Head of Legal, Malaysia

Why this role?

This is a high-impact leadership opportunity to shape the legal direction of a global brand in Malaysia. You’ll play a key role in safeguarding the company’s interests, ensuring legal and regulatory compliance, and acting as a strategic advisor to the business. As part of the Malaysia leadership team, you'll have regional exposure, autonomy, and a chance to drive meaningful change in a dynamic, growth-focused environment.

What will you be doing?

• Lead, coach, and develop the local legal team to ensure that legal activities are conducted efficiently, ethically and in alignment with KONE’s internal policies and standards.
• Provide expert legal advice on a wide range of legal matters, including corporate, commercial and regulatory issues.
• Draft, review and negotiate sales contracts, other commercial agreements and legal documents to support business objectives while ensuring legal compliance.
• Collaborate closely with the Compliance team to uphold the KONE Code of Conduct.
• Proactively identify, prevent and mitigate legal and contractual risks through effective preventive legal strategies.
• Support the business in managing and responding to contractual claims and disputes to safeguard KONE’s interests.
• Proactively protect and enforce KONE’s rights in all business dealings.
• Provide strategic oversight on legal disputes, legal proceedings and investigations, including selection and management of external counsel.
• Implement global and regional legal policies.
• Maintain strong internal relationships across functions to understand business needs and share best practices across the organization.
• Engage with internal stakeholders to provide strategic legal guidance that supports business growth while ensuring an acceptable level of legal risk.
• Stay abreast of developments in Malaysian law, regulations and legal market practices that may impact KONE’s operations.
  
  

Are you the one?

• A relevant Law degree with at least 10 years of experience in a multinational company and/or a leading law firm.
• Strong knowledge of Malaysian laws, regulations and market practices
• Fluency in both English and Malay is required; proficiency in Mandarin is an advantage.
• The ability to assess and improve legal processes, recommending and driving change where necessary.
• A proven track record of leading and developing legal teams
• Excellent negotiation, leadership and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across various functions and influence senior stakeholders.
• High levels of integrity, adaptability, and work ethic, with a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
• Experience working in fast-paced, matrixed environments and managing complex legal and business challenges.
• Willingness to travel within Malaysia and across the region when required.
• Experience in the construction industry is a strong plus.
  
  

What do we offer?

• Career progression and opportunities within a global organization.
• Total reward elements that engage and motivate our employees and help us make KONE a great place to work.
• Comprehensive learning and development programs cover a wide range of professional skills.
• You are surrounded by fun colleagues and a lively working environment. The best part is that all leaders are supportive and open-minded.
  
  

Click on apply if you have a passion for meeting up with people and a desire to make an impact in the elevator and escalator industry.

At KONE, we are focused on creating an innovative and collaborative working culture where we value the contribution of each individual. Employee engagement is a key focus area for us and we encourage participation and the sharing of information and ideas. Sustainability is an integral part of our culture and the daily practice. We follow ethical business practices and we seek to develop a culture of working together where co-workers trust and respect each other and good performance is recognized. In being a great place to work, we are proud to offer a range of experiences and opportunities that will help you to achieve your career and personal goals and enable you to live a healthy and balanced life.

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