Legal Executive

About the role

• Conduct first-pass legal review of client and vendor contracts against the group's standard contracting positions and template framework; resolve routine points independently and escalate material risk to the Senior Legal Counsel.

• Produce summaries of key terms in incoming contracts and flag points for the senior counsel's attention; liaise directly with account teams and counterparties on lower-risk matters under senior oversight.

• Prepare fallback positions, track open points, and turn around revised drafts.

• Conduct legal research on discrete, jurisdiction-specific questions to support the senior counsel's advisory and negotiation work.

• Maintain the legal template library and template architecture, ensuring correct version control and consistent use across markets.

• Provide legal-administration support: organizing the legal document repository, tracking obligations and key dates from a legal standpoint.

• Prepare internal guidance, FAQs, and template-use reminders for account and business teams, and coordinate with them on document status and turnaround.

• Coordinate with and advise account and business teams on routine legal questions and support compliance matters, referring anything of substance to the Senior Legal Counsel.

• Support compliance across the Group, including advertising, tax/invoicing, data privacy (PDPA and equivalent regulations), policy maintenance, and routine compliance inquiries.

• Support corporate transactions and governance matters, including document organization, corporate records, and tracking of transaction-related action items.

• Provide other legal and administrative support to the Senior Legal Counsel as business needs arise

About you

• Law degree (LLB or equivalent).

• Fresh grad, 2-3 years' commercial/contracts experience, in-house or private practice; agency, media, or marketing exposure an advantage.

• Strong bilingual English/Vietnamese drafting.

• Highly organized with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.

• Comfortable working with cross-functional teams across different jurisdictions and cultures.

• Proactive, collaborative, and willing to learn, with sound judgment to recognize when issues should be escalated to the Senior Legal Counsel.

About Vero

Vero is an award-winning strategic communications consultancy advising leading brands, corporations, and non-profits across Southeast Asia. With 250+ consultants in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam, we combine expertise across PR, digital, influence, creative, events, and government relations. We are B Corp certified, a Clean Creatives pledge signatory, and committed to work that creates real impact. Recent expansions include Vero IQ (data-driven insights), VeroXperience (brand events), and Vero Advocacy (government relations).