Senior Legal Counsel

Global Job Catalog:
Job Family Group: Legal & Intellectual Property
Job Family: Generalist Legal Counsel
Job Profile: LEG-GeneralistLegalCounsel-Mgt-4
Management Level: Senior Manager
Hay Grade: 18 / APC Grade: 16
Manage a team of legal professionals and help them to navigate strategically into general and various legal issues. Ensure that AL is compliant with laws and regulations spanning corporate, securities, competition and more. Provide expert guidance and proactive legal strategies.

How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW?

1. Contracts Review & Management a. Draft, negotiate and assist with a range of commercial contracts with customers, agents and suppliers (including equipment, energy and transport providers). b. Review and provide legal advice on responses to customer-driven tender processes, including identification of legal risks in customer’s proposed purchasing terms c. Render legal opinion on company concerns including customer and supplier relations and contacts implementation d. Manage a contracts database and entity policies e. Manage the notarial services for the Company 2. Legal Review & Opinion a. Understand the implementation of various laws, local regulations and authorized standardization bodies. b. Understand codes and mandatory regulations related to AL activities to analyze its implications and provide practical guidelines or internal plan to comply with it. c. Provide legal support to internal stakeholders 3. Case Management a. Handle cases (initiate, monitor, complete) for the company and represent the company in judicial, quasi judicial and administrative hearings b. Provide legal support in contractual disputes to generate the best possible commercial outcome, including management of external lawyers briefed in litigation 4. Management of Ethics Concerns a. Act as entity's Ethics Officer b. Promote and remind all compliance aspects and corporate legal mechanism in daily routine activities among employees. c. Working together to achieve highest level of compliance by taking a leadership role in daily duties. d. Provide and convey training material of laws and any legal aspect of AL activities in accordance with the requirements of government regulations and Air Liquide policies. 5. Manage IRC and Compliance with other Rules and Regulations a. Make sure that all AL activities in the country comply with all government regulations and Air Liquide policies. b. Liaise with AL representatives in groups and/or organizations for consulting during the process to develop laws, mandatory regulations, codes or standards. c. Lead for coordination and communication process (interface) between Air Liquide and the regulatory authorities. d. Defines the IRC Program that have compliance aspects in general and related with corporate legal matters. e. Make sure that suspected offense or violation of laws or mandatory regulations is promptly reported to the Managing Director of subsidiary. f. Establish a yearly plan for Legal Site Audit to ensure that operations are compliant with applicable laws, mandatory regulations, codes and standards. g. Monitor compliance improvement process and make necessary corrections/adjustments. h. Reasonable knowledges on the codes and standards which are mandated by the laws and mandatory regulations. 6. Board Matters a. Ensure corporate compliance and governance, responsible for board meetings, drafting and review of resolutions (Shareholders, Commisioners and Directors), when required and in co-ordination with external service providers. b. Act as the Company's Corporate Secretary 7. Conduct Trainings a. Facilitate legal trainings

Are you a MATCH?

Approximately 12 years of Post Qualification Experience in the Legal Department of a multinational company or a mix of law firm and in-house experience; in manufacturing or chemicals industry a plus.

Experience in international taxation and export financing methods.

About Air Liquide

A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in 78 countries with approximately 64,500 employees and serves more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the company’s activities since its creation in 1902.

Our Differences make our Performance

At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.