Location
Chennai | India
Job description
Leadership teams: Part of Regional Leadership Team (RLT) for South Region headed by RM.
Here is what your day at Unilever would look like
Legal Strategy:
- Collaborate with General Manager, South and RLT of South Region to develop and lead implementation of legal strategy and support business operations for South Region.
- Provide expert and strategic legal advice to RLT leadership on legal matters such as impact of upcoming regulations, response to priority litigations, crisis management etc
Corporate Advisory & documentation
- Providing corporate legal advisory on any legal issue pertaining to the Company
- Structuring, Drafting, negotiations with external counterparts on a variety of commercial contracts
- RS (Distributor) lifecycle management including onboarding, regulatory compliances etc for South.
Compliance Support
- Monitor and support compliance of statutory and regulatory requirements in the region
- Recommend and formulate the general guidelines, checklists, and procedures to ensure legal & regulatory compliance
- Providing legal advisory on compliances, identifying legal non-compliances and advising on ensuring compliances by the Company.
Litigation Management and External Counsel Management
- Strategizing, drafting, filing and providing necessary legal support with respect to litigations of the Company
- Build a network of and work with team of external lawyers, consultants and paralegal
- Ensuring effective representation in and minimizing cost of litigations
- Adherence to legal budget OPPORTUNITIES TO SPARK CHANGE.
Advocacy & External Engagement
- External Advocacy with regulators and government authorities concerning legal/regulatory aspects.
Team management
- Lead team of 4/5 - Legal managers / consultant / para-legal / CUC-Consultant
- Manage and monitor day to day operations of legal team resources.
Combating Unfair Competition
- Pre-empt and minimize product counterfeits.
Unilever Policy compliance and Cascades
- Lead and support internal investigations with respect to integrity issues for the south region.
- Awareness sessions and cascades for Legal, Integrity and compliances with internal and external stakeholders.
Others
- Provide legal support to Legal and/or Business Projects assigned by the Company.
- The services would entail travel, including but not limited for litigation, regulatory and government engagement, issue and dispute management, etc
- Crisis Management and Support
- Such other tasks or activities as HUL deems necessary for the full and complete delivery of the tasks listed hereinabove.
What can you expect to do and learn
- Work with diverse set of people and explore different culture. It could be around various spectrum, generational, gender, orientation, people with disability, employees with career break or gig work force.
- Collaborate with various junior folks and mentor them to be the future leaders.
- Support inclusion at workplace
- Understand Unilever s business across the globe, it s functions & the values.
- Support firm s vision and add value to the firm progress in various ways.
What are we looking for
- Holds a bachelors /masters degree in Law
- 10 years of experience as an inhouse counsel along with experience at a top tier law firm
- Should have prior experience of leading a team
- Extensive Legal partnership experience gained in comparable environments. Understanding of Contracts, litigation, Intellectual property rights, labour laws & Compliance is required.
- Complete understanding of Indian Law & Legal requirements
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