Legal Executive
Job Description
Company: Nestlé Products Sdn Bhd
Full-time
Bachelor’s Degree
3-5 years of experience
Position Summary
Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. A Nestlé career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. With Nestlé, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.
We are looking for a Legal Executive to provide a strong foundation on which the Legal & Compliance team can perform and support the business. This includes ensuring the optimum organisation of the Legal & Compliance function, including efficient filing structure and systems, research resources, operational support and legal support and advice as required by Director Legal & Compliance.
A day in the life of Legal Executive…
- Support Legal & Compliance function, and lead and manage all corporate secretarial and administrative matters.
- Support Legal for tax and finance related transactions, including shared service and intra company agreements, bank guarantees, letters of demands
- Perform legal research and support, and drive projects to optimise efficiencies in Legal & Compliance operations.
- Managing all relevant databases to ensure optimum and compliant use by Nestle (Filing, Sharepoint, Government Licensing and Corporate Pass system, other Nestle Legal online systems).
- Organisational work for the department as required
- Legal and compliance support to the business as designated by Director Legal & Compliance, including contract review and negotiations, providing training as appropriate.
What Will Make You Successful
- Relevant law related degree from a recognized and reputable institution, with strong Legal background and good knowledge of corporate secretarial work.
- Getting called to the bar in an advanced common law jurisdiction similar to SIngapore (English bar etc) is an advantage
- Strong knowledge of Singapore law and corporate
- Willing to handle a wide variety of work, from managing databases, contract management, some administration and filing, corporate secretarial, and legal advice, research and drafting
- Preferably at least 3-5 years of relevant working experience in a reputable corporation or law firm, subject to exceptions based on quality of candidates