Head of Legal India

Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited


ZEE - Manager - Legal/Non Litigation/Contract Drafting/Copyright Law
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited • Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra • via LinkedIn
11 hours ago
Full–time
Apply on LinkedIn
Apply on IIM Jobs
Job description
Manager - Legal/Non Litigation/Contract Drafting/Copyright Law

Key Accountabilities
• Manage flow of a wide range of agreements including performance releases, sponsorship, consulting, licensing, vendor, marketing, digital services, representation and production contracts.
• Advise teams on various business issues including intellectual property, privacy, content regulation, consumer protection, antitrust/competition laws, litigation, employment, advertising laws and regulations, as well as law enforcement and other related issues.
• Draft, restructure, negotiate and advise on a broad range of commercial contracts including master service agreements, service level agreements/statement of works, addendums, amendments.
• Draft, review and negotiate vendor contracts in line with the company's vendor onboarding framework.
• Draft reply to show cause notices, letters, any communication received from the regulators.
• Collaborate with internal business partners (e.g., creative and production), cross-functional partners (e.g., intellectual property, tax and marketing), and other key partners (e.g., finance) on miscellaneous day-to-day issues that arise across the various shows
• Coordinate, organize, prepare and interpret legal documents, build and maintain relevant databases and files.
• Anticipate and identify legal issues of concern to the Company and proactively develops effective legal strategies and practical solutions; Protect the organization's rights in contract negotiations, settlements, and litigation.
• Maintain database of key legal terms, SLAs and ensure internal compliance.
• Maintain repository of all standard and negotiated contracts, manage workflow, and ensure compliance from draft to delivery.
• Identify legal issues and risks that may affect the business thereby ensuring that the business leadership is properly advised concerning those issues.
• Mitigate compliance risks, implement the legal and regulatory risk compliance program and ensure the business is in compliance with local and international legislation and regulation.
• Lead legal research, analysis, interpreting and advising new laws and regulations to various teams such as content, operations, finance, HR, etc.
• Stay up-to-date on relevant industry, commercial, open source, IP, privacy, employment, and other laws, regulations, and developments to be able to give the most effective advice.

(ref:iimjobs.com)
Report this listing
Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited
AmbitionBox
3.5/5
573 reviews
Glassdoor
3.1/5
648 reviews
Indeed
3.+/5
147 reviews
zee.com
More jobs at Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited
See web results for Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited

Sanofi


Head of Legal India
Sanofi • Maharashtra • via Indeed
8 hours ago
Full–time
Apply on Indeed
Job description
• Location: Mumbai
• Travel: Occasional - based on business need
• Job type: Permanent

About Sanofi:

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Our Team:

The legal team at Sanofi is focused on collaborating with our businesses to find effective and efficient solutions to fit their commercial needs. As trusted advisors seeking to foster innovation and advancing company strategy, our lawyers are engaged in supporting on matters ranging from risks, transactions, contracting, general advisory, litigation, public policy initiatives to transformational and transversal projects within and outside of Sanofi.

As the Legal Director India, you will be expected to play a key role in partnering with the business to enable competitive growth for Sanofi in India, provide prompt and thorough advise on topics ranging from complex, sensitive to routine matters in a timely and thoughtful manner. You will also be expected to lead and collaborate, both within the India legal teams as also with the global Legal teams to maximise on the team’s potential to grow and deliver on the Company’s strategy and goals.

Main responsibilities:
• Lead initiatives to grow the business and manage organisational risk in line with organisational strategies.
• Challenge and shift mindsets in defining clearly, allocation of roles and responsibilities in line with Global Legal department vision to be able to focus on value-added work in a collaborative manner with relevant teams
• Support strategically and operationally on transformation projects for the territories within scope of responsibility.
• Partner with business heads in development and execution of business plans and legal implications of these for our businesses in India.
• Identify, evaluate and address risks thoughtfully on business initiatives and provide quality, practical, expert legal advice and support to the business and functional teams.
• Design and implement strategic legal initiatives and solutions for India while maintaining a right balance with local laws, regulations and company protection.
• Help build and strengthen risk assessment processes for existing business in countries within scope by directing, developing, finalizing control measures, systems and processes on legal issues and procedures towards bettering risk management.
• Prepare, negotiate and manage key contracts and other documentation governing commercial relationships with third parties.
• Evaluate, advise, interpret and disseminate information on any significant changes in law and support with required compliances.
• Identify key legal issues and principles and how they relate to markets, relationship types, products, services.
• Liase and/or represent the company with the regulatory or statutory authorities as and when required.
• Structure and negotiate complex transactions with speed and efficiency.
• Strategise to prevent, mitigate and address potential litigation.
• Manage existing litigation work, external lawyer engagement and court processes in keeping with organisational policies.
• Align with and participate actively in assigned cross-functional projects and initiatives.
• Constantly stay up to date re. and monitor legal/regulatory environment, anticipate changes early and render required training to business stakeholders and support in gap assessment initiatives
• Demonstrate initiative, drive, proactiveness and agility with work.
• Escalate issues on timely basis where needed and seek guidance to ensure parity in management of legal topics.
• Gauge, develop and retain talent in the team. Continually review existing resources and their utilization by delineating work within the team. Ensure awareness of company policies and procedures and support the team with enhancing the same and assuring compliance with these. Implement and strengthen optimal ways of working within the team.
• Act with transparency ensuring the highest ethical standards in a complex and changing environment

About you:

Experience:
• 15+ years of in-house experience and/or law firm experience.
• Previous life sciences experience preferred
• Substantial previous commercial legal experience, including commercial drafting
• Experience in litigation management or advisory

Soft skills:
• Able to work effectively within a team and independently where required
• Driven, motivated, engaged and capable of managing own workload, with flexible approach to changing priorities
• Calm and effective under pressure
• Good influencing skills and have experience in effective relationship building, networking & management

Technical skills:
• Fluent in English with strong communication skills, written and verbal
• Analytical skills with good ability to undertake research on legal and non-legal aspects relevant for resolution of matters
• Exceptional legal drafting skills
• Demonstrate sound legal judgment and business acumen
• Good knowledge of Indian pharma laws

Education/Qualifications:
• Law degree from a recognised university in India

Team spirit:

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, ****** orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!