General Counsel

Vedanta, a future-focused and growth-oriented company is a fully integrated producer of Zinc – Silver - Lead, Oil & Gas, Aluminium, Power, Iron Ore & Steel, Copper, Nickel, Cobalt, Ferro-chrome and Manganese, with a fast-growing metal recycling capacity, and a broad range of critical minerals. We are a dominant player in power generation, transmission, renewable energy solutions, optical fibre, display glass and soon semiconductors. With our world class, low-cost and long-life assets, Vedanta contributes 1.4% towards India’s GDP.

Hindustan Zinc Limited, a Vedanta Group company, is the world’s largest integrated zinc producer and is amongst the top 5 silver producers globally. The company supplies to more than 40 countries and holds a market share of about 77% of the primary zinc market in India. We are implementing high-impact projects across our business locations to enhance volume and reduce cost as part of our growth capex agenda. With a strong leadership position in the domestic market and our growing global presence, our focus is set on expanding the production capacity to harness the unfolding demand opportunity. As we march together towards our core vision of Transforming for Good, we have an exciting opportunity for transformational leaders to join us and accelerate our growth journey.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Play a pivotal role as key legal counsel for the business and oversee all legal aspects related to compliance, due diligence, contract negotiations, agreements, litigations and advocacy matters to ensure smooth, uninterrupted flow of business operations.
• Ensuring effective leadership on all legal matters including the development and implementation of legal risk management practices and compliance framework.
• Proactively work towards mitigating risks emerging from possible legal recourse sought by Customers, Contractors, Subcontractors, employees and other outsourced partners.
• Support, monitor and report status of all regulatory compliance to the management and board.
• Ensure awareness of line managers on all legal compliances required to be maintained through training, periodic information dissemination and counsel
• Thorough knowledge on Indian Legal System, superior leadership skills with rich experience in litigation.