Head of Legal Corporate Support to Perstorp Group

Perstorp believes in improving everyday life – making it safer, more convenient and more environmentally sound for billions of people all over the world. As a world-leading specialty chemicals company, our innovations provide essential properties for products used every day and everywhere. You´ll find us all the way from your car and mobile phone to towering wind turbines and the local dairy farm. Simply put, we work to make good products even better, with a clear sustainability agenda.

We are now looking for a Head of Legal Corporate Support with focus on GRC and project support to join our head office in Malmö.

About the role

In the role as Head of Legal Corporate Support, you will be responsible for Governance, Risk Management and Compliance as well as providing legal support to internal investment and growth projects and M&A transactions. The legal function is led by VP Head of Legal Department, to whom you will report, and consists of seven legal counsels and one assistant. The function is divided into three different departments, and you will be responsible for the department Legal Corporate Support. You will be responsible for the department on Group level and assist and advice VP Head of Legal Department, units and functions and Group Companies within Perstorp (both Swedish and foreign subsidiaries) as well as PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad´s wholly-owned subsidiary BRB International BV. Currently, the role does not have any direct reports, but it may do so in the future as the legal function expands.

The primary compliance areas that you will work with include anti-bribery and corruption, competition law, data privacy, sanctions and export control. When leading internal projects and M&A transactions you will work closely with both internal legal counsels as well as external law firms.

It is a varied and dynamic role which encompasses the following responsibilities:

• To Independently develop, implement and maintain Perstorp Group processes within Governance, Risk Management and Compliance on a global basis;

• Provide advice, make risk assessments and handle internal reporting, including quarterly Legal risk reporting process;

• Evaluate and develop tools and methods for online database screening and monitoring of business partners;

• Conduct due diligence investigations on high-risk business partners;

• Monitor the legislative and regulatory development within GRC;

• Identify and evaluate risks as well as investigate incidents;

• Safeguard continuous improvement with implementation of "best practices";

• Act as the project leader for the legal workstream in internal projects and M&A transactions, from inception to completion. This includes responsibility for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating all project/transaction documents, collaborating with internal and external legal advisors and, when applicable, coordinating and overseeing the due diligence process, etc.; and

• Raise awareness, develop and provide internal training, including administration of intra-Group online training program.

You will work from our head office which is located in the city center of Malmö, next to the train station.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a qualified lawyer with a Master of Laws (LL.M) and around 10 years of experience from an international group of companies or reputable law firm. You have solid experience of driving governance, risk management and compliance processes as well as experience from leading larger investment projects and M&A transactions. You have excellent language skills in English.

To be successful in this role you must be an analytical, solution-oriented, and business-minded person with a high work capacity. You have a high level of integrity and are confident in your competence and decision-making. Furthermore, you have excellent communication skills and a great ability to work in a group.

What we offer you

You are offered a varied and exciting position where you will play a key role in our work with securing compliance and developing and implementing processes and routines within GRC. You will also be part in helping us to secure our growth. At Perstorp you have room to grow, challenge and learn. Thanks to our global presence, you have the opportunity to work with cross-functional teams and connect with people across the globe. Although we have operations in many different countries, we are still considered a small company, which means that each employee can make a real difference.

About Perstorp Group

Founded in Sweden in 1881, Perstorp´s focused innovation builds on more than 140 years of experience, representing a complete chain of solutions in organic chemistry, process technology and application development. Perstorp has approximately 1,500 employees and manufacturing units in Asia, Europe and North America. Sales in 2023 amounted to 12.2 billion SEK. Perstorp is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PETRONAS Chemicals Group Berhad (PCG), Malaysia´s leading integrated chemicals provider and part of PETRONAS Group.

Learn more at www.perstorp.com 

Contact and Application

In this recruitment process, Perstorp Group is supported by Jurek Recruitment & Consulting. Please apply via www.jurek.se. Kindly note that we do not accept applications by email.

For any questions, please contact Recruitment Consultant Linn Marthinussen by phone 076-002 69 41, or by email at linn.marthinussen@jurek.se