APAC Paralegal and Contracts Manager

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Sector: Legal
Role: Associate
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

Job Title: APAC Paralegal and Contracts Manager
Location: Singapore - hybrid
Type: Full time, permanent

About the role:
BSI is seeking a dynamic Contracts Manager to join our APAC Legal Department in Singapore. This role is pivotal in supporting the APAC Legal Director and partnering with key business stakeholders across the region. You will manage a variety of legal and compliance matters, ensuring efficient contract management, risk mitigation, and legal operations optimisation.

The ideal candidate will have strong contract negotiation, legal research, and administrative skills, with excellent attention to detail, organisation, and communication abilities. This is a great opportunity for a proactive and adaptable individual to develop within a global leader in standards and compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Contracts & Legal Support: Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts, NDAs, procurement agreements, and other operational legal documents.
• Risk & Compliance Management: Act as the APAC Legal Department's gatekeeper, triaging matters, ensuring adherence to compliance frameworks, and managing local implementation of global policies.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with sales, finance, IT, regulatory, and business development teams to align legal processes with business objectives.
• Operational Excellence: Implement legal tools and streamline processes, manage document repositories, and track key legal and compliance metrics for informed decision-making.
• Training & Advisory: Deliver legal training sessions and develop toolkits to enhance awareness of legal and compliance requirements across the business.
• Litigation & Dispute Management: Support intellectual property disputes, compliance investigations, and litigation matters in coordination with external counsel.
• Administrative & Budget Support: Oversee contract filing, case tracking, and legal department budgeting to ensure efficiency and cost-effectiveness.

To be successful in the role, you will have:

• Bachelor's degree or other relevant legal qualification.
• Proven experience in corporate, commercial, and administrative legal functions, preferably within APAC.
• Strong contract negotiation and management skills, with the ability to balance business needs and risk mitigation.
• Excellent organisational abilities, with a keen eye for details within process improvement and legal operations.
• Effective communication and problem-solving skills, able to engage with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Intellectual curiosity and openness to continuous self-improvement and professional development when opportunities arise.
• Experience using Power BI would be advantageous.

BSI offers a competitive total reward package, an independent and varied job in an international environment, flexible working hours, and ongoing training and development.

*Please note: BSI are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this vacancy.

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If you want to contribute to this inspiring challenge, bring your open and enthusiastic mindset to our dynamic team, apply now and become part of the BSI family!

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