Senior Manager – Legal (Litigation & Recovery) · Mumbai · Reports to General Counsel / Head – Legal
The mandate
Our client is a large, listed Indian building materials company with a brand that goes back several decades, a national dealer and retail network, and manufacturing in Gujarat and Maharashtra. Most of its sales go through dealers and project customers on credit. As a result, it carries a steady stream of recovery matters, consumer complaints, and commercial and labour cases, spread across forums and handled by many external counsel. The Company wants one owner for this whole caseload. This person will know every matter, run the key ones personally, and turn disputes into money recovered and exposure closed.
What you will own
Portfolio and control
• Set up a single litigation and recovery register within the first 90 days. It will cover every pending matter with forum, counsel, exposure, next date and a realistic outcome, and will be reviewed monthly with Finance. [confirm: current number of matters]




• Recover ₹[confirm] crore of aged dealer and project receivables within 18 months, using Section 138 NI Act complaints, Order XXXVII summary suits, arbitration and Section 9 IBC applications, whichever gets the best result.
• Rationalise the external counsel panel and cut outside legal spend by [confirm]%. This means fixed-fee arrangements, transparent briefs and accountability for every appearance.

Hands-on practice
• Personally draft or settle the key pleadings, legal notices, replies and written statements. You will not only brief counsel and forward their work.
• Attend key hearings, mediations and settlement meetings in person, including outside Mumbai when a matter needs it.
• Defend consumer commission cases about product quality and installation, working with the QC and customer care teams to build the technical record.

Prevention
• Feed dispute patterns back into dealer, project and supply agreements. This includes security instruments, personal gua

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