Chief Legal Officer - Food & Beverage Conglomerate

Our client is a large domestic F&B and Retail conglomerate.

Responsibilities:

- Lead the Legal function of one of the entities and provide Legal Functional Leadership to other Group Companies as required.

- Develop and lead corporate legal strategy to promote and protect the company's matters on all existing & potential issues.

- Ability to analyze legal implications of various issues 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 regularly monitor compliance.

- 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 of 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 in an attempt 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 it forward. >

Candidate Profile:

- A Bachelors/Master's degree in Law.

- Relevant experience of minimum 20 - 25 years out of which at least 5 years with a law firm of repute and with 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, 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.

Due to paucity of time only shortlisted candidates will be connected. We apologize and regret the delay or no response.