H&M

Global fast-fashion retailer of affordable clothing

Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel & Legal SupportConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeShanghai, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A legal degree is required.
Three to five years of legal experience is required.
Understanding of risk assessment and the ability to articulate associated consequences to decision makers are required.
Comfort with decision-making in ambiguous circumstances and tight timelines is required.

Responsibilities

Set and enforce legal standards, templates, and strategies.
Stay up to date on global legal requirements and standards and support the market in meeting them.
Continuously improve contracts to safeguard the organization.
Meet legal objectives by ensuring regulatory compliance while securing business aims.
Negotiate, draft, and review agreements, including lease and marketing-related agreements.
Conduct judicial enquiries and due diligence, and identify and analyze associated risks and consequences.
Support tendering processes.
Handle and settle disputes, including commercial and employee-relations disputes.
Set and implement routines and ways of working for contract execution, handling, and administration, and ensure they are followed correctly.
Assist Sales Market Controllers and Account Managers with corporate matters, including drafting corporate documentation and governance policies and guidelines.

Desired Qualifications

Experience in leasing or real estate is desirable but not required.
Ability to lead and coach a team and manage and inspire team members.
Exceptional written and oral communication skills, including confidence presenting to senior stakeholders internally and externally.

Job Description

Legal Strategy & Standards

You set and enforce legal standards, templates and strategies.
You stay up to date and understand global legal requirements and standards and support your market to achieve these.
You constantly improve our contracts so that we are safeguarded in the best possible way.
Meet legal objectives – ensuring regulatory compliance whilst securing business aims.

Contract Management & Risk Handling

You negotiate, draft and review various agreements, including lease, marketing related agreements.
You conduct judicial enquiries and due diligence and identify and analyze any risks and consequences associated hereto.
You support tendering processes etc.
You handle and settle disputes including commercial disputes and ER disputes.
You set and implement routines and the way of working for execution, handling and administration of contracts and ensure it is done in the correct way.

Cross‑Functional Legal Support

Assist Sales Market Controllers/Account Manager in corporate matters incl. drafting corporate documentation and governance policies/guidelines.

Qualifications

Education

Legal degree

Skills

The ability to lead and coach a team, to manage and inspire team members
Exceptional communication skills, both written and oral. Comfortable to confidently present to senior stakeholders, both internally and externally
Understanding of risk assessment and ability to articulate associated consequences to decision makers
Comfortable with decision-making, even in ambiguous circumstances and tight timelines

Experience

3–5 years of legal experience, ideally with experience in leasing or real estate (meriting but not required)

Additional Information

WHO WE ARE

H&M Group is a global company of strong fashion brands and ventures. Our goal is to prove that there is no compromise between exceptional design, affordable prices, and sustainable solutions. We want to liberate fashion for the many, and our customers are at the heart of every decision we make.

We are made up of thousands of passionate and talented colleagues united by our shared culture and values. Together, we want to use our power, our scale, and our knowledge to push the fashion industry towards a more inclusive and sustainable future.

JOIN US

Our uniqueness comes from a combination of many things – our inclusive and collaborative culture, our strong values, and opportunities for growth. But most of all, it's our people who make us who we are.

Take the next step in your career together with us. The journey starts here.

*We are committed to a recruitment process that is fair, equitable, and based on competency. We therefore kindly ask you to not attach a cover letter in your application.

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