Godrej Properties - Senior Manager - Legal

Role Summary:

The incumbent is responsible for coordinating with external legal consultants in drafting of agreements, and legal inquiring of all project related documents and contracts in order to prevent any legal issues for the company.

Role Specifications:

Responsibility Area Key Activities Indicative Performance Measures

Financial

1. Sets processes / guidelines

- Creates a standard framework for drafts pertaining to legal issues, basis past experiences, and modifies it as per project requirement

- Sets guidelines to ensure that the Agreement to Sales document is prepared on time and is error-free - No errors in documentation

Operational

1. Litigation

- Determines approach in managing litigation cases through discussion and follow up with external consultants /advocates

- Deal with litigation cases e.g - 3rd party claims, vendor issues, customer complaints, pollution and environment hazards etc. and safeguard the interest of the company.

- Represents GPL in court hearings - Timely resolution of cases

2. Legal Advisory support

- Provides timely advise to other departments on concerns/queries having a legal impact

- Examines contracts made by Contracts team to provide legal controls and checkpoints

- Generates a knowledge repository for updates on laws, regulations, ordinances, by- laws relating to real estate industry and make the same available to the team. - TAT

3. Legal support in Society/Association formation

- Reviews and approves all legal formalities for the formation of Society/Association e.g - Complete registration process of the society/association/ drafting the conveyance /Sales deeds/Lease deeds.

- Interacts with the Society/Association for finalization of respective deeds, if required - TAT

4. Deal evaluation and Documentation

- Conducts due diligence of properties and ensures that the title of the property is clear and marketable

- Reviews documents utilized by the BD team at the preliminary stage of the project - MoU, terms & conditions and lays out terms and conditions for the same

- Ensures that all commercial terms of the agreement are in place

- Drafts a definitive agreement with inputs from solicitors and the regional legal personnel

- Conducts discussions with JV Partners on legal aspects - No litigation

- No delays

5. Review of documents from Regions

- Hands over project files to the regional team once the agreement has been entered into

- Directly monitors regions which do not specifically appointed legal person

- Mentors, guides and monitors the activities of Regional Legal teams to ensure work as per plan

- Reviews, discusses and resolves issues in documents submitted by the Regional Legal team for approval - TAT

- No delays

6. Project management

- Distributes projects amongst reportees

- Assigns duties to direct reports for litigation roles and for coordination with regional office

- Ensure proper data management and storage of all records - TAT

- No delays

Process

1. Process Adherence

- Complies with company defined guidelines and processes

- Adheres to project timelines - % Process compliance

2. Process Improvement

- Identifies processes/procedures in own work area that need improvement

- Recommends process improvement ideas to streamline efficiency/costs/productivity Undertakes process improvement activities in own work area - Initiatives taken

- Impact of process improvement ideas

People

1. Goal Setting

- Conducts goal setting exercise for the role

- Prepares goal sheets

- Defines and sets work objectives for team members

- Balances work allocation in team - Timeliness

2. Recruitment

- Recommends manpower for the region

- Conducts interviews for all requirements in the team - Lead time in closing positions

3. Performance Management

- Conducts weekly review meetings and regular performance reviews with the entire team

- Provides guidance and direction to team members

- Conducts periodic reviews and year end appraisals for team members - Timeliness of appraisals - Objective appraisals

4. Culture Building Contribution

- Recommends and implements policies to ensure retention of the high potential/performing employees

- Acts as first point of contact for communication, interpretation and implementation of management decisions to direct reporting subordinates

- Communicates and implements GPL values/ processes/systems within own team Attrition %