Job Title: Associate Manager - Commercial Legal
Country: Malaysia
Location: Kuala Lumpur
Function: Legal & External Affairs
Level: Experienced Professional
Appointment Type: Permanent
PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES
Operational/Professional/Business
(i) Legal
- Counsel other business functions in the Company in all legal matters, to ensure compliance with legislation and provide comprehensive risk assessment when interpreting ambiguous legislation.
- Monitor industry relevant regulatory and litigation developments, provides timely impact analysis into the business and regulatory planning processes, anticipate potential threats to the business
- Draft and counsel on business related agreements delivers effective and easy-to-use contract templates for the Company to ensure that BATM Group’s interests are adequately protected and in accordance with the BATM standards and policy.
- Examples of the agreements include:
Sale and Purchase agreements (Goods/Services/Property)
Agency agreements
Retailer agreements
Entertainment outlet agreements
Laboratory Services agreement
Confidentiality agreements
Contract manufacturing agreements
Licensing agreements
Service level agreements
Transportation agreements
Trade Mark Licensing agreements
Warehousing agreements
Employment contracts
Tenancy
Royalty agreements
Toll Manufacturing agreements
Contract manufacturing agreements
- Provide transactional (negotiation and documentation) counsel to the Company.
(ii) Compliance
(iii) Records Management
(iv) Trade marks
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Management
- Assist the Legal team in ensuring all employees understand legal requirements and standards of BATM Group
- Assist to manage the service levels for the provision of high-quality legal service from external counsels
- Participate in cross functional projects and initiatives to assess, monitor and anticipate potential threats to the business such as competitors' activities, systems/structures failures etc. to support the achievement of business objectives.
Leadership
- Act as an advocate of BATM Standards of Business Conduct internally and externally.
- Take the lead in providing legal counsel to the other functions in the Company to enable them to make responsible and compliant decisions.
- Demonstrate that all the legal work is done fully in accordance with the Legal Guiding Principles of British American Tobacco:
- work from a business perspective
- seek to provide creative solutions to business problems
- share your sense of urgency at all times
- take calculated risks
- operate in accordance with the highest professional standards
- communicate openly and often
Relationship
· Integrate into and maintain key internal relationships across the functions - develop an effective network across all functions to ensure a proper review of company's activities leading to a full compliance of company’s activities with laws and regulations to contribute toward achieving company's objectives.
· Build effective relationships with external stakeholders, such as regulators and enforcement authorities to strive for mutually satisfactory solutions.
· Manage relationships with external legal counsel and seek opportunities to leverage on synergy for effective counselling on regulation
British American Tobacco is one of the world’s leading multinational companies, with brands sold in over 200 markets, made in 44 factories in 42 countries.
We are proud that we are consistently among the top 5 companies on the London Stock Exchange.
Our portfolio includes our world-famous Global Drive Brands – Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall and Rothmans – along with many other leading international brands, such as Vogue, Peter Stuyvesant and State Express 555.
Alongside our traditional tobacco business, we are also developing products that offer consumers potentially less risky alternatives to regular cigarettes. Our Next Generation Products are already leading the way in the Industry of vapour and tobacco heating devices. We continue to develop a solid portfolio of consumer solutions which already include well known global brands like Vype, glo and Voke.
Contractual Legal Entity: British American Tob.Mal. (MY11)
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