Position Title:  Counsel

Be a part of a revolutionary change

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on one clear purpose – to deliver a smoke-free future.

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

We are looking for Attorney who works with affiliate management to provide quality, business-centric and timely legal analysis, advice, representation, negotiation and documentation in a wide variety of PM business activities and initiatives to enable PMI’s Smoke Free Future vision coherently with relevant laws and regulations and PMI positions. He/she will also support the Senior Counsel to implement departmental practices and objectives.

The Counsel will have to be a person of vision, integrity, commitment, maturity, and sound judgment.  The Counsel will report to the Senior Counsel.

Key Responsibilities

• Partners with global subject matter experts, regional legal teams, the Senior Counsel and business colleagues to create proactive strategies designed to avoid or minimize exposure to legal liability while enabling business objectives.
• Helps business colleagues understand the risks and consequences of the given situation.  Effectively communicates the consequences and develops alternatives to manage identified risks.
• Efficiently gathers and distills relevant information from appropriate sources, identifies and analyzes legal issues and knows when to escalate them
• Drafts key documents, presents clear recommendations and ensures legal compliance as it relates to the noted areas of law.
• In coordination with External Affairs and with the supervision of the Senior Counsel, represents the company’s position before national and local government agencies regarding the noted areas of law and support PMI’s harm reduction advocacy.
• Stays current with legal developments, best practices and benchmarks in the noted areas of law and assists business colleagues in implementing policies and procedures in response thereto.
• Participate in project teams, ensuring that their decisions and recommendations protect the legal interests of the affiliate and PMI and execute decisions to achieve objectives on a timely basis
• Maintains a culture with a high degree of emphasis on dignity, respect, and inclusion.

Critical Skills

• Subject to prevailing business needs and the Senior Counsel’s directions, acts as the first point of/primary legal contact for business colleagues and assumes the role of the market’s subject matter expert in certain legal, governance, regulatory, risk and policy areas.
• Review, draft, revise and negotiate a wide range of agreements with customers, vendors, partners, distributors, resellers and other third parties, including software and intellectual property licenses, technology agreement, distributor, professional services, cloud, and other complex commercial agreements.
• Monitor legislative and regulatory developments in the region which may materially affect the company.
• Understands business objectives, practices yellow-zone decision making, thinks through the practical implications, and anticipates future business and legal needs

Who we are looking for:

• Licensed to practice law in the Philippines.
• At least 6-7 years of concentrated experience which demonstrate an in-depth knowledge and applied understanding of area of expertise; both in house and major law firm experience preferred.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, handle multiple, conflicting priorities while managing a substantial workload and client expectations.
• Experience of working successfully in a highly results-oriented and performance-driven environment with a focus on excellence.
• Robust interpersonal, networking, public speaking, and writing skills, with the confidence and credibility to act quickly, communicate effectively with diplomacy and civility, and command respect of both internal and external audiences.
• Proven ability to think strategically and exercise sound judgment.
• Ability to perform on projects and see them to successful completion in an organized, efficient, and effective manner.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary setting to achieve consensus.

What PMI offers:

We genuinely care about our people, and we show this through living out our Employee Brand each and every day. It is what connects every colleague in every market.

In addition to a competitive salary and benefits package, we offer a fantastic office environment and look to ensure you have the best work-life balance possible.

Our success depends on the people who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress

Join PMI and you too can:

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.
• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.
• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke free future.

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