South East Asia Legal Counsel

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**Job Details**:Kantar, backed by Bain Capital, is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.

As part of an ongoing transformation our APAC Legal team is growing and developing the commercial and functional support it provides across the region. Working with colleagues located throughout the region, you will ideally have experience across multiple Asian markets and be collaborative, pragmatic and solution-minded.

**Responsibilities**:

- Legal advice and counsel - You will act as a proactive legal contact to our business clients and internal human resources, marketing, finance and management functions, and advise on a wide range of legal issues, including providing deal support on a day-to-day basis.
- Draft and negotiate commercial agreements for clients, suppliers and partners to deliver pragmatic commercial solutions for Kantar.
- Work directly with colleagues across the South East Asia business to analyze legal risks, devise creative solutions, and develop strong, trusted advisor internal relationships.
- You will demonstrate a keen ability to issue-spot sensitive legal and commercial concerns, including a strong sense of when to escalate (and not escalate) such matters internally.
- You will help drive company alignment on privacy and data protection terms.
- You will also be involved in APAC-wide projects and at times give support across other markets in Asia on an “as needs” basis thus allowing you the opportunity to expand your experience and learning.
- You will support also on APAC and SA projects where administration of large amounts of data will be required, and you will facilitate requests around client contracts and documentation existing across APAC, SA and the wider global Kantar global markets, acting as a facilitator and manager of information to facilitate solutions.
- Kantar has a fast-developing South East Asia, APAC and Global Legal Team and you will participate in team calls and communications and enjoy formal and informal training, and learning opportunities, with regional and global colleagues.

**Qualifications**:

- 5+ years’ experience at a top law firm or in-house environment with a focus on commercial transactions.
- Experience in data privacy matters and their impact on business relationships is a plus.
- Experience with partnerships and intellectual property matters is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
- Strong commercial thinker and ability to advise on business-related legal issues.
- Team-oriented and highly collaborative you can create “win-win” solutions across a rapidly changing organization.
- Must be an independent and strategic thinker who is a strong team player (no job is too small or too large) and willing to take on additional responsibilities.
- Flexible and highly collaborative
- Superb organizational skills and ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects at once.
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, disruptive business.
- Proactive
- Communication secure in professional English in both oral and written
- Word, PPT and Excel

**Location**
Singapore, Scotts RoadSingapore

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We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.