Assoc Director, Legal

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Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide legal support as deemed necessary by both site lead and global legal team
• Represents company on internal and external legal issues
• Acts as a strategic business partner to review, draft, negotiate, and advise on a wide variety of commercial agreements to meet business and legal requirements, including SaaS agreements, master services agreements, licensing agreements, channel partner contracts, reseller agreements, professional services agreements, marketing agreements, vendor agreements, and non-disclosure agreements; partner with relevant business stakeholders as necessary.
• Supports, coaches, and trains contracts, sales, supply chain, quality, engineering, and other functional teams on deal structure, contract negotiations, commercial best practices and maintains playbook of business terms.
• Ensuring overall compliance of site on regulatory requirements imposed by Philippine government and its agencies, and function as external affairs and compliance officer representing the organization to government agencies that require regulatory compliance including but not limited to Philippine Economic Zone Authority, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Labor and Employment.
• Monitor and ensure site-wide implementation of Ethics and Compliance guidelines.
• Function as site Data Privacy Officer. for Collins Aerospace entities in the Philippines, and help ensure compliance with data privacy laws and regulations.
• Continuously improves standard form agreements and legal processes to help scale the legal function.
• Aids in the development and implementation of processes, procedures, and metrics (including efficient contracting processes) to increase the overall effectiveness of the legal services provided to the company.
• Provides sound legal and business advice to all functional team members and members of senior management regarding strategic business relationships.
• Addresses legal risk in business-centric ways, developing processes to solve problems, strengthening partnerships, and advancing opportunities.
• Understands data rights and other intellectual property issues.
• Litigation (primarily bid protests, but also disputes/claims) as it arises.
• Understands cost accounting issues.
• Interprets complex laws, rulings, and regulations and provides expertise to individuals and businesses on legal issues to ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
• Supports other procurement related legal issues as they arise.
• Other duties as assigned

Basic Qualifications:

• Juris Doctor Degree (or local equivalent) from an accredited institution and 7 years of experience in law firm or multinational organization in the Philippines
• Ability to read, write, and speak fluently in English and Filipino
• Ability to prioritize and juggle multiple tasks.
• Able to work and operate in a highly matrixed organization

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior in-house experience
• Aerospace industry experience
• Must have a business-oriented, pragmatic approach to challenges that arise in a fast-paced environment.

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