Head - Legal - Pharma

Designation: Head Legal

Department : Legal

Desired Qualification: LLB

Experience Required: 18+ years

Major Purpose of the Job: (Exactly spell out key deliveries/results expected from this job)

- To head legal function of company and group companies.

Principal Accountability: (Please write all the major jobs that the employee is required to carry out )

Litigation:

- Development of guidelines for mitigation of litigation.

- Strategic thinking on Litigation requirements.

- Strategy and research based legal approach while handling legal matters.

- Drafting, vetting plaints, written statements, replies, complaints, applications etc

- Regular co-ordination with the counsels and ensure timely attendance and response.

Contract:

- Drafting, vetting/ calibrating various commercial agreements name few, manufacturing agreements, distributorship agreements, trade mark license user agreement etc.

- Ensure Template Standardization

- Advice on Contract formats and requirements; co-ordination with Functional heads

- Ensure proper compliance, timely renewal and/or termination of contracts

- Maintaining proper documentation; custodian of Original agreements.

Corporate Legal Affairs:

- Making proactive recommendations to the management so that the operations of the Organization are always in compliance with applicable laws for the time being in force

- In house legal opinions; In-house Legal Audit; Development of SOPs for mitigating litigation as well as imparting training/guidelines to other functional subordinates/ business associates for compliance of SOPs and other applicable laws and compliances thereto.

- Being a core committee member handled the activities of demerger, acquisition & joint venture company formation if any.

- Preparing MIS and advising cost based legal approach to the Management

Statutory and Regulatory Affairs:

- Imparting guidelines to concerned Functions, in obtaining, holding required licenses under various statutes.

- Drafting various documents required for obtaining licenses under various statutes and also for

- Product Registrations, Tender documents;

- Ensure review of product labels / promotional materials to comply with concerned statutory requirements, Legal Metrology, and IPR

- Handling prosecution cases, replying to Show Cause notices issued by Regulatory Authorities

IPR:

- Imparting training/guidelines to Marketing personnel while coining and adopting the trade Marks and also tracing out/investigating the imitating /duplicate products.

- Attending all formalities for registration of trade marks, copyrights from search to till Registration and Renewals including registration and maintenance in foreign countries.

- Protecting Intellectual Property rights of the company by tracking trade mark journals and filing Oppositions, defending trade mark applications in Opposition, Rectifications.

- Proactive steps in taking investigations, issuing seize and desist notice against infringers/imitators and filing Infringement /Passing off suits against them and getting injunction from courts.

- Drafting /publishing Trade Mark Caution Notice/ Precaution advt./ articles in news papers to caution the public in protecting trade mark.

Desired Candidate: 18+ years of experience in Pharma / Manufacturing industry

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T.M.Hemalatha
Lead Recruitment Consultant
Unidus Services (Manpower) Pvt. Ltd.
Pune
Phone : 91-8380093033
020-27275004
Visit us: www.unidusservices.com