Senior Manager/Manager - Legal - Pharma - LLB (7-14 yrs)

We have been mandated for the below mentioned role for a large Pharma company.

Position: Senior Manager/ Manager - Legal

Location: Mumbai

Job Purpose:

This role is a very broad-based and includes various legal issues and compliance requirements that the organization faces on regular basis. This role requires a highly motivated and detail-oriented individual to handle all legal issues and litigations in a very efficient and cost effective manner.

Job responsibility:

- Give accurate and timely counsel to executives in a variety of legal topics

- Collaborate with management to devise efficient defense strategies

- Specify internal governance policies and regularly monitor compliance

- Research and evaluate different risk factors regarding business decisions and operations

- Apply effective risk management techniques and offer proactive advice on possible legal issues

- Draft and solidify agreements, contracts and other legal documents to ensure the company's interest.

- Provide clarification on legal language or specifications to everyone in the organization

- Handle various notices, intimations and other communication and to draft response thereof in collaboration with business functions

- Preparations of case for opinions, briefing external advocates on variety of matters.

- Engaging external advocates and effectively managing the expenditure.

- Coordination and briefing / discussion with the lawyers for litigation matters.

- Coordinate and make arrangements required for legal proceedings and provide the required documents/information/input to external advocate engaged for proceedings in litigation matters.

- Draft, review and solidify pleadings, petitions, affidavits and other litigation documents,

- Attend litigation matters at various courts and tribunals

- Handle court matters at varying levels of complexities with a high degree of collaboration with all the stakeholders involved

- Develop and implement internal process guidelines, templates, and workflows decision-making, including matter and work product analyses

Qualification: LLB