Legal Counsel (Contract)
21 May 2026Job Description:
Responsibilities:
1. Contractual Support for Tender, Offers, Variations & Extensions
- Recommend contractual structures that enhance competitiveness while respecting applicable regulations and internal governance
- Draft, revise, and negotiate contractual documents with customers, partners, and subcontractors
- Contribute to internal risk reviews, financial exposure assessments, and mitigation plans
- Ability to identify opportunities to protect or improve the project's financial performance
- Support the capture and preparation of variations, extensions, new phases or related offers connected to existing program
- Prepare and present contractual sections of internal approval documentation, including clear recommendations to management
2. Contract Management Throughout Project Execution
- Establish, manage, and continuously update the contractual baseline from contract signature to project closure
- Ensure full contractual awareness across the project team, enabling correct application of obligations, rights, deadlines, and deliverables
- Anticipate deviations and manage them proactively through contractual notices, waivers, amendments, claims, clarification requests, and other contractual instruments
3. Governance, Leadership & Coordination
- Act as the reference point for all contractual matters within the project
- Provide strategic and operational contractual advice to internal stakeholders
- Participate in departmental initiatives such as improving templates, tools, and best practices, contributing expertise linked to complex project execution
4. Compliance Activities
- Support relevant compliance processes for the tenders and projects (e.g. third‑party screenings) in coordination with the Compliance Officer (Antitrust, Anticorruption, Personal Data Protection (incl. GDPR), Trade compliance & Duty of vigilance), in particular:
- Escalate any potential non‑compliance issues where required.
5. Transversal Activities
- Provide country legal intelligence and knowledge to the relevant global, regional, or corporate stakeholders
- Interface with external counsels for analysis and management of specific legal issues in the framework of complex contractual and/or legal arrangements or claim/litigation procedures in the Region on a need-basis,
- Participate in a cross-functional working group for Legal, Contract and Compliance Department (contract management, IP, standard contracts, insurance…)
Requirements
- Academic background in Law, Contract Management, Business, or related field, equivalent to a Master’s degree‑level qualification (EU/UK/SG/US or other comparable higher‑education systems) including a Specialization in Law,
- 10+ years of demonstrated experience as an in-house legal counsel working in an international context and as part of the legal department of a multinational company,
- Endowed with analytical and synthesis skills, you assess situations accurately and can easily propose pragmatic solutions,
- Understand the stakes associated with a major international Group’s compliance program,
- Master the techniques related to third-party review (third-party screening) and are able to conduct compliance analyses
- 5 days week, MNC near One-North MRT
- Contract from Jun - Oct 2026 with benefits
All Successful candidates can expect a very competitive remuneration package and a comprehensive range of benefits.
Kindly email your resume in a detailed Word/pdf format to ashley@peopleprofilers.com
We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified
People Profilers Pte Ltd
Tel: 6950 9753
EA Registration Number: R1111375
EA licence number 02C4944
EA Personnel: Lee Hui En Ashley
Salary:
S$ 8,000.00
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S$ 9,000.00
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