Manager - Group Legal (FES)

Duties and Responsibilities

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
• Ensuring all customer activities are in line with legal requirements and meets specifications within the organization and risks are mitigated appropriately.
• Developing and maintaining excellent relationships with internal customers (business leaders),
• Promoting the value of the legal function support for contract drafting, negotiation and closure.
• Preparation and negotiation of contracts, and leading in managing and resolving contractual disputes and other contentious issues, to a satisfactory conclusion, if they occur.

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 the documents, awareness sessions etc.

Skills Required

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

• Capability of detailed, in-depth analysis of legal documents and of work situations that have a legal dimension.
• 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 influencing and negotiation skills
• A ‘can do’ attitude with a readiness to ‘roll your sleeves up’ and get down to tackling and resolving issues and producing excellent outcomes.

Education and Experience

        Essential

• Qualified lawyer – LLM/LLB
• Experience of working as a legal practitioner for 6 to 8 years. Preferred experience in manufacturing industry

       Desirable

• Experience as an in-house lawyer or similar position.
• Sound working knowledge of Indian business environment and related legalities.