Legal Counsel

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials. The company’s products, which are used in nearly every major industry, include pressure-sensitive materials for labels and graphic applications; tapes and other bonding solutions for industrial, medical, and retail applications; tags, labels and embellishments for apparel; and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions serving retail apparel and other markets. Headquartered in Glendale, California, the company employs more than 32,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Reported sales in 2020 were $7.0 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com

For this diverse, high impact role of Legal Counsel South Asia within our matrix organization, we will be looking for candidates that are energized, inquisitive and forward-thinking to join our team in Bangalore, India. The main jurisdictions in the region are India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Indonesia. The Legal Counsel provides legal and compliance advice and support for our Solutions Group. This Legal Counsel will report directly to our Senior Legal Counsel for the region.

The South Asia regional team forms part of a larger APAC team based out of Hong Kong. There is regular collaboration within the Law Department across Asia Pacific and often beyond, in particular where it comes to collaboration on the legal advice on Solutions (i.e. service offerings that typically include a software and digital trigger component).

The legal advice and responsibilities will include commercial transactions and contracts (e.g. procurement, sales, distribution, partnering, licensing and development agreements), litigation and dispute resolution, product and regulatory compliance, labor/employment, antitrust/competition, import/export and legal matters associated with business transactions and restructurings. With a substantial part of our workforce based in South Asia, the Legal Counsel South Asia plays an important role in managing and resolving labor and employment related matters. 

As the company’s longer term strategy is to develop solutions and solve challenges for our customers in the connection between the physical and digital, the work for in house lawyers at Avery Dennison will increasingly include supporting the business in such matters as supporting software and hardware solutions including software licensing, SaaS and other cloud transactions, technology, hardware purchases, and professional services.

Key enablers of success in this role are the ability to communicate complex legal and policy matters in an understandable, practical manner for non-lawyers and to connect legal principles with practical actions, to thrive in a high paced, complex environment requiring you to influence in a matrix organization and apply judgment to expedite solutions to legal and, at times, non legal challenges and to be pragmatic, proactive, and collaborative in your approach while maintaining an excellent attention to detail.

• A degree in law from a reputed university. At least 5 years of experience of working at both a law firm as well as in a legal role at a multinational company;

  
  

• Commercial contract and corporate law experience is required; labor law and IT related work experience is a significant plus; 

  
  

• Integrity, professionalism, team player, an eye for detail, an inquisitive mind, a pro-active personality, an ability to prioritize, strategic business acumen, confidence and capability in addressing sensitive and complicated ethical conduct, compliance and personnel-related matters

  
  

• An ability to present well-reasoned options and solutions and influence senior executive management to come to decisions in complex, at times opaque, situations requiring much judgment;

  
  

• Ability to travel within the region and work from the office in Peenya.

  
  

AVERY DENNISON IS AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY PROVIDER

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other protected status. EEOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.