Type: Permanent
Department: Legal & Business Rule Compliance
Level: Manager
Locations: Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam
Role Purposes:
JOB SUMMARY: Manage the whole legal operation in the below areas to support business legal & compliance operation:
- Corporate Licensing (main license & sub license)
- Legal advice to business functions (new & daily business issues & operation, new launches, promotion, advertising, IP….)
- Business contract review & modification (300 mil & up)
- Procedural (legal dispute- conflicts externally: Distributors, Services providers……)
- Manage & consult legal compliance with all applicable regulations
- Complaint handling and crisis control
- Manage, revise, and register ROC, SA 88 with the licensing authority
- Legal updates & training
JOB SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Responsible for ensuring that the operation of the company complies with laws and other prevalent regulatory provisions.
• Set up legal relevant processes to better manage the legal risks and protect the company’s interest (process, policy, web compliance).
• Study and monitor existing and new laws/ regulations, conduct analysis and provide insightful recommendations to assure the company's compliance with applicable laws/regulations (MLM industry and related law regulations).
• Evaluate proposals, action plans and other situations that may have legal impact and determine pertinent course of action as required.
• Conduct legal review necessary to business initiatives (web content, product claim, meeting contents, …)
2. Lead contract management in legal compliance
• Prepares and / or reviews contracts, letters of agreement and other documents to ensure its legal compliance.
• Set up contract management system, ensure the security of company’s transaction and improve the contract approval procedure
• Review the various business supporting materials printed or published by the company and ensure the legal compliance
• Provide legal support for disputes arising from contract implementation.
3. Internal & External audit lead
Internal Audit
• Lead team for internal check of business departments.
• Lead team in train/coach Legal Supervisor for this task
• Get ready valid documents for external audit
External Audit
• Lead team to work with cross function for external audits
• Key in charge of audit by provinces (nationwide)
4. Corporate and MLM Licensing management
• Leading team to get Corporate and MLM licenses nationwide (63 provinces)
• E.com. web licensing and reports
5. Complaints & Crisis management
• Initially advise for normal complaint case
• Support Sale Admin Team in distributor relationship, husband & and wife, inheritance process, …
• Key member of Crisis Management Team for serious case
6. Litigation
• Handle dispute from customer, distributors, vendors, …
• Litigation process at the court
7. Business Conduct Rule
• Legal advise for violation on Rule of Conduct by distributors
• Make sure the enforcement process of team
• Training and communication to distributors on law regulations
• Unauthorized sale control
8. Project engagement
• New project engagement for legal advise
Skills & Knowledge:
- Strong written and oral communication skills in both Vietnamese and English.
- Solid technical legal knowledge and experience.
- Good persuasion and negotiation skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Strong sense of responsibility and highly self-motivated personality.
- Dependable, trustworthy, and able to keep sensitive information confidential.
- High degree of ethics, honesty and conviction.
- Be proactive and action oriented.
- Good ability of risk analyzing, problem solving and solid judgment.
- Direct Selling experience preferred.
Experience:
- Education: Legal
- Bachelor’s degree or above from accredited law school
- 4 to 6 years of legal experience, including minimum of 2 years law firm experience in corporate law with experience working with international clients or in a legal position in a foreign invested company
- Licensed to practice law in Vietnam.
