BSIAPAC Legal and Contracts Manager
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Job Title: APAC Legal and Contracts Manager
Location: Singapore – Hybrid working
Contract: Permanent
About the role:
We’re hiring an APAC Legal and Contracts Manager to join our APAC Legal Department in Singapore. This role is pivotal in supporting the APAC Legal department and partnering with key business stakeholders across the region. You will manage a variety of legal and compliance matters, ensuring efficient contract management, risk mitigation, and legal operations optimisation.
You will have strong contract negotiation, legal research, andadministrative skills, with excellent attention to detail, organisation, andcommunication abilities. This is a great opportunity for a proactive and adaptable individual to develop within a global leader in standards and compliance
Key Responsibilities:
- Contracts & Legal Support: Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts,NDAs, procurement agreements, and other operational legal documents.
- Risk & Compliance Management: Act as the APAC Legal Department'sgatekeeper, triaging matters, ensuring adherence to compliance frameworks,and managing local implementation of global policies.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with sales, finance, IT, regulatory,and business development teams to align legal processes with businessobjectives.
- Operational Excellence: Implement legal tools and streamline processes,manage document repositories, and track key legal and compliance metricsfor informed decision-making.
- Training & Advisory: Deliver legal training sessions and develop toolkits toenhance awareness of legal and compliance requirements across thebusiness.
- Litigation & Dispute Management: Support intellectual property disputes,compliance investigations, and litigation matters in coordination with externalcounsel.
- Administrative & Budget Support: Oversee contract filing, case tracking, andlegal department budgeting to ensure efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
About You:
- Bachelor’s degree or diploma in law or business, or other relevant legalqualification.
- Proven experience in corporate, commercial, and administrative legalfunctions, preferably across APAC.
- Strong contract negotiation and management skills, with the ability to balancebusiness needs and risk mitigation.
- Excellent organisational abilities, with a keen eye for details within processimprovement and legal operations.
- Effective communication and problem-solving skills, able to engage withdiverse teams and stakeholders.
- Intellectual curiosity and openness to continuous self-improvement andprofessional development when opportunities arise
BSI offers a competitive total reward package, an independent and varied job in an international environment, flexible working hours, and ongoing training and development including 14-days annual leave, paid sick leave, bank holidays, health insurance, life insurance, various allowances (including care; dependent on the role), paid maternity leave, paid paternity leave, paid parental leave, childcare leave, paid marriage leave, paid bereavement leave, learning and development opportunities, and a wide range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your lifestyle.
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