L'Oreal - Senior Manager - Legal

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Business Divisions, Finance, HR, Commercial Operations, Plant and Corporate colleagues through the full contract management lifecycle. This includes understanding the contract owners needs, precise drafting, rigorous negotiation[SM1] , and closing commercial agreements to ensure business continuity and legal protection as per Group / local norms.
• Regional & Operational Legal Support – Serve as the dedicated Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for plants, warehouses, and regional offices. Provide immediate legal guidance and resolve compliance-related queries to support localized operational efficiency.
• Contribute to the creation and protection of L’Oral India’s assets by advising and guiding internal clients in all areas of the law.
• Take a lead role in the practical implementation of privacy frameworks and ensure the organization remains fully compliant with local and international data protection laws.
• Develop and execute legal strategies for litigations arising within any assigned functional areas.
• Drive compliance by delivering effective communication and training sessions to key stakeholders. Ensure the business is informed about new legislation, providing clear action items to maintain statutory compliance. Manage the digital compliance tracking tools. This involves proactive follow-ups with stakeholders, ensuring the system reflects the latest legislative changes, and providing regular status reports.
• Take full ownership of assigned legal matters, working with a high degree of independence.

Key Competencies:

• ACTS AS A PROACTIVE BUSINESS PARTNER
• Learns brands, products, markets and related issues
• Understands your clients’ organizations, roles and processes to act with more efficiency
• Develops proximity with your clients to facilitate awareness and appropriate reflexes on legal issues
• MANAGES LAWS AND NORMS
• Keeps continuously informed of relevant legal evolutions and internal norms to provide your clients with relevant advice
• Ensures implementation of Law and regulations to secure the business
• Takes part in the development of internal control initiatives, ensuring compliance of operations, making colleagues and business partners aware of relevant points of vigilance
• DECODES AND INFLUENCES
• Listens actively and decodes facts/situations to qualify the right diagnosis
• Imagines alternative options/solutions to match business needs
• Clarifies and simplifies concepts to match the point and advise efficiently to facilitate action and decision making
• PUTS LEGAL EXPERTISE TO THE SERVICE OF BUSINESS PERFORMANCE
• Takes the initiative to share knowledge with colleagues
• Treats information as an asset to ensure the creation, conservation and transmission of the L’Oral know how on legal matters.

Key Relationships:

• Internal - Business Managers
• External - Law Firms, Govt. Bodies, Industrial Association
• Legal colleagues in other countries, or at the Zone or the Group

Travel:

• Travel will be need based

Education:

• A degree in Law from a recognized University
• Qualified to practice as CS would be an added advantage.
• Experience managing or analyzing personal data privacy would be an added advantage

Experience managing or analyzing personal data privacy would be an added advantage L’Oral is committed to building a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. L’Oral closely prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of the individual’s race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.

[SM1]If Legal handles direct negotiations leave in place. However, if (as in other countries) the Contract Owner is largely responsible for negotiations, change this to “assisting with negotiations”