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About the Role

As Legal Counsel, you will be the key legal business partner for Red Bull Japan, supporting the local management team in identifying, managing, and mitigating legal risks across a fast-paced, entrepreneurial business. You will work closely with the APAC Area Legal Counsel and global legal teams, providing practical, commercial, and solution-oriented legal advice aligned with global guidelines, local regulations, and Red Bull values. This role suits an experienced general commercial lawyer who enjoys variety, autonomy, and working closely with the business. Both Bengoshi and Gaiben will be considered.

Responsibilities

• Acts as the primary legal advisor for all general commercial legal matters in Japan, working closely with the local management team and APAC Legal Business Partners.
• Manages legal matters directly and engages internal or external legal resources when required.
• Provides proactive, practical, and strategic legal guidance to identify and mitigate legal risks arising from commercial activities, protecting Red Bull Japan’s business interests.
• Partners closely with the business to ensure appropriate commercial agreements are in place with key service providers, customers, and third parties.
• Ensures business activities, particularly in events, marketing, and sales, comply with applicable laws and regulations.
• Provides timely and accurate information on legal matters to APAC Area Legal Counsel.
• Acts as a first point of contact for the Red Bull Japan business for all legal matters.
• Connects the Red Bull Japan business with legal department contacts in specialist departments as needed.
• Supports the business team in Japan to locate, identify and complete the right template agreements.
• Trains new employees on the use of templates and importance of contract management.
• Identifies and develops (bi-lingual) template agreements where they may be lacking, and arranges for these to be created for use for the business and uploaded to the contract creator system.
• Identifies and develops legal service initiatives/Legal Operations projects that increase the effectiveness of delivery of legal services to the business.
• Conducts ongoing review and development of template agreements and other self-service initiatives for the business to access legal services.
• Effectively utilizes the department’s established document and matter management systems.
• Prepares accurate and timely reports, legal advice and other legal documents including confidential correspondence, agreements, templates/forms, meeting minutes, presentations etc in both English and Japanese as appropriate.
• Marks up (track changes) documents.
• Translates legal documents for internal review and also execution.
• Provides translation and interpreter services at meetings, negotiations and other legal proceedings.
• Works alongside the Area Legal Counsel APAC in selecting and working with external service providers within Japan and management of associated budget.
• Develops and/or rolls out Legal internal training programs.
• Provides trainings, introduces new tools and processes and coordinates projects.
• Supports Leadership Team (or business) members in management of legal "projects" within the Red Bull Japan organization.

Requirements

• 5 (five years) minimum Post-Qualification Experience (PQE) with in-house experience highly regarded.
• Experience in commercial law (contracts, compliance, antitrust etc) ideally in the FMCG industry.
• Exposure to media, sports, or entertainment law would also be well regarded.
• International experience will hold an advantage.
• Ability to manage a diverse group of internal stakeholders based around the world.
• You will play an important role as link between Red Bull Japan and the international (Asia Pacific and HQ) Legal team.
• You are flexible and a team player plus are able to work towards deadlines.
• You are accurate and thorough.
• Excellent written and spoken (English and Japanese) communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work autonomously and effectively with both legal and business personnel.
• Ability to meet demanding deadlines without sacrificing the quality of work product.
• Self-starter with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects in a high volume, fast-paced environment.
• Strong prioritising, time management and organisational skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Outlook skills and proficient touch typist.
• Strong oral and written communication skills (excellent grammar, spelling and attention to detail) and excellent listening skills.
• Ability to influence others and hold people to set guidelines/processes.
• Ability to work in an environment where some of your communication is with individuals based overseas (and in English).
• Professional presentation, proactive, self-motivated, energetic, positive, easy-going, personable.
• Team player with strong cultural sensitivity, high integrity, and a results‑oriented mindset, who remains calm under pressure and is inquisitive, open‑minded, eager to learn, and flexible in adapting to change.

Skills

• Commercial law
• Contracts
• Compliance
• Antitrust
• Media law
• Sports law
• Entertainment law
• English
• Japanese
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Powerpoint
• Microsoft Outlook
• Touch typing
• Translation
• Interpretation

Location

• Tokyo, Japan

Work Type

• Permanent
• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• 5+ years Post-Qualification Experience (PQE)

Salary/Compensations

• Determined by experience and skills

Benefits

• Defined Contribution Plan (6.5% of monthly base salary contributed by the company)
• Group life insurance
• Group medical insurance
• Long-term disability insurance (income security)
• Benefit One
• Maximum of 20 days of annual leave (pro-rated based on joining month)
• Staff discount for Red Bull and AlphaTauri apparel

About the Company

• At Red Bull, we give wiiings to people and ideas.