Senior Legal Counsel

Schneider Electric's purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all.

We call this Life is On.

Our mission is to be your technology partner for Sustainability and Efficiency.

We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, endpoint to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries.
We are the most local of global companies.

We are advocates of open standards and partnership ecosystems that are passionate about our shared Meaningful Purpose, Inclusive and Empowered values.

The role :
We are recruiting a Senior Legal Counsel, to join our Business Legal Team to provide strategic legal support across the cluster markets of Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan (SMBT) partnering closely with business leaders and functional teams to ensure compliant, commercially sound, and risk balanced decision making.

This role requires strong cross jurisdictional advisory experience and the ability to operate autonomously.

What will you do?



* Prepare, review and support negotiations of a number of contracts including commercial, distribution, software, procurement, construction, oil & gas and industry standard contracts.


* Lead or support cluster initiatives, policy rollouts & template localisation.


* Provide claims support and overseeing litigations.


* Help to ensure compliance with applicable laws and Group policies including driving the competition law program.


* Partner with senior leaders across commercial, HR, finance, procurement, operations, and corporate functions.


* Support corporate governance & entity management.


* Provide training to the business.


* Other general legal support as reasonably required by Legal Management to service the SMBT operations.

What will help you to be successful?


* A fully qualified lawyer with a Bachelor's degree in Law and at least 6 years' relevant PQE.


* Worked in an international company and has a proven track record operating in an inhouse environment.


* Excellent negotiation, drafting, and communication skills.


* Experience managing multi-jurisdictional regulatory issues.


* Work proactively and closely with the business stakeholders, to identify and analyse critical commercial and legal issues.


* Commercially minded, highly organized, and able to work effectively in teams.


* Fluent in English (written and verbal) & preferably with Traditional Mandarin (to support Taiwan operations).


* Great technological skills.

What do we offer?


* Opportunity to influence strategic business decisions through legal expertise.


* Dynamic work environment handling diverse and challenging legal matters.


* Professional growth through exposure to complex business transactions.


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