Legal Manager (28817) | Nha Be, HCM city

【Job Summary】
- Lead key legal matters of the Company, including legal advisory, contracts, compliance, disputes, claims, government authority matters, intellectual property and personal data protection.
- Provide clear, conclusion-based and business-practical legal advice and identify matters requiring escalation.
- Manage and improve the Contract Review Policy, contract templates, checklists, review process and quality of Legal Team responses.
- Manage disputes, labor issues, inspections/administrative proceedings, litigation/arbitration and coordination with external law firms.
- Guide, allocate work to and train the Legal Team to improve work quality and decision-making capability.

【Job description】
1. Legal Advisory and Decision Support
- Advise the BOD/BOM, Legal & Risk Management Manager and departments on legal and compliance matters arising from daily operations and key projects.
- Analyze facts, evidence, laws, internal rules and business impact to provide clear conclusions, options and recommendations.
- Proactively provide a handling approach for ordinary or medium-risk matters within delegated scope; escalate material matters with a proposed option.
2. Contracts and Contract Review Governance
- Draft, review and negotiate contracts in Vietnamese and English, including distribution, sales, service, logistics, warehousing, lease, marketing, NDA and related amendments.
- Manage mandatory review scope, thresholds, responsibilities of Business/Legal/BOM, timing of Legal involvement and approval flow.
- Standardize contract templates, checklists, guidelines and training materials so departments can check basic issues before submitting matters to Legal.
3. Compliance, Personal Data and Intellectual Property
- Support the development, update and implementation of internal rules/procedures on contracts, seals, information, personal data protection and approval authority.
- Monitor key legal changes and convert them into simple, practical guidance for departments.
- Advise on intellectual property, personal data protection, information confidentiality, anti-bribery/corruption and internal compliance requirements.
4. Disputes, Authorities and External Counsel
- Manage contract disputes, claims, receivables, claim-back matters, labor issues and other sensitive matters.
- Work with government authorities in inspections, administrative proceedings, licensing and related legal matters.
- Manage coordination with external law firms, including scope of work, documents, advice quality, cost and timeline.
5. Legal Team Management and Reporting
- Allocate, guide, review, and train the Legal Team to improve output quality and independent issue-handling capability.
- Report periodically or as needed on contract review status, disputes, receivables, compliance and key legal matters.

- Bachelor’s degree in Law; graduates from reputable law universities in Vietnam or overseas are preferred.
- At least 7–10 years of legal experience in a corporate legal department or law firm, including at least 2–3 years in team management or legal decision-making responsibility.
- Experience in FDI companies
- Good at English (Upper Intermediate Level)


- Ability to provide clear legal conclusions and practical actions under imperfect information.
- Business-oriented legal judgment and ability to balance risk control with operational speed.
- Team management skills, including delegation, quality supervision, and coaching of junior staff.
- Integrity, confidentiality, ownership, resilience under pressure, and ability to communicate compliance requirements clearly.