Applied Materials Country Legal Head VI - B6 

Taiwan, Hsinchu 

120133913

Key Responsibilities

• Represent the Legal department as a member of the Taiwan Executive Leadership Team, assessing legal risks affecting AMT as well as advising and supporting the organization in mitigating risks.
• Provide legal advice and counsel to AMT’s country president, executives and other employees.
• Identify emerging legal and regulatory risks and trends to proactively advise/influence strategic decision-making.
• Serve as key point of contact to AMT leadership and management team for all AMT legal matters.
• Partner with cross-functional colleagues to shape policy and regulatory framework and drive the continued analysis of laws to ensure alignment with compliance policies and procedures.
• Provide day-to-day legal support to operations of various functions, including procurement, real estate, environmental health and safety, logistics & quality.
• Manage and provide legal support for various commercial transactions, including hardware, software and service sales. Draft, review and negotiate various commercial contracts and documents.
• Provide legal advice and prepare or review labor or HR related agreements or documents.
• Support trade compliance matters as well as manage litigation, arbitration and other disputes, in collaboration with subject matter experts and cross-functional colleagues.
• Provide guidance on intellectual property matters.
• Manage and support subsidiary governance, establishment and consolidations.
• Proactively and strategically manage outside counsel and legal expenses.
• Establish and manage administrative processes in a timely and efficient manner. (Contract Lifecycle Management systems, approval databases, etc.)

Qualification

• Highly adept at working effectively and collaboratively in a heavily matrixed organization.
• Ability to partner closely with business clients to achieve results and resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Able to communicate and present issues and proposals in a clear, concise and direct manner.
• Strong emotional intelligence (EQ) with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization and customer base.
• Experienced and proficient at drafting & negotiating a wide variety of contracts and working with business teams to close deals.
• Strong sense of teamwork, accountability, ownership and mentorship.
• Excellent people and project management skills.
• Passionate about making an impact through strategy, process improvement and change management.
• Fluency in oral and written Chinese and English – including legal and business terms.
• Can-do attitude, sense of humor and willingness to learn.

Education and Experience

• Holds a bachelor or master degree in law from a recognized university; JD degree will be preferred; with Taiwan bar admission or US bar admission
• Work experiences (15+ years) in multinational law firms / Top Taiwan Law firms / in-house legal departments of multinational corporations in High Tech. industry, semiconductor preferred.
• Extensive knowledge of Taiwan legal legislation, framework and practice.
• Application of Taiwan legal skills in a multinational, in-house environment.
• General experience in commercial contracts (including drafting, redlining and negotiating)litigation/arbitration,IP issues and management of business risks.