Godrej Industries – Manager – Legal (4-8 yrs)

The Corporate Legal Team at Godrej Industries Limited is responsible to handle legal assignments of many group companies like Godrej Industries (a listed company having strong presence in chemicals business), Godrej Consumer Products Ltd (another listed company having strong presence in India and regions like Africa, America, LatAm, Indonesia etc in FMCG space) etc. Corporate Legal Team works closely with the senior leaders on many complex legal projects, assignments and litigation.

Your Roles & Responsibilities :

– Main role of the job is to work on contract drafting, litigation management, legal advisory, compliance and knowledge management.

– A candidate must be an expert in drafting various contracts such as procurement contracts, outsourcing contracts, property related contracts including conveyance and leave & licence, distributor contracts, contracts with IT services provides, financial facility contract etc.

– Experience of handling cases before Supreme Court, High Courts, Civil Courts, Consumer Forums etc. is necessary. A candidate should be able to instruct the lawyers and interact with the senior counsels.

– A candidate must be able to advise various business teams on various issues including employment and labour issues, consumer complaints, real estate issues etc.

– A candidate must have experience of ensuring organisational compliance of various laws and good governance practices, including anti-bribery and anti-competition practices.

– A candidate should be able to summarise and make presentations on important legal developments including judicial pronouncements, passing of new law etc for briefing to the senior management and or business teams.

– A candidate must have thorough knowledge of commercial, civil, property, consumer and labour laws including Contract Act, Companies Act, Transfer of Property Act, Legal Metrology Act, Drugs & Cosmetics Act, Consumer Protection Act, Factories Act, Industrial Disputes Act etc.

– Good to have but not a must: Exposure to work on legal assignments in common law countries, dealing with FMCG or manufacturing industry, M&A transactions.

Critical Skills:

Functional:

– A candidate must have excellent analytical skills and drafting skills.

– Candidate should have a good grasping, strong desire to learn and time sensitivity.

– Must be a good team player.

This position requires a lot of interaction with internal stakeholders at various levels of the organisation and external stakeholders (including customers, government offices, lawyers and industrial forums etc). Hence, having excellent written and spoken communication skills is a must.

Leadership:

– Ability to solve problems through understanding of the business context

– Influencing – Ability to work with a diverse group of people across businesses and independently

Reporting Structure:

Reporting to Vice President – Corp Legal

Job Location Vikhroli (East), Mumbai