Position Snapshot

Location: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MY

Company: Nestlé Malaysia

Full-time

Bachelor’s Degree

4+ years of experience

Position Summary

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world. At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. A Nestle career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. With Nestle, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people.

We are looking for a Senior Legal Executive to act as a legal advisor to the Market, providing operational legal advice, transactional and support services required in an effective, proactive and timely manner and with a commercial sense/focus in order to protect the Company whilst enabling flawless execution of the business objectives..

A day in the life of...

• Delivering support in defined Legal & Compliance ("L&C") areas, as determined by the Head of Legal, and supporting the development of long-term strategies to accelerate the Legal team’s ability to protect and enable the organization in those areas.

• Proactively training the organization on the L&C areas that the individual supports.

• Working closely and collaboratively with key stakeholders at all levels (potentially including senior management) to provide expert and business-focused day-to-day counsel across a broad scope of issues. As part of this, the individual will work collaboratively with the Market, Zone and Global contacts to leverage synergies and global expertise for the benefit of the local business and support the Center/Zone on Centre/Zone-led strategic initiatives including the implementation of L&C technology, as well as collaborating on market specific requests from the Center.

• Identifying and exploiting cost-saving opportunities whilst maintaining quality and ensuring that L&C solutions in their area of responsibility are standardized and systematized to the extent possible, considering the differing needs of the various businesses and the legal digital tools available.

• Other specific key outputs may be required if the L&C personnel is performing a specialist role. Supporting the Head of Legal and undertaking tasks delegated by the Head of Legal.

What will make you successful

• Law Degree or other applicable professional designation from recognized and accredited school or certification body

• Member in good standing with the applicable legal or professional body

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant L&C experience.

• Experienced in drafting various types of agreements and managing the whole end-to-end process.

• English and BM language skills.

• Strong written and oral communication skills.

• Strong contract drafting and negotiation skills.

• Expertise in accountable L&C areas (identified above), supplemented by general knowledge of other L&C areas affecting the organization

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office – Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote

We are Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company. We are 308,000 employees strong driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Our values are rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity and respect for our future. With more than CHF 91.4 billion sales in 2018, we have an expansive presence with 413 factories in more than 85 countries. We believe our people are our most important asset, so we'll offer you a dynamic inclusive international working environment with many opportunities across different businesses, functions and geographies, working with diverse teams and cultures. Want to learn more? Visit us at www.nestle.com.