The Senior Legal Manager is responsible for providing strategic legal, regulatory, governance, data privacy, and distribution compliance support to the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates. The role reports directly to the General Counsel and supports the effective management and delivery of legal services across the Legal Department. The role serves as a trusted advisor to management and business units, ensuring that business objectives are achieved in a legally sound manner while mitigating legal, regulatory, reputational, and operational risks.
The role is accountable for managing complex legal matters, litigation, corporate governance, data privacy, regulatory compliance, distribution compliance, and legal risk management initiatives, while ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and Company policies. Responsibilities: Legal Advisory and Risk Management Provide timely, practical, and commercially sound legal advice to management and business units on legal, regulatory, governance, and compliance matters.
Draft, review, negotiate, and approve contracts, legal opinions, policies, memoranda, and other legal documents. Identify, assess, and mitigate legal, regulatory, reputational, and operational risks arising from business activities, transactions, strategic initiatives, products, and projects. Advise stakeholders on the interpretation and application of laws, regulations, regulatory issuances, and internal policies.
Support business initiatives by providing risk-based legal solutions that enable informed business decision-making. Manage the legal risk exposure of the Company by ensuring compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements. Communicate and negotiate with regulators, external counsels, counterparties, industry associations, and other stakeholders as necessary. Ensure timely and quality responses to Requests for Legal Assistance (RLA) within agreed turnaround times and service standards.
Support legal matters involving local and regional affiliates and subsidiaries as required. Assist the Head of Legal in overseeing the Legal Department's advisory, litigation, governance, regulatory, compliance, and operational functions and act on delegated matters as required. Corporate Governance Advise and support the Board of Directors, Board Committees, Senior Management, and Corporate Secretary on corporate governance matters and regulatory developments.
Assist in drafting, reviewing, and filing corporate documents, including board resolutions, minutes, disclosures, secretary’s certificates, and corporate approvals. Coordinate and support board and committee meetings, including preparation of agendas, materials, and governance documentation. Maintain and oversee corporate records and governance-related documentation. Monitor compliance with corporate governance requirements prescribed by regulatory authorities and internal governance frameworks.
Recommend enhancements to governance policies, procedures, and practices in alignment with regulatory expectations and industry best practices. Support governance-related audits, regulatory examinations, and special projects. Assist the Corporate Secretary in implementing governance initiatives and strategic projects. Data Privacy and Information Governance Provide legal advice regarding compliance with the Data Privacy Act and applicable privacy regulations.
Review privacy notices, consent forms, data sharing agreements, data processing agreements, and related documentation. Assist in the investigation, assessment, mitigation, escalation, and reporting of personal data breaches and privacy incidents. Coordinate with Compliance, Information Security, Risk Management, Procurement, and the Data Protection Officer on privacy-related matters. Monitor developments in privacy laws and regulations.
Contract Management Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on commercial agreements, vendor agreements, technology agreements, distribution agreements, confi