JD - Zonal Legal Manager - KMPL - Support Services-Legal
Also find the job description and desired candidate profile as mentioned below.
Desired Grade: M5 (AVP)
Base Location: Mumbai
Experience:7 years & Above
Job Responsibilities:
- Filing and attending arbitration proceedings, civil and criminal cases, including Sec. 138 NI Act matters.
- Handling cases related to economic offences, Consumer Forum, Recovery and Service matters.
- Minimizing litigation against the Company through proactive legal strategies.
- Obtaining interim orders under Sections 9 & 17 of the Arbitration & Conciliation Act, including property attachment orders.
- Coordinating with police stations, courts and advocates offices for cases followup.
- Travelling to branch locations across the Western region for legal initiation, review and audits.
- Issuing legal notices to defaulters and drafting replies to notices received by the Company.
- Maintaining case records, documentation and MIS of litigation and arbitration matters.
Desired Candidate Profile:
- Minimum 7 years of experience in the legal field, preferably as a corporate lawyer or in litigation/recovery-related roles.
- Ability and willingness to independently manage legal operations across the entire West Zone.
- Provide legal support to Collections, Customer Care, and other internal departments, ensuring timely and accurate legal guidance.
- Strong expertise in legal drafting, including petitions, replies, notices, and other legal documents.
- Thorough knowledge of Arbitration, Section 138 matters under the Negotiable Instruments Act, police complaints, consumer disputes, execution petitions, NCLT proceedings, and windingup petitions.
- Knowledge in Arbitration Act, NI Act, CPC, BNS, BNSS, Consumer laws, NCLT, recovery laws.
- Educational Qualification: LL.B. (mandatory), higher legal qualifications will be an added advantage.
- Excellent communication, coordination, stakeholdermanagement and Strong drafting, negotiation, analytical abilities skills.
- Ability to travel, handle fieldlevel legal activities and manage external legal partners/vendors effectively.
- Assertive, detailoriented, able to handle high-volume cases.
- Willingness to travel, proficiency in MS Office and legal documentation tools.
