Legal Counsel

3 months ago

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia British American Tobacco Full time

**BAT is evolving at pace into a global multi-category business. With products like VELO, VUSE and GLO we are on a mission to decrease the health impact of our industry**
**To achieve our ambition, we are looking for colleagues who are ready to Be The Change. Come, join us on this journey**

**British American Tobacco** **Malaysia has an exciting opportunity for a Legal Counsel Commercial in Sunway Geo**

The focus of the role is to provide proactive and business relevant legal counselling of a high professional standard to the Operations function on all aspects of procurement arrangements, including development, services, manufacturing and supply agreements.

**Your key responsibilities will include**:
**Business**
- Member of New Categories Commercial Legal team, reporting into a Senior Counsel.
- Providing strategic advice and commercial counselling to the relevant business partners to support the operation of key contractual arrangements in place, while effectively managing relevant risks, with a focus on the following:

- Third party procurement related contracts to support the New Categories business (supply, manufacturing, services agreements, NDAs);
- Intragroup supply chain contracts to support the New Categories business initiatives; and Efficiency initiatives.
- Support the overall contract management system and processes including drafting, negotiating, approving and executing contracts pursuant to the company's contract management policy and Governance policies; as well as training the business and improving ways of working.
- Identifying and mitigating commercial and legal risk in proposed commercial arrangements (including risks relating to intellectual property, competition, and compliance risks).
- Advising on the escalation and resolution of contractual disputes, and about contract termination.
- Ensuring proper corporate governance in place for internal compliance.
- Advising on the presentation of proposed transactional matters for consideration and approval by the appropriate leadership team, board or committee.
- Instructing and managing external legal counsel in relation to complex, high profile and/or strategically important transactions and other advice, reviewing output, and controlling and approving spend.
- Ensuring good information flows between business contacts, Legal, and other business partners about business initiatives to optimise commercial opportunities and manage risks.
- Supporting other team members within Ops & Commercial Legal and DBS KL as and when required.
- Proactively support to drive corporate strategies in Legal driven areas as a member of the Business, Integrity and Compliance Legal team.

**People**
- Supervise, provide guidance, training and support to direct reports
- Identify areas of development for direct reports, defined and implement together with the direct reports a development plan.
- Demonstrating excellence in own work by improving technical and managerial skills as identified and agreed in personal development plan.
- Proactively seeking to identify opportunities to create legal awareness and working to improve the Company's position.
- Demonstrating personal and professional experience by:

- sharing best practices and knowledge efficiently;
- providing excellent guidance, training and support to direct reports and other team members;
- outstanding management of significant legal risks to the business;
- concentrating at being lawyers at the heart of the business, and
- establishing strong links with the Global Legal community and contributing to the success of the Legal function

**What are we looking for?**

**Experience Required**
- Experience and expertise in commercial law and practice, with a proven track record of advising on complex and high-value global frameworks and cross-border transactions and other operations contractual arrangements.
- Experience and expertise (or at least strong willingness) in developing and training direct reports.

**Technical / Functional / Leadership Skills Required**
- Excellent legal drafting skills with an ability to identify and advise on compliance risk and cross-border issues.
- Strong negotiation and project management skills, and ability to plan, anticipate and manage priorities to optimise output and enhance the effectiveness of commercial solutions throughout the contract lifecycle.
- Business acumen in order to advise the business on how to deliver results whilst managing legal risk.
- Hands-on and flexible attitude, sound commercial judgement, and ability to work under pressure and to cope with unexpected and varied demands.
- Good awareness of legal issues relating to intellectual property, competition, employment, tax and compliance (e.g. sanctions, anti-bribery) to enable potential issues to be identified at an early stage of a transaction or initiative, and an understanding of legal duty of care issues in the context of product liability.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

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