Senior Legal Counsel - Recruitment Firm - LLB/CS

Looking for a Company secretary and Senior Legal Counsel to join our team.

Location : CP, New Delhi

Working hours : 5 days, Day Shift (WFO)

- AMS is a leading global provider of outsourced recruitment and consultancy services. As a legal team, our work is predominantly commercial in nature, dealing with both large and small scale contracts with clients (both outsourcing and consultancy services), recruitment agencies, payroll providers and technology providers. Alongside that, we deal with all the usual matters you would expect from an international in-house legal team, such as data protection, property, regulatory and other ad hoc legal and compliance matters.

- The AMS legal team is spread globally, with lawyers in the India, APAC, UK, US, Mexico and Poland.

- The role will have a particular focus on the India & APAC but will also, on occasion, support members of the legal team in other jurisdictions.

- The Senior Legal Counsel will usually be the sole legal representative on a particular matter, with support from various business leaders. This will provide the right candidate with a great opportunity to operate independently, be a decision maker and take accountability.

Company secretarial service :

- Managing board meetings

- Ensuring MCA & other corporate compliances

- Managing Statutory and compliance returns

Labour Laws :

- Advising team , payroll on labour laws

- POSH

- Making a framework and ensuring labour compliances

- Helping in drafting employees policies

Client Contracts :

- Draft and negotiate client agreements either from scratch, as a mark-up on client produced drafts or utilising AMS templates/standard terms

- Respond to Bids/RFPs in a commercially sensitive way to ensure maximum protection with minimum red lining of first drafts

- Advising the business on the most appropriate legal and commercial documentation by which to achieve the desired outcome

- Provide legal and commercial support when contract queries are raised, on all elements of the contract interpretation or exploitation and covering client challenges or disputes.

Supplier Contracts :

- Prepare contracts with direct and indirect suppliers (including technology suppliers and recruitment agencies (who supply candidates/workers to AMS), technology providers and payroll providers) to reflect the requirements of both AMS and its clients

- Provide support and escalation route for AMS supplier management and implementation teams when rolling-out new supplier contracts, and deal with legal queries/escalations

- Advise on contractual disputes with suppliers.

Training and Development :

- Training of wider AMS business on commercial law updates and best practice

- Develop processes to achieve an effective and efficient legal process

- Develop checklists, templates, training, FAQs to drive the business to a self-service legal model for the business, where appropriate.

We are a small team, working in a fast-paced, sales-driven business. As such, the Senior Legal Counsel should be :

- Capable of building strong relationships with colleagues both within the legal team and the wider AMS business

- Confident in negotiating directly with AMS stakeholders, clients, suppliers and their legal advisors

Prepared to deliver advice and support in a business-friendly manner, taking a proportionate approach to managing legal risk and cutting through pure legal issues to deliver commercially-focused advice

- Professional, with excellent presentation and organisational skills, and an exceptional attention to detail

- Confident dealing with a number of different transactions at the same time

- Comfortable with the responsibility of working independently and proactively as the lead lawyer on a particular transaction

- Open-minded, hard working and with a drive for continuous improvement opportunities within the - legal function to improve the efficiency and speed of process of negotiation and closure of the contract negotiations

- Commercially aware and interested to learn about the commercial and operational aspects of the business

Experience :

- Post qualification legal experience within a law firm and/or in-house commercial environment.

- Commercial contract drafting and negotiation in a professional services/outsourcing context.

- Knowledge of India corporate and labour laws

- Strong IT skills, comfortable with producing and amending own documents without support.

- Excellent written and spoken English.

- Recruitment sector experience (either advisory, or as in-house counsel)

- Legal experience in any of the following areas - ITES (services and goods)

Qualifications :

- CS & LLB

- Minimum of 8 years post qualification experience