Associate Legal Counsel - Baddi, India - Mondelēz International

Mondelēz International
Mondelēz International
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Baddi, India

4 weeks ago

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How you will contribute


Under the guidance of Mondelēz International's legal leader or counsel, you will deliver on our legal strategy, activities, and service delivery model in a legal specialist and generalist area of focus.

In this role, you provide strategic legal support to the legal business unit, region and global stakeholders and work closely with them to ensure legal concepts and implications are understood and related legal and operational risks are assessed.

You will operate systems and technologies relevant to the area of support, prepare documents, gather information, and interact with business partners to deliver objectives and provide expertise and experience in a legal specialty area to identify and advise on laws and regulatory changes for a given country and/or across multiple countries.


What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:

  • Legal experience, ideally in a large matrixed multinational company
  • Working independently and coping with stressful situations and deadlines.
  • Excellent problemsolving, project management, and time management skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
  • Technology and Systems Savvy; ability to operate and manage systems and technologies relevant to particular job

Associate Legal Counsel (Baddi - Himachal Pradesh)

BASIC PURPOSE:


  • The Associate Counsel, India is responsible for providing legal support as a junior member of the India Department. The position reports to one or more of the Legal Counsels at Head Office and is primarily focused on managing Legal matters connected with Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing, and other functions as allocated. The incumbent is expected to bring a business orientation and focus on problem solving, while upholding strong ethics and integrity across the organization.
  • The Associate 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 as directed by the Legal Counsel; 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 functions or factories, through
- 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 relevant factory as delegated by Counsel and manage the Factory Stakeholder maps


Establish a culture of compliance throughout the relevant factory 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
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

  • II) OTHER COMPETENCIES_
  • Robust knowledge of local law and regulations
  • Understanding and experience of digital
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills to effectively convey legal advice and documentation in a commercially sound and relevant manner
  • 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
  • Bias for execution

Education:

Post graduate degree in Law from a recognized University


Experience:


At least 5 years Post Qualification experience as in-house legal advisor in a large corporation with multiple locations and manufacturing facilities.

Experience in FMCG or Food companies preferred.

Business Unit Summary

  • Mondelez India Foods Private Limited (formerly Cadbury India Ltd.) has been in India for over 70 years, making sure our mouthwatering and wellloved local and global brands such as _Cadbury_ chocolates, _Bournvita_ and _Tang_ powdered beverages, _Oreo_ and _
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