The Senior Legal Counsel of Heineken Vietnam shall provide efficient and high-quality legal services to the Company. The role will act as a trusted legal business partner for the sales and marketing team (“Commerce”), providing broad legal advice and support for commercial operations to help the Company avoid and manage legal risks and ensure compliance with Heineken’s Code of Business Conduct, policies, and applicable laws and regulations.
Key responsibilities
- Strategic Business Partnership: Serve as the primary legal business partner for Commerce, overseeing legal issues related to its operations and engaging senior management to align legal strategies with business objectives.
- Ethics and Compliance Leadership: Drive an ethical and compliant culture, including adherence to anti-trust, anti-corruption, and data privacy laws, group policies, regulations, and industry codes of ethics.
- Commercial Legal Strategy and Support: Advise on product claims, product liability, competitor challenges and defenses, and unfair or non-compliant competitor practices.
- Pragmatic Legal Solutions: Provide commercially sound legal advice and support with drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts.
- Value-Driven Legal Services: Deliver high-quality, solution-oriented, and cost-effective legal services that support Company objectives.
- Proactive Risk Management: Identify, evaluate, and advise stakeholders on potential legal risks and opportunities.
- Compliance and Collaboration: Support compliance with the Heineken Group’s Code of Business Conduct and policies while fostering teamwork across departments.
- Legal Intelligence and Training: Monitor legal and regulatory changes, communicate them to stakeholders, and provide training to business and support functions.
- Team Leadership and Development: Manage and mentor at least one Legal team member, driving accountability, ownership, and high-quality support while optimizing costs.
- Ad-hoc Projects: Undertake other tasks or projects assigned by the Head of Legal or Regional Legal Head.
Requirements
- Law degree or LLM in commerce or economic law.
- Lawyer qualification and more than 10 years of legal experience, preferably including substantial in-house counsel experience with a multinational FMCG corporation or a combination of private practice and in-house counsel experience.
- Previous experience in a multinational company or highly complex organization, preferably in Commercial and/or Supply Chain and Production domains.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management capabilities, with a high level of collaboration and cross-cultural influence.
- In-depth knowledge of commercial, corporate, investment, anti-bribery, civil, data privacy, alcohol, advertising, and other relevant laws and regulations.
- Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and risk assessment capabilities, with good judgment and commitment to delivering results.
- Ability to energize and inspire others to contribute to critical commercial objectives.