Job Purpose:- Responsible for developing and leading corporate legal strategy to promote and protect the company’s interests along with administering and maintaining policies and objectives in an accurate and timely manner.

Generic Duties

• Plans, leads, organizes, staffs & controls department’s overall activities,
• Designs and implements procedures, systems, and tools to maximize departmental operating efficiency,
• Assesses risks by following industry trends to ensure profitability, company survival and provide solutions,
• Coaches, mentors, and develops employees through periodic performance evaluations and ongoing performance dialogue and feedback,
• Ensures adherence to company policies and procedures and undertake disciplinary actions if the need arises.

Main Duties & Responsibilities:

• Advise executive management on the impact, activities, and proposed activities of the Company with regard to local, state, and federal laws and regulations and judicial and administrative decisions.
• Assess the merits of major court cases filed against the Company and approve, with the advice of the appropriate function head, settlement of such court cases where warranted.
• Provides accurate and timely counsel to the Company on a variety of legal topics.
• Provides legal consulting in policy development and training about prevention.
• Develops and leads corporate legal strategy to promote and protect the company’s interests
• Oversees the delivery of legal services and resources to accomplish corporate goals, strategies and priorities,
• Participates in the formulation of general management policy as a member of the executive management team,
• Oversees the development and review of contracts, leases and various agreements involving the Company.
• Oversees the performance of the retention lawyers and related legal proceedings.
• Represents the company in pursuing any legal proceedings.
• Build long-term relationships with all relevant stakeholders, such as local government, media people, politicians, etc.
• Solves conflicts and addresses issues that could occur between the business and the other entity and promptly responds to incidents and other events as necessary,
• Facilitates land leasing and related activities in Governmental Organizations
• Works with Municipality and Sub- city to handle land holding, use, and transfer of ownership,
• Work with the leasing office to secure land by lease for any projects that the company might be engaged,
• Assist other functional managers with any government affairs and related issues they require for the business,
• Develops and supervises control systems with the view to prevent or address violations of laws, regulations, and guidelines
• Oversees the Periodic review of contracts, policies, and other legal documents of the Company to ensure compliance with regulatory standards.
• Directs the communication of compliance-related issues with employees across all divisions of the organizations and address any and all concerns they may have about legal, ethical or compliance matters;
• Defines and develops the approach for the mandatory compliance training in collaboration with the Training Team;
• Oversees the Preparation, publication and distribution of authorized commercial compliance guides and other instructional materials to help internal staff and external commercial partners achieve clarity on commercial compliance requirements.
• Perform other duties assigned by the immediate supervisor.

Qualifications & Education:

• LLB or LLM in Law

Experience

• Above 10 years of experience

Skills

• Team management and leadership skills,
• Organization and planning skills,
• Time management skills