Associate Director, Contracts & Negotiations
Robert Walters
- Kuala Lumpur
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Negotiate, draft, and manage a wide variety of technology services transactions
- Lead development of standard practices, terms, and conditions
- Work with senior management to address and resolve contract interpretations and issues creatively
- Prepare, review and negotiate tender, RFP and RFIs for both private and public sector opportunities.
- Negotiate agreements with customers, vendors and other stakeholders.
- Advise management on the commercial/legal / ethical aspects arising from day-to-day business activities and/or within a specialty area of legal practice.
- Assist in preparation for litigation or arbitration proceedings and queries from regulators.
- Advise on regulatory matters and assist in maintaining a compliance posture of business (including corporate secretarial requirements).
- Lead internal education on various issues such as general contracting and negotiations, contract management and related legal matters.
- Admitted to practice as an advocate or solicitor in Malaysia or in any ASEAN or common law countries.
- Minimum 5+ years post admission experience in practice as an attorney, solicitor or advocate or other relevant and transferrable professional experience, preferably as leader of an in-house department in a company, and/ or law firm experience.
- Regional and cross-border experience preferred.
- Proficiency in Bahasa Malaysia or Bahasa Indonesia or any of the ASEAN local language is preferred.
- Experience working with IT firms.
- Experience working on large and complex RFP/RFI for both private and public sector.