Job Summary
This role encompasses commercial, corporate, intellectual property, employment, and compliance matters arising from our research and development work in Ireland. As a legal professional, you will work in a cutting-edge, multi-national technological space, supporting Huawei across a broad range of commercial, intellectual property and compliance matters.
This is an opportunity to provide practical legal advice to business units and management on all legal issues arising from Huawei's research, development, intellectual property activities in Ireland. You will be part of the Ireland and global legal team, working closely with colleagues across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Advise the business on contractual/transactional issues ranging from procurement to research partnerships, and miscellaneous agreements regarding business development.
- Review and draft general commercial contracts and other documents, including NDAs, master service agreements, master procurement agreements, terms and conditions, intellectual property related agreements and real estate-related agreements;
- Support the business with key areas of statutory compliance including anti-bribery, data protection and export control.
- Conduct training sessions for non-legal staff on compliance issues and other legal risk areas (e.g. anti-bribery, data protection, confidentiality/trade secrets, business conduct, etc.).
- Work with the Head of Legal to identify issues of regional importance and provide solutions for Huawei research centres across Ireland and EU.
- Horizon-scanning and advising management on upcoming changes in the law or other external business risks which may impact Huawei's operations in Ireland.
Requirements
- Excellent legal drafting skills – ability to work with existing templates and to create bespoke wording/documents as required by the business.
- Experienced Legal Executive or a Solicitor with at least 2 years' experience either in a law firm in Ireland or in a relevant in-house role at a recognized company/institution.
- Ability to comprehend legal issues and to explain the issues in plain English without legal jargon to non-legal staff.
- Strong experience with commercial law/contracts and employment law together with related areas of statutory compliance.
- Demonstrable knowledge of intellectual property law and data privacy issues.
- An ability to work closely with a variety of stakeholders on a local and global basis to develop strong working relationships.
- Strong inter-personal skills and ability to work in a multi-national and multi-cultural environment.
- Pragmatic, with a commercial outlook and an understanding of business needs.
- Good academic qualifications from a top tier university.
- Ability to work under pressure and to make sound decisions.
- Ability to communicate well.
- Ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team
- Excellent planning, attention to detail, organisational and time management skills with the ability to work to tight time schedules, prioritising and handling conflicting demands