AGM/DGM - Legal - Shipping/Mining

Role:

- Develop and implement a detailed legal compliance system

- Provide strong legal support to all the business units of the group

- Monitor key trends in the regulatory and statutory environment and suggest an action plan for addressing them.

- Manage intellectual property matters for the company if any

KRA’s:

- Coordinate requests from businesses and prioritise issues depending on importance and escalate issues when necessary

- Leverage central legal resources when required (tap into functional expertise when necessary)

- Develop and implement a detailed legal compliance system

- Assist in assessing legal risks in transactions, contracting and operations and suggest risk mitigation strategies

- Monitor the organization’s investments and operations from a legal perspective and highlight concerns if any to the head of corporate affairs

- Assist in third-party negotiations and provide support in drafting contracts

- Provide support to the sales/sourcing teams in RFP responses, contract preparation and negotiation and debt collection matters

- Provide strategic advice and guidance to client management on future business expansion in India and overseas including M&A activities

- Provide general legal advice and support to all business functions

- Manage external legal expertise

- Handle litigations/settlements/anti-trust in cases which are sensitive, high-value, involve promoters, involve international arbitration or are related to supreme court/apex bodies

- Monitor key trends in the regulatory and statutory environment and suggest an action plan for addressing them.

- Manage intellectual property matters for the company, if any

- Build the desired organisation with best-in-class processes and capabilities

- Ensure that the required organization is established as planned

- Foster the professional growth of team members through coaching, mentoring, and performance feedback