Mondelez - Legal Counsel - CS/LLB

Legal Counsel, India

Legal Counsel, India is responsible for providing legal support as an experienced member of the India Legal Department.The position reports to the Director Legal at Head Office and is primarily focused on managing Legal matters connected with Categories, Functions, Branches and Plants with reasonable level of independence and minimum supervision.

The incumbent is expected to have strong business acumen and focus on problem solving, while upholding strong ethics and integrity across the organization. This position will also be the Company Secretary for the India flagship Mondelez entity, other India Legal entities as part of the Mondelez group and will be responsible for the Mondelez Bangladesh legal entity Company Secretarial matters.

Legal Counsel, India is charged with providing high quality and responsive legal support and guidance to the relevant functions or factories as part of the Legal team; establishing collaborative relationships with colleagues for effective business partnering; manage litigation through external legal resources within budgets and highlight and manage risk in areas supported.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Listed below are a series of brief key statements which describe the principal accountabilities of this role.

Provide legal support and risk evaluation to relevant Categories, functions and factories, through

- Legal advice

- Secretarial work

- Risk management

- Appropriate protection of intellectual property and interpretation of applicable laws and regulations interpretation, development and training and support for customer claims and managing external legal fees within agreed budgets legal support for major projects in the business and the Legal Function statutory compliance

- Establish a culture of compliance throughout the business through all forms of advice, communication, role modelling and training and includes:

- Overseeing corporate governance and compliance with law and policy

- Policy interpretation, development and training

- Implementing effective compliance training programs for policies owned by the Legal function

- Spearhead a regime of statutory compliance through the Statutory Compliance Tool

- Participate in and contribute to the Global Legal department's knowledge management and productivity-building initiatives as agreed with the Counsel on an annual basis

II) OTHER COMPETENCIES:

- Robust knowledge of local law and regulations

- Good business acumen

- Savvy with digital projects and concepts

- Understanding and experience of digital

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey legal advice and documentation in a commercially sound and relevant manner

- Sound judgment and business sense

- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to interact effectively with a wide variety of managers across a wide variety of business disciplines

- Strong customer focus, yet have the ability to give independent advice

- Knowledge of domestic and international FMCG/Foods industry, competitors and regulatory environment

- Ability to manage numerous matters and competing priorities and to work within a matrix set up

Candidate Experience Profile:

Education:

- Degree in Law (either 5 year course or post graduate 3 year course) from a recognized University and qualified Company Secretary

Experience:

- At least 10 years Post Qualification Experience as in-house legal advisor and Company Secretary in a large corporation with multiple locations and manufacturing facilities.

- Experience in FMCG or Food companies preferred.