Senior Legal Counsel, Malaysia & Singapore (12 months contract)

Senior Legal Counsel, Malaysia & Singapore (12 months contract)

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kotex®, Poise® and Depend®.

At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
 

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

This is a single contributor role and will have end-to-end responsibility for all legal matters in Malaysia and Singapore.

He/she will provide legal strategy to accomplish the objectives of the business units while ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.

The successful candidate will be the legal business partner to the Managing Director of Malaysia & Singapore, and be the representation of legal leadership and capability within the Malaysia & Singapore Leadership Team.

This role will also support the APAC Global Business Services team based in Malaysia. 

Key Responsibilities


* Prepared to travel within Malaysia (including to Kluang where the plant is located), Singapore and regionally / globally as needed. 


* Legal business partner to the Malaysia and Singapore leadership team.

Identify legal risks, propose changes required and where relevant lead the implementation of the changes.


* Contracts: Review and participate in the negotiation, review and approval of material contracts.


* Marketing and digital / social commerce: Provide guidance, advice on product developments and approval of marketing claims and commercial initiatives (including digital and social commerce initiatives)


* Employment: Provide legal advice on employment-related issues, work closely with HR to ensure country practices, polices and work rules comply with relevant labour regulations and to maintain harmonious relationship with Union, advise on employment disputes.


* Disputes / Litigation: Lead and manage legal disputes including marketing claim challenges and regulatory inquiries and investigations.


* Regulatory: Legal guidance to manufacturing / plant team on dealings with regulatory agencies during inspections, inquiries, or investigations.

Advise on legal risks regarding accid...