.
- Strategic thinking and able to provide advice relating to long-term business goals.
- Ability to handle a range of client demands, mixing project work and day to day transactions in a fast-paced environment.

**Who You Are**:

- Law degree and professional legal qualification with 5+ years post-qualification experience working in a law firm or in-house legal department.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, particularly in clearly explaining legal concepts and issues to non-lawyers and providing succinct, accurate and comprehensible legal advice.
- Ability to lead the transaction from start to finish
- Knowledge of the legal areas relevant in airlines will be an added advantage.
- Equal high effectiveness working within teams or individually.
- Exceptional time management and prioritization skills.
- Strong people management skills, working with different cultures, skill levels and the ability to handle a range of client demands, mixing project work and day to day transactions in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work on a number of issues in parallel.
- Sharp commercial mind with the ability to assess and balance contract and reputational risk to current business situations.
- Adaptable and willing to learn, and willing to take on new challenges.
- Exposure to international civil and/or common law contracts.
- Fluent written and spoken English and Bahasa.
- Role-appropriate computer skills (e.g., Microsoft Office suite, Excel) and willingness to learn new systems and platforms.
- Grace under pressure, a sense of humility and a sense of humor.

**Where You'll Go**:
Dispatcher to captain, ramp agent to data analyst, brand executive to CEO - these are some Dare To Dream stories of our Allstars. Based on your performance and contribution in this role, you’ll grow to step up to a higher position or lateral position.

**What You'll Enjoy**:

- ** Physical Wellbeing**:Key medical and insurance benefits, maternity expenses, flexible work arrangement, and health and fitness amenities.
- ** Emotional Wellbeing**:Paid time off, wellness programmes, and childcare amenities.
- ** Financial Wellbeing**: Resources relating to financial, personal skills and career growth programmes.
- ** Allstars Specials**: Free flights, unlimited discounted flights, and exclusive discounts with partners.
- A unique Allstar culture like no other

**Our Hiring Process**:

- Application received
- Interview(s)
- Background check and/or other assessments
- Offer and negotiation

**Get To Know AirAsia**:
AirAsia has been the World's Best Low-Cost Airline for 14 consecutive years with over 800 million guests flown. We continue to champion dreams, serve the underserved and connect the world and Asean like no other so Now Everyone Can Fly.

**We are all different** - one talent to another - that is how we rely on our differences. At AirAsia, you will be treated fairly and given all chances to be your best.We are committed to creating a diverse work environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.