133454 - Legal Manager - Consumer goods

RGF's Client - a Japanese company in the Consumer Goods industry - is looking for a Legal Manager to provide legal and compliance advice, manage contracts and disputes, ensure regulatory compliance, coordinate with external legal counsel, and lead the Legal Team.

• Working Location: Nha Be Commune, HCM City
• Monthly Salary: 30M ~ 36M VND Gross

Job Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Language: Business-level English
• Experience: 2-3 years in team management or legal decision-making responsibility.
• A valid Vietnamese lawyer practicing certificate/bar card is mandatory.
• Strong in distribution, FMCG, trading, logistics, warehousing, import-export, e-commerce or retail industry.
• Hands-on experience in commercial contracts, disputes, debt recovery, compliance, internal control and development of internal policies/procedures
• 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.

Preferred skills

• Can use Japanese
• Highly welcome candidates with experience in distribution, FMCG, trading, logistics, warehousing, import-export, e-commerce, or retail industry.
• Experience with authorities, inspections, administrative proceedings, licensing, litigation/arbitration or intellectual property is a strong advantage

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