Job Description
Posting Start Date:  6/26/26
Offer ID:  2376
Unit:  Limagrain Field Seeds AAP
Job Title:  Head of Legal & compliance APAC
Job Location:  Bangkok
Contract type:  Permanent
Job Description: 

Function

The BU seeks a Head of Legal, Compliance and Risk Management to act as the single point of contact with the Group Legal Department, lead legal activities for the BU, coordinate with HQ, and animate the local legal network across countries.

 

SEA Asia scope (local): Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Indonesia and, soon, Vietnam. The role directly handles legal and compliance matters in these countries.

 

BU scope: SEA, India and China.

The role coordinates and supervises legal and compliance matters in India and China.

Main Goal

Job description

Legal & Compliance Role (SEA)

  • Draft and review contracts (labor, purchasing, sales) and manage contract filing/reporting.
  • Monitor regulatory developments across SEA (e.g., BOI, FBA, labor, DOA).
  • Oversee IP registration and protection.

Regional Coordination & HQ Interface

  • Act as single point of contact with Legal HQ (legal, compliance, insurance, regulatory).
  • Provide SEA reporting, support global insurance rollout, and coordinate audits.

Additional Responsibilities

  • Support cross-functional and management projects.
  • Contribute to CSR and prepare annual compliance report.

Profile Requirements

  • Master’s in Business Law preferred; Thai national with strong English.
  • 10+ years legal/compliance experience.
  • Pragmatic, business-oriented, strong communicator; aligned with company values.
  • approximately 20% travel.

What we expect of you

Skills

Your benefits and working environment

Recruitment process

Information at a Glance

Limagrain Field Seeds, with its international multi-crop LG brand is the global Feld Seeds division of Group Limagrain. Limagrain Field Seeds covers all continents with subsidiaries in over 40 countries and sales in 77 countries. Limagrain Field Seeds supplies LG branded seeds of Maize, Wheat, Sunflower, Winter Rape and other regional crops to all farmers large or small. A strong commitment to progress through technology ensures that plant variety improvements arrive continually from 84 research sites and are adapted for maximum local performance.

Limagrain is a global company with deep local roots. Our parent company is an agricultural cooperative based in the Limagne-Val d’Allier plain, in the heart of Central France’s Auvergne region, while we are an international seed and agri-food group with some 9,600 employees working in 53 countries. As the 4th largest seed company in the world, we achieved sales of 2.522 billion euros in 2023-2024, with additional sales of 729 million euros from activities carried out in collaboration with our strategic partners.