Legal Lead Counsel

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and manage the Hyderabad legal team, including mentoring and supervising team members, while aligning legal strategies with organizational goals.

• Provide pragmatic, commercial, and strategic legal advice to the Hyderabad Leadership Team. • Support and advise on all employment law matters.

• Draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts and advise on all related matters.

• Advise and support on all other legal matters arising in Hyderabad, including litigation, IP, governance etc.

• Anticipate and respond to new legislation, with the ability to digest, summarise and succinctly communicate how new legal and regulatory developments will affect the business. Evaluate and weigh multiple inputs and impacts of strategic and commercial decisions and the legal implications that arise.

• Where relevant, aid in the development and automation of processes to scale efficiencies.

• Manage external legal resource to ensure a comprehensive and cost-efficient legal support to all areas of the business.

• Build rapport with, and function as a trusted advisor to, key stakeholders including global stakeholders, the leadership teams, and broader teams in Hyderabad.

• Develop strong and trusted relationships with peers on the Global Legal Team and legal teams in the other hub locations, sharing best practice

TO EXCEL IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL NEED TO HAVE

• We're looking for a qualified lawyer with 8+ year post-qualification experience, and a desire to understand business and be part of the team. You should have solid experience, preferably with an international element in a technology driven sector, in areas such as commercial contracts, IP, employment law and litigation.

• A demonstrable track record of successfully advising sizable businesses on a diverse range of complex legal matters in a highly dynamic and fast-paced organisation.

• Proven confidence and maturity to effectively deal with complex and challenging situations.

• We typically look for people with experience at multinational organisations or highly regarded law firms with experience as an in-house lawyer, either on a client secondment or permanent role. We value our people and culture highly, so a suitable candidate must be an outstanding communicator and be great with people.

• The candidate will also need to show an ability to translate complex legal regulatory requirements and articulate pros and cons of solutions without losing commercial focus and be capable of challenging senior business stakeholders.

• Being a self-starter and having the confidence to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment and to manage a varied workload will be essential.

• Extensive experience of internal and external stakeholder management. Previous experience of managing a team is a plus.