Senior Legal Counsel, APAC

🚀 Why Join HARTING Now?

HARTING is at one of the most exciting points in its 80+ year history. With €1.1 billion in revenue and a record global sales growth in FY2024/2025, the company is scaling fast — and Asia-Pacific is leading the charge with double digits year-on-year growth. HARTING is heavily investing in FY2026 into new technologies, capacity expansion, and the "Factory of the Future" initiative.

Beyond our core industrial connectivity solutions, HARTING is expanding into some of the fastest-growing sectors of the decade — including data centre infrastructure, AI-enabled industrial systems, and next-generation energy grids. As a Senior Legal Counsel in this environment, you won't just be reviewing contracts — you'll be shaping the legal framework for a business that is redefining how industries connect, power, and transform.

If you're looking for a role where growth is real, the work is strategic, and you can make a genuine regional impact within a people-first, family-owned global enterprise — this is it.

Job Description

The Senior Legal Counsel, APAC advises and provides comprehensive legal support to the HARTING Technology Group's regional headquarters, subsidiaries and manufacturing plants across the Asia-Pacific region in contractual, judicial, and other legal matters. The Senior Legal Counsel will report to the Managing Director & CoRM APAC (direct) and the Vice President, Global Corporate Legal Services (functional).

As a Senior team member, the role leads significant projects and specialized areas of work, applying advanced expertise to drive improvement and innovation. The position operates within a matrix structure, ensuring alignment of regional legal practices with group-wide standards and governance frameworks set by global headquarters. The role is based in Singapore with regional travel required.

Job Responsibilities:

The incumbent will handle the following duties, not limited to:

• Review, analyse, negotiate, and draft commercial contracts across the APAC region, including sales, supply, procurement, distribution and business agreements.
• Advise regional business units and subsidiaries on contractual rights, obligations, and interpretation of contract terms.
• Provide legal counsel on corporate, commercial, employment, IP, technology transfer, insolvency, antitrust, competition, sanctions and AI-related matters.
• Monitor regulatory changes across key APAC markets, conduct risk assessments, and develop mitigation strategies; advise leadership on potential legal impacts and emerging developments.
• Support the development and implementation of corporate policies, systems, procedures, and best practices for contract lifecycle management, ensuring alignment of regional legal practices with group-wide standards, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Independently manage and resolve legal cases, and liaise with external counsel, regulatory bodies, and internal stakeholders on disputes and legal matters.
• Oversee legal documentation across APAC markets, including governmental inquiries, licensing requirements, and jurisdictional compliance obligations.
• Act as the subject matter expert on commercial legal matters, providing training and developing internal legal SOPs and guidelines across APAC entities.

Qualifications:

• Law degree (LLB or equivalent) required; admission to the bar in Singapore or another jurisdiction is an advantage.
• Minimum 8-10+ years of post-qualification legal experience with ideally a mix of law firm and significant in-house experience with a multinational company and demonstrated experience of legal frameworks across key APAC markets (in particular China, but also India, ASEAN, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Australia).
• Experience ideally gained within an international, product-based organisation in a similar or related industry (manufacturing/engineering/electrical/industrial), operating within a highly matrixed, multi-jurisdictional environment. Understanding of civil law systems is an advantage given the German group context.
• Extensive knowledge of commercial contract and corporate law; intellectual property and copyright law; technology transfer and insolvency law; antitrust and competition law; employment law; AI and emerging technology law. Working knowledge of data protection, product liability, public commercial law, administrative law, commercial criminal law and technical/standards regulations.
• Business acumen, with the demonstrated ability to balance business needs and legal risks.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently and effectively in dynamic, cross-border business environments, with strong project management skills and a hands-on, adaptable approach when required.
• Demonstrated experience of using AI and Legal Technology in daily work
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint); basic knowledge of SAP.
• Business-fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese (both required) with excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, to better support Chinese-speaking markets; additional regional language proficiency (Japanese or Korean) is an advantage.
• Experience working directly with senior management/C-suite.
• Willingness to travel within the Asia Pacific region.