Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

The key expectation from the role is to act as in-house counsel delivering high quality, comprehensive, authoritative legal service. Key responsibilities include

1. Partnering with Business for Legal Services

• Providing a comprehensive and high quality in-house legal service, across a broad range of legal issues to internal customers within the organization
• Expertise in contract drafting, negotiation, risk identification, assessment and suggestion for mitigation and closure.
• Modification and negotiation of contracts and leading in managing and resolving contractual disputes and other contentious issues.

2. Proactive engagement with business teams

• Understand the spoken and unspoken needs and provide timely advice.
• Identification of the issues while advising and then introducing processes and monitoring mechanism.
• Developing and implementing best practices from other similar industries
• Monitoring and supervising the implementation of the best practices such as standardisation of templates, conducting awareness sessions for the business etc.

Experience

Experience of working as a legal practitioner for 6 to 8 years.

Industry Preferred

Experience in manufacturing industry is preferred

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer – LLM/LLB

General Requirements

• Excellent legal skills for drafting and negotiating contracts and strategic management of contractual disputes.

• Capability of detailed, in-depth analysis of commercial contracts and preparing risk matrix/analysis.
• Collaborative, agile and bold and having capability of making solid recommendations
• Ability to turn around enquiries quickly and tackle issues at short notice.
• Excellent written and oral communications, including the ability to work effectively with a range of people and the ability to deliver advice in a clear and user-friendly way.
• High attention to detail and conveying it in a clear and concise fashion to all levels of the organization.
• High influencing and negotiation skills