legal counsel

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Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, including protecting the environment, ensuring food safety and helping find cures for cancer.

DESCRIPTION

The legal counsel will serve as a trusted legal counsel and business partner to designated commercial units and functions. The role provides practical, business-oriented legal support across day-to-day commercial operations in China, advises stakeholders on a broad range of commercial and corporate legal matters, supports dispute and investigation management, and contributes to the AI-assisted development and reuse of legal knowledge resources.

Key Responsibilities

·         Review, draft and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts and other legal documents relating to day-to-day business operations throughout China.

·         Assist with claims, disputes, government investigations, litigation and arbitrations involving matters such as channel partners, export controls, product liability and contract performance.

·         Provide timely, practical and commercially focused legal advice to relevant stakeholders on commercial and other corporate legal matters.

·         Maintain and continuously improve legal knowledge resources, including precedents, playbooks, templates and FAQs, to support effective knowledge sharing and reuse across the team.

·         Other matters as may be assigned from time to time.

REQUIREMENTS

Minimum Requirements / Qualifications

·         PRC bar qualification.

·         At least 4 years of relevant legal experience with a strong track record at prestigious law firms and/or in-house legal teams of multinational corporations; experience in the manufacturing industry is highly preferred.

·         Strong business acumen, with a proactive, solution-oriented approach and a high degree of sensitivity to business needs.

·         Strong interest in innovative legal AI tools; hands-on experience with legal technology or AI tools is a plus.

·         Adaptable, quick to learn and able to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment and under pressure.

·         Proficient in spoken and written English, with the ability to review, draft and negotiate legal documents in English.