Head - Legal & Contract Management - LLB - Mfg/Auto/Infra

Job Title & Purpose:

Job Title : Head of Legal and Contract Management, India Cluster

Purpose of the Job :

- Provide active legal support to the business and projects on all legal matters within the India Cluster.

- Ensure that Company takes legal and contractual commitments with acceptable levels of risks.

Position in the Organisation :

Organisational Reporting :

- Position reports hierarchically to : VP Legal & Compliance for the Asia-Pacific Region

- Functional reporting to the : Company Transport Managing Director for India Cluster.

Network & Links :

Internal: All internal Company Transport functions including but not limited to Commercial, Sales & Tendering community, Project Management community, Sourcing and Procurement Community & Contract Management community

External: Customers, Partners, Subcontractors, Suppliers, etc.

Mission :

Measurement :

- Quality on time delivery of support and deliverables expected.

- Ensure Company standard terms and conditions or tailor made acceptable conditions are applied to our contracts.

Accountabilities :

- Legal support to sales teams on tender activities, contract drafting and negotiation.

- Legal support to project and contract managers on claim management, dispute settlement and other legal issues arising during the course of performing contracts.

- Legal support on corporate matters

- Legal advice on applicable law and regulatory matters

- Contract management and claim management support

- Managing the India Cluster Legal and Contract Management team within the budget indicated by the VP Legal & Compliance and the General Counsel

Responsibilities :

- Provide sound level of legal advices and supervision on all tenders in India Cluster;

- Pro-actively provide legal support in claim management actions on projects under execution;

- Ensure on-time delivery of legal reviews, legal gap analysis, legal opinions, claims files, pleadings submissions and/or other key documents produced by the legal function for the operational business;

- Preparing and customising template agreements / letters.

- Litigation, arbitration other dispute matters within the India Cluster.

- Handling all Corporate law, Ethics and Compliance matters within the India Cluster.

- Managing and leading the legal and contract management organisation in India Cluster;

- Lead project contract management activities for India Cluster including on time delivery of reports are required by the management, and ensure contract management KPIs in improving and protecting the contract margin are achieved.

Business Understanding :

- Knowledge and experiences in the railway or infrastructure industry

- Knowledge and experiences in dealing with government-related tenders and contracts

- Knowledge and experiences in corporate legal matters

Educational Requirements :

- Minimum LL.B or any equivalent Law Degree from a recognised university in India.

Technical Knowledge / Experience :

- Minimum 12 years post-qualification experiences.

- Familiar with public tenders

- litigations / dispute resolution/company secretarial/company law matters/contract law

- Familiar with laws and matters related to anti-corruption and competition law

Job Location : Bangalore