Regional Counsel, APAC Legal Operations

Position Overview:

We are seeking a resourceful lawyer to drive execution of key Legal & Compliance initiatives across Asia Pacific, focusing on legal operations, compliance programme management, corporate governance and regional strategic projects.

The role will work closely with the General Counsel and the APAC Legal & Compliance Team to translate regional priorities into effective implementation across the region. It will act as a central coordination point for initiatives that span multiple countries or legal clusters, helping improve consistency, efficiency, governance and legal risk management across APAC.

Key Responsibilities:

Compliance and Governance Initiatives Execution

• Support design and implementation of regional compliance initiatives including roll-out of compliance policies, procedures and communications.
• Coordinate compliance training and awareness programmes.
• Support legal and compliance reviews and risk assessments and investigations as required.
• Coordinate and support various global reporting activities.
• Maintain and periodically review delegation of authority frameworks, powers of attorney and signature authorities from a Legal & Compliance perspective.
• Coordinate periodic legal entity health checks and remediation activities in collaboration with the APAC Paralegal.

Legal Advisory Support

• Provide legal advice on selected commercial matters, draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements where regional support is required.
• Coordinate advice across multiple APAC jurisdictions where a consistent regional approach is required.
• Manage external legal counsel on relevant regional projects and specialist matters.
• Lead or coordinate the legal workstreams of selected regional and cross-border projects.
• Support legal entity re-organisations.
• Support AI and other technology implementation projects from a legal and compliance perspective.

Legal Department Operations

• Coordinate the development and maintenance of legal templates, playbooks, guidance notes and knowledge-management resources.
• Coordinate the APAC legal budget, spend monitoring and reporting, and manage external counsel engagements.
• Drive adoption and continuous improvement of legal technology and contract lifecycle management tools.
• Develop and maintain legal department KPIs, dashboards, matter and contract reporting, and support regional workload, resource visibility and departmental operational requirements.

Key Skills & Qualifications:

• 6–8 years of relevant legal experience, ideally with a combination of private practice and in-house experience in a multinational environment (experience in manufacturing and/or distribution is a plus).
• Prior experience in a reputable law firm would be a plus.
• Ability to work independently, prioritise between multiple tasks and demands, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
• Exercise sound judgment and appropriately escalate high-risk or complex matters to the General Counsel, APAC.
• Native or business-level fluency in English is mandatory.

Key Personal Attributes:

• Pragmatic, hands-on and solutions-oriented
• Strong attention to detail and well organized
• Confident, calm and able to operate independently
• Effective communicator with strong stakeholder management skills
• Collaborative and team-oriented across geographies
• Down-to-earth and authentic