Role mandate

Create an internal legal, secretarial and corporate-compliance owner who protects NIDOs commercial and corporate interests while enabling fast, practical business execution.

What success looks like

- Improve contract quality and turnaround for customer/vendor/partner agreements.
- Maintain clean corporate, board/shareholder and statutory governance.
- Create a reliable compliance calendar and legal-risk register.
- Reduce dependency on external counsel for routine matters while using specialists intelligently.
- Strengthen IP, confidentiality and dispute/documentation discipline.

Key responsibilities

- Review, draft and negotiate NDAs, customer/vendor agreements, service/AMC/MAS/rental contracts, channel/partner agreements and other commercial documents.
- Own company secretarial coordination, board/shareholder documentation, statutory registers/filings and governance calendar, with external CS support where required.
- Maintain corporate compliance calendar and coordinate closure with Finance, HR, Operations and external specialists.
- Manage legal notices, disputes, claims, documentation and external counsel.
- Support IP/confidentiality/trademark/patent coordination with Product/Engineering and external IP counsel.




- Create contract templates, clause playbooks, approval matrices and legal repositories.
- Support corporate transactions, fundraising/diligence and governance documentation when required.

Decision rights & boundaries

- Payroll statutory compliance remains Finance.
- HR/labour compliance remains HR with legal support.
- EHS/operational compliance remains Operations.
- Cybersecurity compliance remains Enterprise IT; Legal supports contractual/regulatory interpretation.
- Role is an enabling business counsel, not an approval bottleneck.

Ideal candidate profile

Practical in-house legal/compliance professional comfortable in B2B commercial contracts and company-secretarial/corporate governance coordination in a growing Indian company.

Experience & qualifications

- 7 - 12+ years relevant experience; LLB required. CS qualification/exposure is a strong advantage.
- Robust commercial contracting; manufacturing/technology/project/service agreements preferred.
- Working knowledge of Companies Act/corporate governance and compliance management.
- Ability to manage external counsel and prioritise risk pragmatically

📌 Manager Legal, Secretarial & Compliance (Mumbai)
🏢 Nido Machineries
📍 Mumbai