Position Name- Senior Manager- Legal Business Partner
Role Mandate:
Drive real estate strategy, enable asset monetisation, ensure title integrity, and act as a strong commercial legal partner to CRES (Corporate Real Estate Services) and leadership. Additionally, lead the legal management of Diageo's India admin portfolio.
Location: Bengaluru
Experience: 6-9 Years PQE
Qualification: LLB/LLM
Key Accountabilities:
Asset Strategy & Title Risk
- Review portfolio with CRES and identify non-core assets for monetisation.
- Lead title due diligence and drive end-to-end title perfection.
- Identify regulatory and structural risks, design and execute mitigation plans.
- Develop robust business cases (sale/ lease/ redevelopment).
- Prepare Board-ready presentations aligned to portfolio strategy and monetisation roadmap.
- Maintain audit-ready property documentation and governance discipline.
Transactions & Lease Leadership
- Lead drafting, negotiation and execution of sale deeds, leases, LOIs, renewals, amendments and exits.
- Structure commercially sound, risk-balanced real estate transactions.
- Oversee lease lifecycle governance and milestone tracking.
- Proactively anticipate and mitigate contractual and execution risks.
Diageo Admin Portfolio (Pan-India)
- Lead drafting, negotiation, renewal and execution of office space agreements across India.
- Manage and execute facility management agreements and related vendor contracts.
- Negotiate and manage travel-related agreements including airlines, hotels and corporate travel partners.
Disputes & Regulatory Interface
- Lead and manage quasi-judicial and regulatory proceedings concerning non-core assets.
- Develop mitigation strategies and closure plans to drive timely resolution of litigation.
- Liaise with local counsel and manage external advisors effectively.
- Coordinate with relevant internal teams to maintain end-to-end visibility and strategic oversight of ongoing matters.
Business Partnering & Compliance
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadershipbalancing risk with commercial outcomes.
- Mitigate exposure across ABC (anti- bribery and corruption) frameworks.
- Standardise templates, processes and contracting playbooks.
- Influence senior stakeholders and manage multi-region projects.
Diversity statement
Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is core to Diageo's purpose of celebrating life every day everywhere. This purpose is, in itself, inclusive in nature, as it values everybody irrespective of background, disability, religion, gender identity, sexuality or ethnicity.
We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills, and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.
