Manager, Legal & Compliance

Act as the key functional representative and lead the Legal & Compliance team for Thailand, Myanmar, and Laos.

Legal

* Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of national and multinational customer and supplier contracts, including transport, customs, warehousing, and logistics contracts, lease agreements, general direct and indirect purchasing contracts, and other operating agreements.

* Providing strategic advice on legal, general corporate, regulatory, administrative, risk management, and compliance matters to management and personnel.

* Assisting in developing, implementing, training, and monitoring relevant working procedures.

* Overseeing day-to-day responsibilities for advising on contractual issues, claims, and disputes to minimize exposure.

* Where necessary, engaging and managing external counsel for general legal, regulatory, and administrative matters and court proceedings in the country.

* Handling company secretarial and corporate registration matters.

* Monitoring relevant legislative procedures at country level.

* Acting as a primary contact point for the General Counsel Asia Pacific and Global Contract Management team (CoE).

Compliance

* Assisting in the development of a compliance management system, policies, procedures, and instruments.

* Supporting communication, implementation, and remediation to adjust and optimize compliance-relevant processes.

* Assisting in collecting and ensuring adequate compliance reporting.

* Providing advice on compliance-related matters.

* Assisting Cluster CEO with risk assessments according to the risk assessment process.

* Addressing local customer compliance requests.

* Promoting the whistleblower hotline and encouraging potential whistleblowers.

* Administering cases of local importance and steering investigations by external parties or DB Security, with coordination and consultation with local P&O functions.

* Informing local management and Regional Compliance Management about identified weaknesses and countermeasures.

* At least 8-10 years of post-qualification experience, in private practice and/or as in-house counsel, handling maritime/litigation or corporate/commercial matters.

* A good university degree in law and preferably an Attorney at Law License.

* Prior work experience with an international law firm and/or an MNC with strong corporate presence in Thailand will be an advantage.

* Good knowledge on transport law, standard terms and international conventions.

* Experience in the transportation/logistics industry will be an advantage.

* Knowledge in claim and insurance will be an advantage.

* Able to travel upcountry with own transportation.

* Good knowledge in local and foreign Anti-Trust Law, Anti-Corruption, Code of Conduct and Integrity will be advantageous.

* Self-initiative and ability to work under pressure with a high level of commitment

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