Job Title: Manager Legal (Non-Property)
Job Purpose:
- To be a part of the core legal department.
- Provide legal advice and assistance to all verticals of the business in India.
- Drafting and negotiating legal agreements and documents.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to align to the project timelines.
- Highlight legal risks.
Key Deliverables (Essential functions & Responsibilities of the Job):
- Reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a broad range of agreements, vendor contracts, warehousing, IT, appointment contracts, services agreements, procurement, subcontracts, indemnity bonds, confidentiality agreements and consultancy agreements.
- General Legal Advice - Reviewing of marketing material, Terms of Use, policies including for online business, SOPs, terms of various promotions and contests.
- Handling litigation, liaising with outside counsels for the same and providing supporting documents from internal stakeholders.
- Regulatory Governance - Updating business of changes in applicable laws and ensuring implementation of required changes.
- Ensuring legal compliance under all applicable law including, companies Act, legal metrology, FDI, E-commerce, drugs and cosmetics, BIS and environmental laws.
- Supporting business on special projects.
- Preparing and maintaining various MIS/trackers.
- Supporting functional automation projects and contract lifecycle management of legal documents.
- Work closely with the business, and other corporate functions, on a daily basis, in understanding the business & commercial requirements when considering legal terms & conditions.
- Supporting business for providing options on agreements and statutory provisions.
- Tracking statutory changes and implementation of new laws.
- Responsible for Replying to notices and/or drafting of notices to vendors, developers, statutory authorities and customer.
Key Skills:
- Possess a very good understanding of commercial and contract terms
- Possess a good understanding of the compliance issues facing international listed companies
- Maintain a creative and pragmatic approach to problem-solving.
- Be able to work as part of a team, but also able to work independently and take the lead when necessary
- Prioritise good client relations and flexibility.
- Be well-organized, hard-working and able to meet challenging deadlines
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Qualification:
- Should be registered to practice law in India, with at least 8-10 years PQE.
- Experience as in-house counsel in retail/similar industry or law firm preferred.
- Be fluent in reading, writing and communicating in English.
