Regional Contract Specialist

About the Company

Our client is a leading provider of maritime and logistics solutions in the Asia Pacific region.

About the Role

This role performs contract drafting, first round of legal review once functional stakeholder input has been incorporated: checking contracts for legal soundness, confirming material terms align with approved template language, and confirming all required stakeholder clearances are in place before a contract proceeds to approval and execution.

Key Responsibilities

Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Platform Administration

• Administer ContractSafe, ensuring contracts progress through workflow stages, monitoring intake, and following up on stalled records.
• Maintain CMG01 operational guidance and support Legal with system administration, metadata, naming conventions, and business unit onboarding.
• Monitor renewal and expiry alerts, ensuring Contract Owners are notified within policy timeframes.

Intake Coordination & Stakeholder Routing

• Review and triage contract requests, ensuring submissions are complete before routing.
• Coordinate functional stakeholder reviews, monitor approvals, and follow up to meet policy timelines.
• Liaise with Contract Owners to resolve submission issues and verify all required approvals before legal review.

Legal Review & Analysis

• Draft contract templates, amendments, and related documents.
• Conduct first-level legal reviews, assessing legal sufficiency, identifying material deviations from approved templates, and confirming contracts are ready for approval.
• Approve contracts within delegated authority, document review outcomes, and escalate complex or high-risk matters to the CELCO or external counsel.
• Identify legal, compliance, and commercial risks, maintaining clear review records and preparing contract summaries where required.

Training & User Support

• Develop and deliver ContractSafe training and user guidance.
• Act as the primary contact for process-related enquiries, escalating technical or legal matters as appropriate.
• Support onboarding and training for new business units.

Governance Support & Reporting

• Prepare contract metrics and reports to support governance and management reporting.
• Maintain audit-ready records of stakeholder approvals and consultation.
• Support policy reviews, governance activities, and continuous process improvement.

Business Partnering

• Provide practical guidance on contract governance requirements to business stakeholders.
• Build effective relationships with Contract Owners and Functional Stakeholders across the business.
• Support the CELCO and external counsel with contract remediation and ensure corrective actions are reflected in ContractSafe.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Law (S.H.) or Business Administration from a reputable university, with previous exposure of common law.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, stakeholder management, and leadership skills, with professional proficiency in both Bahasa Indonesia and English.
• Exposure to a CLM platform, contract review, or legal operations environment is a strong advantage.
• Minimum 1–3 years' post-qualification or equivalent practical legal experience, including in-house, training contract, or CLM/legal operations exposure.
• Comfortable working in or quickly learning a CLM platform. General technology fluency expected.
• Strong analytical, commercial, and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to assess legal risks and provide practical business-oriented solutions.
• Operates as a business partner, not a rigid procedural gatekeeper — able to work alongside operational teams across Asia without creating unnecessary friction.
• High availability and responsiveness, reflecting the pace of the shipping and logistics industry.
• Disciplined and self-directed; comfortable owning a queue of moving items without close supervision.

If this opportunity aligns with your background and aspirations, we would be delighted to hear from you. You may apply through the company’s website or send your updated CV directly to [email protected] for a confidential discussion.