Overview of Position:

• As a Legal Manager, your most important role is leading and motivating a team of staff to ensure they’re giving the best legal advice and documentation support for other departments and the Boad of Directors as possible.
• You’ll also be expected to know company’s projects, project procedures and project development policy, to research guideline and policy of government on project development, and to be able to work with partners.

• This position will also manage and ensure regulations, procedures and legal standards of enterprise to be fully and correctly implemented by subsidiary companies; and ensure the project deployment steps to be efficiently carried out.

Job Scope

• Helping to build good government relations.
• Consulting legal issues to BOD.
• Setting up the apartment sale and purchase processes with customers.
• Accomplishing legal human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, and disciplining employees; establishing work objectives; planning, supervising, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing benifit actions; complying policies and procedures.
• Determining legal consultancy supported requirements of BOD and other departments; researching projects status on the market; analyzing information of projects.
• Improving the quality of legal consultancy and document drafting by (i) establishing form, processes; (ii) studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes; (iii) establishing and discussing new laws and guideline of government; and (iv) analyzing results and implementing changes.
• Developing legal operation by (i) training courses; (ii) closely contacting with law firms; and (iii) populating form, processes and provisions of law to staffs of departments.
• Seeking and solving customers' complicated problems which may be been passed from customer service departments.
• Guiding staffs to keep documents of project and companies.
• Analyzing project data to determine the way of deploying projects and consult for Boad of Directors.
• Writing reports the legal schedule of projects.
• Establishing procedures to coordinate with project management unit.
• Meeting with other managers to discuss possible improvements to the operations of legal department.
• Training legal staff and other department staff to ensure companies operating in accordance with provisions of law.
• Leading or supervising a team of legal staff.
• Coordinating with other departments to plan and implement customer related programs.
• Drafting contract, agreement and other document to support other departments.

Skill Requirement

• Law research skills: legal manager has to seek and research new laws and consult for BOD in time. The change of law is effecting seriously to project development and a basis of BOD’ decisions on business strategy and investment, you consult in time so BOD can make a good decision. You should have an good analyzing and representative skill whether consulting by email or discussing in direction.
• Leadership Skills: legal manager will need to motivate the team, work with them to make sure they abide by all company policies and procedures.
• Patience: legal manager might have to deal with arising issues during working with government authorities. The patience will help you stay polite, clever in communication with competent persons in case of delaying license, being required to supplement documents more time or receiving other requirements.
• Carefulness and attention: You need to make sure that you do the work with high quality and exactly.
• Problem-Solving Skills: You will have to solve the issues, which are arising at any time, of other departments, companies and project. Problem-Solving Skills is important and will help your job.
• Ability to work both independently and as a team member under high pressure.
• Lawyer degree or master of law degree is a requirement.
• English language standard equivalent to IELTS 5.5 is preferred.

Experience Requirement

• At least 4 years experiences in legal related field.
• Experience in legal consultancy position in real estate business is the priority.
• Experience with law firm or real estate company experience is an added advantage.

• For more information please contact: Susan Hoang- 0914 22 37 67, 0839154343 ext 115

Education: 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and training that provides knowledge, skills and abilities required 

Working Experience: 

• Minimum of  3 years of relevant experience in payroll
• Previous accounting systems, HRIS and/or employee benefits management experience is a plus
• Exceptional analytical, problem solving, time management and computer skills
• Excellent interpersonal, spoken and written communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, team environment
• Motivated and driven personality

Please feel free contact  Ms Susan: susan.ho@firstrecruitment-asia.com; 08 39 15 43 43

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Understanding the business objectives and company values to:

-    Identify the right competency of the human resource

-    Keep the management alert to changing conditions in the  labour market that impacts the recruitment need

Recruitment & Selection

-    Develop appropriate recruitment method & literature including the development of recruitment advertising.

-    Recruit, screen, and interview applicants for employment. Administer employment tests if appropriate.

-    Help line managers to pick up the applicants who best meet the selection criteria through: application screening, interview , tests ( technical and psychometric), background check, medical examination (if needed)

-    Consult with management to recommend and identify most qualified applicants and progress on orders;

-    Coordinates internal job posting and transfers program.  

