[ref. k69963502] Corporate Legal Counsel

Make a difference and advance your career with Chong Hua Hospital, the Philippines' premier healthcare destination!?✨

S/He serves as a resource person to senior management and physicians; offers counsel on legal issues, guarantees legal compliance in the institution and limits risk exposure. Additionally, s/he aligns and improves the culture of the Corporate Affairs Division’s services and organizes its structure to support the hospital’s core purpose.

• Provides expert and strategic legal advice to management
• Anticipates issues and estimate risks strategically
• Sets internal governance policies and manage the impact of external factors.
• Keeps abreast of legislative changes.
• Communicate and negotiate with external parties (regulators, external counsel, politicians, clients).
• Collaborate with management to devise efficient defense strategies.
• Liaise with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken
• Provide legal protection and risk management advice to management.
• Review ongoing cases and advice management accordingly.
• Review and advise management on legal implications of internal policies and procedures.
• Review progress of outstanding litigation and liaise with and manage external lawyers.
• Continuously monitor compliance with statutory obligations and advise management accordingly.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly reports for the department for executive management meetings.
• Responsible for the review and streamlining of processes and policies to continuously improve the quality of service in the department.
• Leads or directs the team or creates functional team to identify performance gaps and formulate strategic interventions to continuously improve on identified areas for improvement, when required
• Oversees the development and placement of safety strategies and continuous quality improvement of service initiatives in the department.
• Participates in the planning and implementation of performance management program and in communicating this with different department leaders.
• Monitors the compliance of employee movement and regularization through collaboration with other HR leaders; ensures that all rewards related to employee movement and regularization are communicated and implemented by the respective department/section/ unit leader.
• Mentors and/or trains the junior leaders to ensure proper cascading and/or learning of technical know-how and soft skills that contribute to the achievement organization’s strategic objectives.
• Oversees the development and placement of safety strategies and continuous quality improvement of service initiatives in the department.

• BS degree in Law or J.D. degree; MA or BS in Business Administration, is an advantage.
• With at least 12 years of relevant work experience and at least 5 years in managerial or leadership role.
• Healthcare industry experience is a plus.
• Overall broad legal knowledge (corporate law, litigations, labor law, etc)
• Well-versed in business operations with financial acumen.
• Ability to develop legal strategy and objectives.
• Excellent analytical, research and negotiation skill.
• Ability to provide independent advice to management on highly technical matters; to anticipate legal issues or risks and to “see around the corner”.
• Possesses leadership qualities to aid in building, maintaining, and elevating relationships with Chong Hua Hospital internal and external stakeholders and drive the achievement of business strategies and results.
• Demonstrated understanding of basic corporate office software, including Microsoft Office 365 applications.
• Excellent communication skills. Proficiency in the Visayan dialect and/or Tagalog is required.