In-House Commercial Contracts Counsel – Negotiation Focus

MKS PAMP; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

MKS PAMP in Kuala Lumpur invites a motivated Legal Officer specialising in commercial contracts to join our team. The role focuses on providing practical, business-oriented legal support across commercial agreements, ensuring alignment with policy and regulatory requirements.

The successful candidate will draft and negotiate a broad range of contracts, maintain templates, and collaborate with Finance, Operations, Compliance, ESG, and other groups to manage deadlines and risks effectively.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with expertise in English Common Law and HK and/or Malaysian law.
• 3–5 years of post-qualification legal experience, ideally in-house or multinational.
• Experience drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and providing legal advice on a broad range of commercial contracts.
• Experience in commodities or trading industry is desirable.
• Fluency in English and Mandarin.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and support the negotiation of a broad range of commercial contracts including refining, sale and purchase, trading and financing, IT, and marketing agreements.
• Provide clear, practical, business-oriented legal advice on rights, obligations and risk exposure.
• Maintain and update contract templates and contribute to standardisation of processes.
• Collaborate with Finance, Operations, Compliance, ESG and other functions across the Group.
• Support contract management activities, including databases, key terms, milestones and archiving.

Skills

Contract drafting

Contract review

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

English language

Mandarin language

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Legal qualification

Job description

MKS PAMP in Kuala Lumpur invites a motivated Legal Officer specialising in commercial contracts to join our team. The role focuses on providing practical, business-oriented legal support across commercial agreements, ensuring alignment with policy and regulatory requirements.

The successful candidate will draft and negotiate a broad range of contracts, maintain templates, and collaborate with Finance, Operations, Compliance, ESG, and other groups to manage deadlines and risks effectively.