Position:

Legal Shared Services Manager, Employment (China)

Job Description:

This role oversees centralized legal administrative functions, optimizing workflows, implementing legal technology (e.g., intake, automation), and supporting legal staff to provide efficient support across business units throughout the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, with a strong emphasis on Mainland China.  The role will operate out of the Company’s Shanghai Office. This role requires expertise in legal operations, process improvement, and stakeholder management to drive cost savings and high-value service delivery. 

What You’ll Be Doing

• Operational Leadership: Manage day-to-day operations of the legal shared services team, ensuring timely and efficient delivery of legal services to internal clients.
• Legal Support Scope: Support the primary legal contact for employment matters in Mainland China.  Research and track complex and evolving labor laws and regulatory landscape in the country.  Assist with facilitating legal counsel support for employment law advice and compliance in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
• Templates and forms: Work with attorneys to draft templates, correspondence, reports, and other legal memoranda.
• Process Improvement & Automation: Identify, develop, and implement workflow automation and legal technology solutions to support global tracking and integration of shared legal templates, legal investigation notes and reports, and other shared legal tasks.
• Compliance & Risk Management: Support legal services with implementing and tracking updates to company policies and practices based on applicable legal regulations and industry standards.
• Training. Support legal team with scheduling and organizing training for business units.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal business units, acting as a liaison to ensure service alignment.
• KPI Tracking: Establish and monitor performance metrics (KPIs) to evaluate and improve service efficiency. 

What We Are Looking For

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Law or a related business field.
• Experience: 5+ years of experience in legal and/or human resource operations, shared services, or similar management roles, preferably within a multinational firm in APAC.
• Language: Business-level fluency in Mandarin (verbal and written) and English; additional Asian language skills are a plus
• Skills: Strong knowledge of legal processes, document management, and compliance across various APAC jurisdictions.
• Technology: Proficiency in legal technology (e.g., Navex, Practical Law, etc.)

Key Competencies

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset with strong project management capability.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-cultural environment. 

What’s In It For You

At Arrow, we recognize that financial rewards and great benefits are important aspects of an ideal job. That’s why we offer competitive financial compensation, including various compensation plans, and a solid benefits package.

• Medical Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Performance Bonus
• Paid Time Off
• Special/Extra Leave
• 5-Day Work Week
• Growth Opportunities
• And more!

 

About Arrow

Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: ARW), an award-winning Fortune 154 and one of Fortune Magazine’s Most Admired Companies. Arrow guides innovation forward for over 220,000 leading technology manufacturers and service providers. With 2024 sales of USD $27.9 billion, Arrow develops technology solutions that improve business and daily life. Our broad portfolio that spans the entire technology landscape helps customers create, make and manage forward-thinking products that make the benefits of technology accessible to as many people as possible. Learn more at www.arrow.com.

Our strategic direction of guiding innovation forward is expressed as Five Years Out, a way of thinking about the tangible future to bridge the gap between what's possible and the practical technologies to make it happen. Learn more at https://www.fiveyearsout.com/. 

For more job opportunities, please visit https://careers.arrow.com/us/en.

Location:

CN-Shanghai, China (Raffles City The Bund)

Time Type:

Full time

Job Category:

Legal