Lakme Lever - Senior Manager - Legal

- Demonstrate strong functional skills and leadership attributes in partnering business.

- To provide pro-active legal leadership, support and advice to the business, key stakeholders and to assist them with achieving their core strategic objectives while appropriately managing and mitigating the associated legal risks.

- Advisory and execution of company processes, legislations and regulations that apply to business

- Developing and nurturing culture of excellence, rigor and process orientation in legal function.

Roles and Responsibilities

Contract Management:

- Vetting and drafting of various kinds of agreements viz. Lease agreement, Leave and License Agreement, Franchisee agreement, agreements related to Human resources, training, product partners and others

- Contract Management (proper documentation and up keeping of all agreements, contracts and their renewals on time)

- Document relationships with external parties through contracts, T&Cs and advise business from time to time.

Advisory:

- Disciplinary process for errant franchisees/follow up process/terminations

- Catastrophic Customer complaint management

- Ensuring Due diligence of properties to support the business expansion plan

- Partnering for talent recruitment, retention and people issues

- To advocate and make representations for laws and regulations supporting the growth of the business and industry.

Compliance :

- To advise the business and implement changes in legislations.

- Ensuring all compliances (Labor, Municipal, IPR, etc) as applicable to FOFO and COCO salons

- Owning the compliance management system Franchise Management portal and beyond

Dispute / Litigation Management :

- Advising and managing disputes to minimize company exposure and risks

- Sending various kinds of notices, business letters and communications viz.

- Prosecuting and defending litigations and coordinating with external lawyers

- Conducting raids and following civil and criminal action against IPR infringers

Business Integrity:

- Drafting, implementation & trainings for SOPs and policies within the company POSH

- Supporting investigations into complaints relating to POSH

- It is desirable for a candidate to have an understanding of legal-commercial wrt service/VAT tax -inputs to company business/franchisee business

Key Result Areas

- Protect, preserve company assets and reputation.

- To partner the BD and Operations functions effectively and to ensure basic functions of these departments are completed in compliance with set internal processes / legal norms so as to minimise the risks faced by business.

- To steer disputes and litigations relating to assigned areas to the companys benefit and interest.

- To advise business for new product / service developments.