Legal & Compliance Counsel Seat

2 weeks ago

Singapore Roquette Full time

Roquette is a family-owned global leader in plant-based ingredients, a pioneer of plant proteins and a leading provider of pharmaceutical excipients.

What makes us proud?


Using plant-based resources, we collaborate with our customers and partners to imagine and offer ingredients to better feed people and treat patients.

Each of our ingredients responds to unique and essential needs, and they enable healthier lifestyles.

To meet our challenges, we are looking for a Legal & Compliance Counsel SEAT (South-East Asia and Taiwan) within the Legal team


This position will be based in Singapore and play a critical role in supporting the business ambitions of Roquette in the region.

Our Team


The Legal Counsel, SEAT possesses a high level of professionalism, displays a growth mindset, has excellent communication skills and can work in a cross-functional, multi-cultural and matrixed organisation.

Close working relationships with other colleagues in the legal and compliance function will be a key to success.

Their mission


This role demands for a proactive business enabler: providing commercially minded and pragmatic, timely and accurate legal advice in a variety of legal topics.

This involves possessing a good balance of legal and business acumen with analytical ability and attention to detail.

This role requires someone who will excel at negotiating, sustaining and developing client and other business relationships. Therefore, you will need to be confident enough to work independently, but also as part of a team.

Your experience and talents will make the difference to:

Key Accountabilities:

  • Be the first point of legal contact in SEAT for legal and compliance matters
  • Responsible for ensuring that Roquette businesses in the region operate in compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements, reporting back and seeking guidance as required from the Head of Legal, Greater Asia
  • Ensure that contracts (both supplier and customer) of Roquette businesses in the region are fit for purpose and include appropriate protections for the businesses, including through the implementation of Groupwide policies designed to optimise and stadardise contractual terms and mitigate contractual risk. Review, draft and negotiate contracts
  • Support Compliance initiatives for Roquette businesses in the region, working in conjunction with the Compliance team, where necessary, having responsibility for ensuring appropriate directives, policies, procedures, and training for the businesses in the region are generally in place, including, where applicable, the implementation of Groupwide directives, policies and procedures
  • Advise and support Roquette on Privacy compliance in the region, including being appointed as the Data Protection Officer where local laws require the appointment
  • Monitor legal and regulatory developments relevant to the activities of Roquette businesses and operations in the region and its clients in order to anticipate future risks and issues and provide updates to the Head of Legal Greater Asia, compliance colleagues and other key stakeholders where necessary to ensure that Roquette businesses in the region are prepared to respond to any such developments
  • Support the Group Company Secretary with the administration of legal entities in the region and the implementation and compliance with internal corporate governance policies, controls and procedures
  • Support the Head of Legal Greater Asia with the effective management of commercial disputes and litigation to which the businesses become involved including, where relevant, liaising with insurers and the effective reporting of such matters to relevant members of Legal and other key stakeholders
  • Provide ad hoc compliance and legal support and advice to Roquette Group generally
  • Assist with new business activities, acquisitions and/or disposals by the Roquette Group generally and specifically in relation to its businesses in the region
  • Manage external legal, corporate secretarial and compliance resources and report on external spend to the Head of Legal Greater Asia and other members of Legal as may be necessary

What we will love about you:

  • Experience within the chemical / food / pharmaceutical / healthcare industry preferred but not required
  • High level of integrity and professionalism
  • A proven track record of learning agility
  • Excellent critical thinking, analytical, reasoning, and negotiation skills
  • Excellent business judgment and high level of professionalism
  • Creative problemsolving ability
  • Excellent legal & contract analytical skills with a good eye for detail
  • Detailoriented, knowledgeable, and persuasive, with excellent communication skills
  • Good leadership, organizational, time management, and multitasking skills
  • Able to prioritise tasks, work under pressure and meet deadlines
  • Flexible within the role and willing to get involved as required by the task at hand
  • Selfdriven and resourceful to achieve goals inde

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