Designation: Chief Legal Counsel Location: Gurgaon Details about the role: Overall Purpose: The incumbent will be responsible for leading the Legal function for the company In addition, the incumbent will also provide Legal Functional Leadership to other sister concern companies as required. Reporting: Position Reports to Group CFO Direct Reports: approx.. 4-5 member team at present. Other Group Company CLOs will have a dotted line reporting to the incumbent. All Plant Legal resources will have a dotted line reporting Focus areas : - Dealing with external Legal Firms, lawyers and other external stakeholders - All matters pertaining to ongoing and future litigation - Providing Legal advice and leadership to all 30+ Plants in India to ensure compliance and all other legal matters - FSSAI, Drug adulteration laws, terms of sales deeds along with an experience in IPR and trademarks. - Weights and Measurement Act - Vehicles Act - Real estate - Rent agreements, etc - Acts relevant for Plants - Factories Act/Boiler Act/Electrical Act - Laws pertaining to Sustainability - Exposure to Criminal and Civil Laws - Commercial Law Role & Responsibilities : - Developing and leading corporate legal strategy to promote and protect the company's matters on all existing & potential issues. - Ability to analyze various legal implications and advise multifarious internal stakeholders and management on it. - Maintaining proper corporate interactions with the relevant local and state government bodies, legislatures and the community at large. - Identifying potential legal risks and assessing the issues impacting those risks thereby building a resolution strategy. - Conceptualizing, developing & implementing highly efficient systems to formulate general management policy & internal governance policies to monitor compliance regularly. - Responsible for litigation, legal notices, keeping records of all licenses, compliances and all litigation matters. - Reviewing the progress of outstanding litigation, providing strategic and operational legal guidance on ongoing legal cases, applicable contracts etc. - Drafting and vetting various contracts, negotiations, commercial settlement agreements & cross-border Agreements including arbitration matters. - Preparing, reviewing and modifying legal documents/contractual instruments to assist and support various business activities/functional departments. - Preparing monthly and quarterly reports for the legal department for management meetings. - Ensuring all allegations of legal misconduct are reported in a timely manner to the executive team to maintain integrity within the business. - Liaising with relevant departments to ensure that where legal risks have been identified, appropriate courses of action have been taken. - Support filing of cases & defend cases filed against Company - criminal & civil. - Handle consumer case notices, recovery, defamation, attend court & liaison with advocates. - Handle situations in an unstructured set-up; capable of setting up systems & taking them forward. Desired Candidate Profile : - A Bachelor's/Master's degree in Law. - Relevant experience of a minimum of 20 - 25 years out of which at least 5 years with a law firm of repute and a proven track record. - Should have sound knowledge of Legal matters of various Indian Labor Laws, Corporate Law etc. - Should have hands-on experience in domestic business & not only in an advisory role. - Familiar with FSSAI, Drug adulteration laws, and terms of sales deeds along with an experience in IPR and trademarks preferred. - Demonstrated ability to create legal defensive or proactive strategies with Full comprehension of the influences of the external environment of a corporation. - Should have been working as a Legal Head of a listed Public Limited Company.

Gurgaon/Gurugram

Chief Legal Counsel - FMCG 

Chief Legal Counsel - FMCG  ,Job Description for Chief Legal Counsel - FMCG  in ACH Management Consultant Pvt Ltd in  Gurgaon/Gurugram for (15-25) years of experience. Apply Now!

Job Description for Chief Legal Counsel - FMCG  in ACH Management Consultant Pvt Ltd in  Gurgaon/Gurugram for (15-25) years of experience. Apply Now!