Manager CS & Legal

Role Overview/ Job Purpose

The Candidate will oversee all secretarial and legal functions, ensuring compliance with applicable laws, mitigating risks, and supporting the business in achieving its strategic goals.

This role requires a seasoned professional to manage contracts, litigation, regulatory compliance, labour laws, POSH (Prevention of Sexual Harassment), and employee grievances while providing strategic advice to leadership teams and upholding the company's values and vision.

Key Responsibilities

1.

a. Corporate matters such as preparing agendas and convene board meetings, committees, and annual general meetings (AGMs/EGMs), take minutes, draft resolutions, and lodge required forms and annual returns with appropriate departments, maintain statutory books, including registers of members, directors, paying dividends to shareholders.

b. Internal compliances as per Indian Company Laws, FEMA Laws, HR laws.

c. Liaise with external regulators and advisers such as lawyers, consultants and auditors.

d. Develop and oversee the systems that ensure the company comply with all applicable codes, in addition to its legal and statutory requirements.

e. Monitor changes in legislation and advise the organization on necessary adaptations.

f. Advise the board and senior management on governance practices ensuring good corporate governance practices in the Company.

2.

a. Manage contractual agreements with suppliers and customers including drafting, vetting and negotiations of agreements and addendums/amendments.

b. Capable of using & understanding CLM software for management of contract lifecycle.

c. Hands-on experience of front-leading contract negotiations with customers & vendors vis--vis applicable laws and company policies.

d. Coordinate internal stakeholders for assisting in drafting of inter-company agreements, policies and procedures, maintain SOPs and trackers.

3.

a. Litigation Management includes coordination with onboard lawyers, maintaining MIS, providing updates to Management and highlighting criticality, whenever required.

Desired Skills, Experience and Required Qualification

Desired Skills

Experience

Required Qualification

1. Highly effective verbal and written communication skills with the ability to negotiate, persuade and influence.

2. Holding Reading Comprehension skills.

3. Meticulously observant & analytical thinking.

4. Time-Management.

5. Effective Email writing.

6. Holds good knowledge of Microsoft office, especially, word/PowerPoint.

7. Able to build and maintain effective external professional networks

1. Minimum 10-15 years of experience of leading a legal & CS department, preferably, with at least 5 years in a leadership position.

2. Extensive experience of litigation and handling major non-contentious commercial transactions.

3. Experience, or knowledge, of the role of Company Secretary.

4. Previous experience in the B2B Industry is highly preferred.

1. Degree in law (LLB & LLM) and Qualified ACS/FCS.

2. Familiarity with international laws and regulations is a plus.