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
a)    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 and support function for contract drafting, negotiation, risk identification, assessment and suggestion for mitigation 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.
•    Overseeing the administration of the Legal Department for the portal and contract management system.
b)    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

8 - 10 years 

Industry Preferred

Experience in manufacturing industry is preferred

Qualifications

Qualified lawyer – LLM/LLB

General Requirements

•    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.
•    Capability  of making solid recommendations and taking independent decisions
•    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
•    Ability to deal with high complexity and ambiguity and stakeholder management in a complex organization structure.
•    A ‘can do’ attitude with a readiness to ‘roll your sleeves up’ and get down to tackling and resolving issues and producing excellent outcomes.