China legal counsel

Vacature omschrijving

One brand, many companies, and many, many people - that's us in a nutshell. Spread all over the world, we have a passion for home furnishing and an inspiring shared vision: to create a better everyday life for the many people. This, together with our straightforward business idea, shared values, and a culture based on the spirit of togetherness, guides us in everything we do.

To offer a wide range of well-designed, functional home furnishing products at prices so low, that as many people as possible will be able to afford them. To meet the needs of our customers we have a unique business model and value chain. It includes product development, design, supply, manufacture, and sales. And of course, it starts and ends with our customers.

Generalist Part

• Monitor legal requirements which are related to our business, and proactively interpretate the legal requirement from Inter IKEA business perspective, advise business teams or other functions for implementation.
• Overall responsible for daily legal affairs for dedicated Scope, including but not limited in consultancy, contracts, advise, tackle legal dispute and issues.
• Draft, review and maintain legal documents, contract templates and other necessary legal materials.
• Plan and deliver legal training of legal compliance & relevant requirements.
• Provide ad-hoc legal support to business projects and collaborate with global legal colleagues and other key stakeholders.

• Leading internal process for legal cases through arbitration or litigation.
• Support China Legal & Governance team to handle other ad-hoc legal affairs.

Specialist Part

• Dedicated on manufacturing companies (home furniture & components plants)
• Focus on sustainability (ESG) legislation area.

• Solid knowledge of Chinese laws in civil & commercial areas. It's necessary having practical experience in company law, contract law, litigation and/or arbitration, employment issues, and product quality.
• Having knowledge and experience in sustainability (ESG) areas shall be preferred.
• Self-motivated
• Passionate with business mindset
• Enjoy sharing and collaboration
• Proactive and initiative-driven
• Keen on continuous renew and improve
• Enthusiastic about taking on challenges and achieving goals.
• Fluent legal English in both writing and oral.
• Good communication skill stakeholder engagement.
• Strong logical & structural thinking.
• Strong leadership in diversified business environment.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skillset.

• Working in a diversified and multi-national environment.
• Legal support in supply chain for consuming goods.
• Handled litigation or arbitration cases of both commercial and employment
• Legal support to crisis management.
• Project experience with diversified stakeholders.