Purpose of the Role

To partner with the regional sales, service and marketing teams, providing proactive legal and regulatory support. To ensure compliance at all sales and marketing locations in the region. To ensure continuous scan of the sales and marketing operations in the region and to derisk and simplify the same on an ongoing basis. To handle and reduce litigation in the region. The position should deliver innovative and simplified ways of working and standardize processes and formats for sales and marketing managers in the region to ease the conduct of business for achieving growth. To foster teamwork with other legal teams and to participate in best practice sharing

Job Responsibility

Business Partnering: Engage with business to identify impending risks in the region and suggest ways and means to avoid future complications.

Proactive support on standardizing processes: Identify areas of routine documentation and create standard processes and documents for the same.

Issue management for Business Units.

Consumer and Customer litigations.

Assessing Risks of Litigation: Identifying work areas / units with higher legal risks & take preventive steps

Planning Tactics to curb risk and minimize fallout: Identify creative ways to mitigate business risk without affecting business operations

Counsel Management: Build healthy working relationship with counsel for ensuring effective representation in court matters

Strong defense in each case: Examine case facts and related documents

Handling Civil and Criminal Litigation in High Court and Arbitration Cases.

Marketing communications of the region

Approve advertisements and schemes proposed by Sales, Service, Spares and Marketing teams of the region

Timely legal support to Sales, Service and Marketing teams of the region

Benchmarking processes with competitors

Anti spurious/ anti counterfeit activities in the region

To align with the PV & CV spares team and curb the menace in the market

Stakeholder Profiles & Nature of Interactions

Internal

Sales, Marketing, Service departments /

Network development and sales finance

Query resolution /Introduction of processes/

Benchmarking and simplification of processes / Derisking /Compliance

External

Advocates/Dealers/Service centres/Judicial,

Non -judicial & Local Authorities,

Police authorities

Engage on opportunities and risks.

To minimize and avoid litigation

Desired Candidate Profile
• Education Qualifications - LLB
• Work Experience - 12 + years
• Preferred Industry - Manufacturing industry with countrywide sales network

Skills & Competencies
• Customer Focus
• Dealing with Ambiguity
• Functional Excellence
• Knowledge of consumer, competition, legal metrology, contract laws, litigation, etc.
• Communication skills
• Knowledge of business processes