-    Check references on potential hire, extend the validated offers to selected candidates, and prepare new hire material.

-    Update the candidates of the recruitment results.

-    Follow up on applicants to maintain the candidate pool.

-    Work with production line to finalize the operator demand weekly.

-    Work with recruitment agencies for operators recruitment demand.

-    Recruit operators if needed. 

Induction for new hire/ Orientation / On-boarding

-    Ensure the new hires of a adequate induction program

-    Arrange on-boarding program for new hire with HRBP, HRSS and all head departments.

Employee Branding (EB)

-    Know  SE Employer Value Propositions (EVP) to promote SE as Employer of Choice

-    Plan or execute EB programs to strengthen SE brand

-    Attend and organize Career event, Job fair

-    Strengthen the relationship with universities to attract young professionals and follow up with potential candidates for future need

-    Ensure good quality and quantity of internship.

L & D

-    Provide Training Logistics for NDVCs and DVCs

-    Follow up and register training courses to MLL system

Other HR activities: HRIS

-    Be supportive and the backup person of HR personnel on HRIS function , if needed

Description

1. Legal advice: (independently take charge up to 70%)

• Conduct  complex  legal  research  and  investigation  of  claims  and  defenses;  develop  oral  and  written advice  and  present  recommendations  to  supply chain and operation.

• Provide  legal  counsel  and  advice  on  a  broad  range  of  legal  topics  for supply chain and operation to  include  international commercial law, import and export laws, incoterms, laws on customer protection, etc.

• Anticipate and mitigate potential legal issues and develop strategies/ initiatives to avoid costly litigation actions and reduce potential area of risks.

• Keep abreast of legislative changes.

2. Legal Compliance: (independently take charge up to 70%)

• Support to develop policies and procedures to ensure legal compliance and simplicity execution. As appropriate, contribute to or influence company policies and support in developing innovative solutions for difficult, complex, and systemic problems.

• Monitor transaction compliance ensuring LOIs/contracts/ legal documents are signed within the agreed timeline and due process.

• Monitor possible areas of compliance risks and implement corrective action plans for resolution of current and potential risk.

• Provide and interpret legal regulation, conduct training and disseminate appropriate legal requirements to relevant departments.

3. Contract management:

3.1 Contract Drafting, evaluating and negotiating:  (independently take charge to 70%)

• Standardize template of contract/agreement/LOI and other legal documents tailored to each specific business activities to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of contract review Monitor competitive terms. Monitor customer satisfaction with our terms and conditions and contracting practices. Recommend changes.

• Analyze actual practice and potential risk to adjust the terms to make it suitable while still protects company at the best.

• Negotiate and advise on contractual matters or other business transactions for critical deal.

3.2 Contract reviewing/approving:

• Approve the contracts/annexes/LOI up to 2B VND (independently take charge up to 100%).

• Conduct the preliminary review of the remaining contracts. (Independently take charge to 70%).

3.3 Contract point: (independently take charge up to 100%)

• Attend weekly project meeting or other meetings to serve as the contact point for contractual matters.

• Guide on contracting guidelines or legal templates to support other departments/functions to follow the legal process. 

4. Others:

• Legal innovation. (Independently take charge to 60%).

• Review and conduct (where necessary) the translation work (Independently take charge up to 100%).

• Support to provide training to other business teams related to assigned job. (Independently take charge up to 70%).

• Other jobs as assigned by LM.

Qualifications

- Be qualified as a lawyer in Vietnam with good academic credentials and lawyer practicing certificate;

- Have at least 6 years’ relevant professional experience preferably as a lawyer in private practice or in a similar role working at MNC.

- Good command of spoken and written English and Vietnamese. IELTS overall band 6.5 or equivalent.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office tools such as Word and PowerPoint. 

- Being proactive, strong teamwork, customer service spirit and commercial oriented.

- Good communication and interpersonal skills across all levels of the organization and well-organization skill 

- Be able to manage multiple priorities, work efficiently under pressure and consistently meet tight deadlines.