Manager - Group Legal (FES)

The key expectation from the role is to act as in-house counsel delivering high quality, comprehensive, authoritative legal service. Key responsibilities include

1. Partnering with Business for Legal Services

• Providing a comprehensive and high quality in-house legal service, across a broad range of legal issues to internal customers within the organization


• Ensuring all customer activities are in line with legal requirements and meets specifications within the organization and risks are mitigated appropriately.


• Developing and maintaining excellent relationships with internal customers (business leaders),


• Promoting the value of the legal function support for contract drafting, negotiation and closure.


• Preparation and negotiation of contracts, and leading in managing and resolving contractual disputes and other contentious issues, to a satisfactory conclusion, if they occur.

1. Proactive engagement with business teams

• Understand the spoken and unspoken needs and provide timely advice.


• Identification of the issues while advising and then introducing processes and monitoring mechanism.


• Developing and implementing best practices from other similar industries


• Monitoring and supervising the implementation of the best practices such as standardisation of the documents, awareness sessions etc.

• Excellent legal skills including drafting and negotiating contracts and strategic management of contractual disputes.

• Capability of detailed, in-depth analysis of legal documents and of work situations that have a legal dimension.


• Ability to turn around enquiries quickly and tackle issues at short notice.


• Excellent written and oral communications, including the ability to work effectively with a range of people and the ability to deliver advice in a clear and user-friendly way.


• High influencing and negotiation skills


• A can do attitude with a readiness to roll your sleeves up and get down to tackling and resolving issues and producing excellent outcomes.

Essential

• Qualified lawyer - LLM/LLB


• Experience of working as a legal practitioner for 6 to 8 years. Preferred experience in manufacturing industry

Desirable

• Experience as an in-house lawyer or similar position.


• Sound working knowledge of Indian business environment and related legalities.