Key Responsibilities

1. Legal Support & Governance

- Business Advisory: Provide practical, solutions-oriented legal advice to leadership and cross-functional teams on day-to-day commercial, regulatory, and operational matters.
- Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify legal and compliance risks in business activities, proposing actionable mitigation measures and supporting their execution.
- Contract Management: Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a wide range of operational agreements, including commercial, service, procurement, vendor, research, and tender contracts.
- Strategic Project Support: Provide legal oversight for business-led projects, product launches, strategic partnerships, and recent operational initiatives.
- Regulatory Monitoring: Monitor relevant legal and regulatory developments impacting the business portfolio, assessing their impact and translating them into practical guidance for stakeholders.
- Disputes & Audits: Support legal audits, internal reviews, inspections, investigations, and disputes, collaborating with external counsel or global headquarters when required.
- Governance Alignment: Ensure strict alignment with global legal frameworks, human resources legal affairs, and head office guidelines through regular reporting and escalation of material matters.
- Note on Exclusions: This role acts in an advisory capacity but excludes direct handling of specialized corporate law matters (managed by HQ Corporate), patent/anti-counterfeiting litigation, and HQ-managed global licenses/strategic partnerships.

2. Compliance Support

- Program Implementation:



Support the roll-out and continuous improvement of the Global Compliance Program in alignment with corporate ethics standards.
- Ethical Culture: Actively promote a culture of ethics, integrity, and compliance across the assigned business perimeter.
- Assessments & Monitoring: Contribute to regular compliance risk assessments, internal monitoring activities, and the design of localized mitigation plans.
- Training & Communications: Deliver and support compliance training programs covering Codes of Conduct, ethical standards, anti-bribery, and anti-corruption principles.
- Third-Party Due Diligence: Manage and evaluate compliance due diligence for third-party vendors, suppliers, and external partners.
- Event & Sponsorship Review: Review and approve business activities involving external stakeholders, sponsorships, grants, advisory boards, events, and conferences to ensure compliance with internal policies.
- Investigations & Remediation: Assist with investigations into alleged policy violations, whistleblower complaints, or regulatory alerts, helping implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
- Data Privacy: Support compliance with applicable data protection and privacy requirements in coordination with dedicated data privacy experts.

Profile & Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

- Education: Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from a recognized institution.
- Experience: 5 to 8+ years of progressive legal and compliance experience, including significant time spent in an in-house role within a multinational organization

📌 Legal Manager (Mumbai)
🏢 Randstad
📍 Mumbai