Corporate Legal Role - Manufacturing Domain - Automotive

Key Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities will include, but not limited to:

The Candidate will be required to partner with and support the local teams from various departments to understand the project requirements or risks, complete the contract review and/ or draft, collaborate with the line of business and legal team, and participate in the negotiations, as required.

The Candidates will support review and negotiations from a commercial and legal perspective and engage internal subject matter experts, as needed, including, Finance, Procurement, Product development, HR etc .

- Contract drafting, review, and negotiations to help internal stakeholders close agreements as per the established company guidelines and TAT's.

- Conducting risk / gap analysis and preparation of deviation reports or memo's to advise internal stakeholders on various issues and projects.

- Legal Research on relevant regulations applicable to the auto industry

- Assist in preparing and maintaining legal database for contracts and other legal documents.

- Assist in preparing and updating standard templates that may be used by business team to cover various business transactions

- Keep track of legal work handle at the business location and update the cross functions as and when required.

- Legal Compliance and management: you will have to manage and monitor statutory compliances for UK tech centre.

- Patent search and filing: Assist the Product Development team in preparing briefs for Patent Attorney to do patent search / filing.

- LLB degree with 8-12 years of post-qualification experience as an in-house lawyer in a multinational company

- Experience in auto industry desirable.

- Spoken and Written proficiency on Tamil Language is desirable.

- Sound legal knowledge and analytical approach to legal issues (Exposure to Project Management)

- Exposure to contract disputes, including alternate dispute resolution mechanisms.

- Able to work in the team and having good communication and drafting skill