Head- Legal
About Job
Head Legal is a Strategic Leadership position within client organization and will be responsible for providing Legal and strategic inputs to the various businesses of client organization towards safeguarding the interest of the company in litigation and compliances while supporting the business with drafting contracts, agreements, documents on need basis. This individual will be acting as advisor to the Board/Sr. Management on critical issues involving risk management w.r.t prevailing laws of the land in business operations, marketing, statutory compliances, ESG and general business environment.
Job Description
Job Responsibility
- Directing legal matters by instituting systems & practices to secure best interests of the organization
- Structuring, drafting & vetting all contracts, agreements, legal -commercial documents, court pleadings, plaints & notices
- Design Litigation Strategies in line with business and commercial objectives and attending the legal proceedings in all type of cases PAN India in all courts & Tribunals /forums.
- Render advisory on compliance, legal amendments/notifications
- Act as a Strategic business partner to general and upper management
- Provide guidance to HR on employee related issues and in drafting HR policies
- Lead various legal & statutory matters like preparation of plaints, written statements and replies of the complaints filed by competitors, consumers , authorities and other parties
- Evaluation, Monitoring, Progress and Review of pending cases and providing guidance/directions for quick disposal
- Administer various matters related with due diligence required by Financial Institutions, Banks & Investors
- Savelegal cost and expensesby providing self/in-house drafting & vetting of Agreementsor Contracts and legal commercial documents, notices and reply to notices
- Leaddiligent strategic planning to reduce and close litigations and reduce their occurrences
- Resolve Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) issues including infringements, passing off actions, filing counter statements/evidences etc
- Collaborate with the IT Team for design, implementation and monitoring of IT Portal to maintain and monitor the Litigations, Notices, License & their renewals, Periodic returns, and published periodic reports to management
- Laydown process and procedures for litigations arising out of Food Safety, Consumer complaint, product and license non-compliances
- Training to business and operations team regarding basic legal aspects like acting on summons, notices, govt. officer visits, consumer complaints, marketing promotions etc.
Job Location: North India
Salary: Best In Industry
Job Details
- Industry
- Food, Agribusiness & Allied
- Segment
- Agri Finance
- Job Level
- Senior Management
- Salary
- Experience
- 12 - 22 (in years)
- State
- Country
- India
- Reporting To
- Company Name
- Company Size