Legal Counsel

Job Description

The Legal Counsel, India is charged with providing high quality and responsive legal support and guidance to the relevant functions or factories as part of the Legal team; establishing collaborative relationships with colleagues for effective business partnering; manage litigation through external legal resources within budgets and highlight and manage risk in areas supported.

Principal Accountabilities :

Listed below are a series of brief key statements which describe the principal accountabilities of this role

Provide legal support and risk evaluation to relevant Categories, functions and factories, through

• Legal advice

  
  

• Company Secretarial work

  
  

• Contract risk management

  
  

• Ensuring appropriate protection of intellectual property

  
  

• Identification and interpretation of applicable laws and regulations

  
  

• Policy interpretation, development and training

  
  

• Litigation and support for customer claims

  
  

• Negotiate and managing external legal fees within agreed budgets

  
  

• Provide legal support for major projects in the business and the Legal Function

  
  

• Statutory compliance

  
  

Establish a culture of compliance throughout the business through all forms of advice, communication, role modelling and training and includes:

• overseeing corporate governance and compliance with law and policy

  
  

• policy interpretation, development and training

  
  

• Implementing effective compliance training programs for policies owned by the Legal function

  
  

• Spearhead a regime of statutory compliance through the Statutory Compliance Tool

  
  

Participate in and contribute to the Global Legal department’s knowledge management and productivity building initiatives as agreed with the Counsel on an annual basis

Other Competencies

• Robust knowledge of local law and regulations

  
  

• Good business acumen

  
  

• Savvy with digital projects and concepts

  
  

• Understanding and experience of digital

  
  

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey legal advice and documentation in a commercially sound and relevant manne

  
  

• Sound judgment and business sense

  
  

• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to interact effectively with a wide variety of managers across a wide variety of business disciplines

  
  

• Strong customer focus, yet have the ability to give independent advice

  
  

• Knowledge of domestic and international FMCG/Foods industry, competitors and regulatory environment

  
  

• Ability to manage numerous matters and competing priorities and to work within a matrix set up

  
  

Candidate Experience Profile

Education:

• Degree in Law (either 5 year course or post graduate 3 year course) from a recognized University and qualified Company Secretary

  
  

Experience:

• At least 10 years Post Qualification Experience as in-house legal advisor and Company Secretary in a large corporation with multiple locations and manufacturing facilities. 

  
  

• Experience in FMCG or Food companies preferred.

  
  

Key Values: While all MDM Values are important, the following would be very critical for this role

Act like owners

• Walk-the-talk / Lead by example

  
  

• Take hard calls and decide what is right for the business 

  
  

• Focus on outcome over activity

  
  

• Question the status quo / Encourage experimentation

  
  

• Always act like this is our business and treat the company’s money as our own

  
  

• Be proud custodians and take our stewardship of our brands and people seriously

  
  

Keep it simple

• Focus on the core issue

  
  

• Make our decisions and actions clear

  
  

• Break complexity into steps to success

  
  

• Don’t let perfect get in the way of better

  
  

• Identify areas to reduce and manage complexity

  
  

Discuss, Decide and Deliver

• Get to the heart of the issue

  
  

• Be fully present during discussions

  
  

• Promises made, promises kept

  
  

• Align on the issue before coming to a conclusion

  
  

• Discuss with the right people before you decide

  
  

• Make decisions and back each other

  
  

• Decide quickly and keep the business moving forward

  
  

Within Country Relocation support available and for candidates voluntarily moving internationally some minimal support is offered through our Volunteer International Transfer PolicyBusiness Unit SummaryMondelez India Foods Private Limited (formerly Cadbury India Ltd.) has been in India for over 70 years, making sure our mouth-watering and well-loved local and global brands such as Cadbury chocolates, Bournvita and Tang powdered beverages, Oreo and Cadbury Bournvita biscuits, and Halls and Cadbury Choclairs Gold candies get safely into our customers hands—and mouths. Headquartered in Mumbai, the company has more than 3,300 employees proudly working across sales offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai and in manufacturing facilities at Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, at our global Research & Development Technical Centre and Global Business Hub in Maharashtra and in a vast distribution network across the country. We are also proud to be recognised by Avatar as the Best Companies for Women in India in 2019 – the fourth time we’ve received this award.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job TypeRegularLegal Business Growth Partners and ServicesLegal