Legal Contracting Ctr AP (Sr Associate Analyst)

Do you want to work with passionate teams, providing excellent business and digital services to the Asia Pacific region?

Do you want an open, supportive, and caring working environment?

Do you view your development needs seriously as we do?

If YES, then take your career to the #NextLevel with BASF !

Main Tasks

• You will be responsible for drafting, review, processing, negotiating, commenting and approval of various standard contracts and documents, e.g. confidentiality agreements, corporate statutory documents.
• In particular, you will handle international sales and purchasing transactions based on playbooks and defined negotiation limits, as well as in cooperation with the legal and patent department.
• You will take over the input and maintenance of contract parameters as well as contracts and contract changes in the existing Contract Lifecycle Tool.
• You will identify ways to improve the current knowledge management system and to to capture new information that can be stored in the knowledge base in cooperation with the legal department.
• You will ensure efficiency of contract creation, management and approval process plus the creation and maintenance of standard contract models, clauses and playbooks.
• You will support legal tasks in M&A and project implementation, e.g. due diligence, assigning contracts for project integration.
• You will support compliance audit and legal investigations, prepare and update presentations slides and training records for Legal & Compliance.
• You will support other ancillary legal tasks, e.g. providing contract overview using AI tools, translation and other housekeeping activities.

Requirements

• You have successfully completed your university degree in law preferable with a focus on commercial law.
• You have experience in draft and legal review of contracts, preferably with commercial law emphases.
• You have already gained 1 to 3 years of professional experience in legal and commercial contract management, preferably with knowledge or law practice on both common law and civil law systems.
• You are fluent in English and additional Asian language(s) (e.g. Japanese, Korean, etc), enabling you to successfully contribute to an international environment.
• You are used to work with legal databases and standard IT applications.
• You communicate effectively and in line with the target audience and use value-creating opportunities for cooperation, both in-house and across units.
• Your very good analytical skills, your goal-oriented approach and your pronounced customer orientation make you an important member of our team.

BASF Asia-Pacific Service Centre was established in 2005. Located in Kuala Lumpur, the regional service hub has approximately 1,100 employees and growing. Focused on being a competency and digitalization driven hub, it also provides quality functional and know-how services in the areas of finance, controlling, human resources, real estate and facilities management, communications, environmental, health and safety, procurement, import-export order management, and information services to BASF companies and affiliates in the Asia Pacific region. BASF also has two other regional hubs located in Berlin, Germany, and Montevideo, Uruguay that cover the Europe and Americas regions.

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. Around 111,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €78.6 billion in 2021. BASF shares are traded on the stock exchange in Frankfurt (BAS) and as American Depositary Receipts (BASFY) in the U.S. Further information at www.basf.com.

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Candidates must be resident in Malaysia, or have the right to work in Malaysia.