Counsel, Legal, Global Trade Regulation, China
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Description and Requirements
Position Overview
Lead a small team to provide trade legal support to Global Supply Chain (GSC) and manufacturing plants, Vehicle Computing (VC) and Chief Technology Office (CTO) organization in China.
Position Description
- Support compliance-related initiatives pertaining to Lenovo and its affiliates, including but not limited to developing and implementing trade compliance controls, and conducting compliance risk assessments.
- Assist to provide tariff legal advisory to GSC and manufacturing plants in China.
- Provide export control, sanctions, and relevant trade legal support to VC and CTO.
- Provide business with regulatory updates relating to trade and sanctions and conduct impact analysis on business operations.
- Provide IT recommendations on how to automate compliance checking and streamline processes.
Position Requirement
- Knowledgeable of tariff requirements and export control laws of U.S. and mainland China.
- Ability and willingness to proactively identifies and solves complex problems, thinking beyond existing solutions and frameworks.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to explain and present complex legal advice for senior executives, and ability to gain the trust of business stakeholders to achieve a desired objective.
- Ability to deliver outstanding written work-product quality.
Job Requirement - Prior Work Experience
- 8 years of work experience in legal/compliance area, with a minimum of 6 years of experience in advising multinational businesses on trade compliance and export control matters.
- ITC industry experience is required.
- Law firm or Consulting Firm experience is a plus but not a must.
- Fluency in Mandarin and English.
Educational Requirement:
Juris Doctor (JD) in U.S or other common law jurisdictions or a Law Degree in China with a LLM in common law jurisdictions.