Associate General Counsel - APAC

(i) drafting high value, complex, sale side agreements

(ii) leading the negotiation of legal and commercial areas of risk, with support from other stakeholders

(iii) distilling / summarizing key areas of risk (on a priority basis) in order to escalate and seek approval for waivers of risk from senior executives across multiple functions.

The ideal candidate for this role will have a Digital / Technology background (particularly experience negotiating and drafting SaaS contracts) and would be comfortably being primarily responsible for supporting the General Counsel, John Crane with the negotiation and drafting of digital supplier and customer contracts and templates to support John Cranes Digital agenda. Reporting to the General Counsel, John Crane, the Legal Director, APAC will be a primary contact for very senior stakeholders within the whole of the APAC region within John Crane. The ability to rapidly build personal credibility and ensure effective stakeholder management across the group is critical to this role. Change management skills, leadership and experience will also be key to helping the General Counsel, John Crane to role out key initiatives and "ways of working" across the APAC region. The Legal Director, APAC will also act as an ambassador for Smiths Group Leadership Behaviors, working closely with the Group Ethics Compliance Team and other Smiths Group Legal team colleagues to manage ethics and compliance related issues.

Responsible for providing strategic corporate and commercial legal advice across John Crane, APAC supporting on all legal matters including MA (with support from CoE), commercial, technology, data protection, real estate and compliance related matters. Leveraging support of CoE colleagues as required.

Primary responsibility will be supporting JC colleagues to negotiate and draft high value, complex, sale-side contracts with John Crane customers across the region.

Additional responsibility to support Procurement colleagues across the region who manage John Crane supply chain.

Additional responsibility to support John Crane Digital Team (based in UK and US) with drafting of Digital supply and customer contracts (including for SaaS), and all template agreements.

Responsible for supporting SVP and GC, Ethics Compliance, General Counsel, India and General Counsel, APAC to manage and oversee all ethics and compliance related issues in the region.

Prime contact for key John Crane stakeholders, including portfolio managers, GMs and HRBPs for regions in scope in addition to other senior stakeholders

Negotiation of key contracts with JC customers, partners and suppliers and management of legal issues arising from those contracts.

Oversight of agents and distributor contracts with support of JC Contracts Manager.

Legal Support for root cause analysis reviews in the event of customer quality issues.

Familiarity with data protection and GDPR compliance related issues to the extent relevant to drafting and negotiation of digital and technology contracts.

With support of Group EC, provide legal support to Trade Compliance team to manage operational impact of sanctions on JC.

Business partnering with key stakeholders on "blue sky thinking" to develop legal models aligned to commercialization of new products.

With the support of colleagues in Group EC, manage ESG related responses to customer questionnaires.

Compliance and other legal training for JC colleagues in sales and other functions. You should note that your title and job description are not exhaustive and the Company may require you from time to time to undertake other reasonable tasks within your capacity.