リーガルスタッフ/ Legal Staff Exclusive job

Drafting and negotiating a variety of agreement types, such as confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements, consultancy agreements, service agreements, grants and sponsorship agreements and other types of agreements with minimal supervision and within established guidelines set by the Legal Dept.

• Review of third party agreements to ensure appropriate terms and conditions
• Mitigate compliance and legal risks in contracts working closely with internal clients to understand business objectives and expectations, to address identified issues and concerns and to provide contract and compliance advice ensuring compliance with policies and procedures, ethical practices, company values, and adherence to relevant laws and regulations
• Management of contract templates and keeping them up to date with policies, laws and regulations
• Identify needs and support for continuous improvement of contract processes, policies and templates and support management in planning and implementing improvements
• Monitor workload, anticipate peak periods of work and define and implement plans to tackle such periods
• Identify contract training needs for clients and manage such training requirements
• Support Legal Advisor in a variety of projects such as drafting and negotiation of non-routine business contracts
• Support with Japan corporate governance matters
• Assist with preparation and delivery of training on compliance and other legal policies and procedures
• Conduct legal research and analysis related to healthcare regulations
• Assist with providing and organizing effective training within Japan Legal Department on contracting and various other subject matters

• Minimum Bachelors in Law degree or equivalent
• 2-4 years’ experience in drafting, reviewing or negotiating contracts in a multinational company
• Fluent in Japanese alongside business level English.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills, and excellent writing and editing abilities
• Solid experience and understanding of legal terms and conditions
• Strong interpersonal skills to work as a team-player and to effectively work with people of diverse rank and culture across a variety of business disciplines
• Ability to quickly grasp business objectives, prioritize and organize work and multi-task
• Ability to work successfully under tight deadlines
• Ability to identify, define and prioritize risks and communicate those to appropriate internal decisionmakers for discussion and resolution
• Experience working with a contract management and archiving system or other database document management system
• Fully committed to the job to deliver outstanding work product and a strong service orientation and positive “can-do” attitude
• Accurate and precise, logical and organized, flexible and receptive to change
• Ability to work independently, organize and to deal effectively with a broad range of personalities