South Asia Legal Counsel

Overview

Lesaffre presence in Asia Pacific has been established for decades. With Asia Pacific regional headquarter based in Singapore, we aim to serve our customers in this region with better engagement and service. Proximity to our customers is one of our core missions. This ensures Lesaffre can collaborate with local bakers to create regional specialties and anticipate trends.

We seek highly dynamic and enthusiastic individuals to explore the opportunity to be part of Lesaffre. The South Asia Legal Counsel is responsible as the primary in-house legal counsel for the Lesaffre Group in South Asia Countries (Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand and Philippines) providing comprehensive legal support and guidance to ensure compliance and mitigate legal risks across all business operations.

Responsibilities

• Compliance with local governmental HSE regulations, Lesaffre fundamental principles and the safety policy.
• Participate in entity safety activities and lead by example (rules application, PPE wearing, safety visits, accident analysis, safety committees).
• Participate in risk assessment of own job area.
• Follow the safety action plan of own perimeter.
• Establish safety rules in your perimeter, communicate them, and ensure their understanding and application by your team.
• Start all meetings (eight persons minimum) with a safety contact.
• Encourage safe acts and discourage unsafe acts.
• Report unsafe conditions / acts and near misses to the managers.
• Report within 12 hours all recordable accidents to the next level of management.
• Report monthly all recordable accidents and first aid incidents in your perimeter.
• Participate in the target-setting process for safety KPIs.
• Be part of the recognition & sanction program.
• Follow and comply with all other health and safety standards, procedures, processes and initiatives set by the company.
• Contracts

Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, including sales agreements, distribution agreements, supply agreements, service contracts, non-disclosure agreements, and other business agreements

Taking the role of Board secretary, when needed, of the different joint-ventures entities in Indonesia and Vietnam, organize, participate and prepare minutes for all the Board / General meetings and other corporate documentation

Monitoring different disputes and assisting the trade and finance teams in major debt collection procedures with the support of an external law firm

Coordinating with external service provider the legal watch and update on laws, regulations, and precedents

Assessing the legal training needs of employees and organizing relevant training processes

Qualifications

Additional Information

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