Job Description

Are you ready to get ahead in your career?

• We want to empower you to turn your ambitions into achievements.
• We thrive in inclusiveness, diversity and embrace close collaborations for you to create impact for yourself and others.
• Together, we aim to bring the best of technology to help people, businesses and the nation to be ahead in a changing world.
• To realise our vision to become Malaysia’s leading converged solutions company, we are looking for a new talent to innovate and grow with us in a culture that values commitment, performance and possibilities.

Why does this job exist and why is it critical?​

This role provides legal support to various business divisions within the Maxis group to facilitate operations.  Support includes review of documents, negotiating with counterparties, legal research and advisory. This role is required to do commercial contracts with some grounding on MACC, PDPA and CPA.

What are you accountable for?

• Legal support & advisory to business divisions within the Maxis group to facilitate contracts and dealings with third parties.

• Collaborate with various departments within the Maxis group especially the consumer business and sales & services, teams to understand their requirements and concerns with a view to provide legal advisory and support – this will facilitate the operations of the Maxis group while ensuring compliance

• Draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts e.g. partnership and collaboration agreements with retail service providers, merchants, distributors, resellers, dealers etc.

• Draft and review customer’s terms and conditions on retail product and services   

• Provide legal advice on business operations relating to compliance such as areas involving the Consumer Protection Act 1999, Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Act 2009 and the Personal Data Protection Act 2010

• Where required to interface, liaise and coordinate between Maxis group stakeholders and external counsel.  

• Ensure Maxis’ interests are protected while complying with laws and regulations when undertaking assigned duties and tasks.

• Balance legal issues against commercial requirements in the performance of assigned duties and tasks.  Rendering pragmatic legal advice while ensuring legal compliance and Maxis’ interests are protected

• Advice must be practical while ensuring Maxis’ interests are protected and compliance with law observed

What do you need to have for this role?

• Degree in Law (LLB)

• Minimum  7 to 10 years’ experience post being called to the Bar with at least 3 years in a private practice with a leading law firm

• Able to work independently

• Positive, passionate, collaborative

• Thrives in a challenging and dynamic environment

• Enjoys learning new things, meeting new people and working with diverse range of internal stakeholders.

• Critical thinking and good problem-solving abilities

• Strong communication, inter-personal and negotiation skills when dealing with counter-parties to a transaction as well as internal stakeholders.

What’s next?

• Once you’ve applied online, our team will carefully review your application. Due to a high volume of applications, we appreciate your patience to allow for a fair and timely review process.
• Should you be shortlisted for the role, we will send you an invitation via email for a digital interview. You can also check on your application status by logging into your candidate account.

Maxis values diverse voices & people. We hire and reward our employees based on capability & performance — regardless of ethnicity, gender, age, education, religion, nationality or physical ability.

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