Legal Counsel

Job Summary

Job Title: Legal Counsel - Sandvik Machining

Location: Pune

Full time /Part Time: Full time

Regular /Temporary: Regular

Purpose: Sandvik Machining is looking for a business minded, experienced and socially confident Legal Counsel to strengthen our global Legal Support team with focus on India and Southeast Asia & Oceania region (SEAO).

The job - empowering the business to make confident decisions

Legal Support is responsible for enabling the business to take informed and balanced decisions across all legal disciplines worldwide, by providing qualitative legal advice and proactively assessing and mitigating key risks of our business. Your primary focus and responsibility would be India and Southeast Asia & Oceania region (SEAO). This requires accuracy, strong integrity and solid business understanding, as well as proficiency across many legal and compliance disciplines. Besides providing legal advice in relation to drafting and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements, an important part of your job is to ensure that we stay compliant with legal and regulatory requirements and applicable laws. This includes implementation of relevant policies and procedures, as well as management of legal training and legal risk management of agreements.

You report directly to the global Head of Legal Support in Sweden. The location for this role is in Pune, India. Travel between our sites in India and some international travel is a natural part of the job.

Requirements

• You possess an India Law degree and at least eight years work experience from a reputable business law firm or within a corporate in-house legal organization with international matters.
• You pay close attention to India's legislative and enforcement trends, have the legal experience needed to act independently and to find legally adequate solutions to various situations, as well as a keen interest to further deepen your knowledge within legal areas of particular importance.
• Solid experience from independently negotiating a variety of commercial agreements (including procurement/sales/distribution, IT/technology and intellectual property) is key for this position.
• Experience handling corporate documentation (including being Secretary of the Board of Directors).
• Experience with Mergers & Acquisitions as well as digitalization or corporate investigations is an asset.
• As we are a global organization, you need excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal, while knowledge in other languages is beneficial.

We place great value on your personal qualities, characterized by your practical, analytical and decisive mindset, your strong integrity and the ability to get things done. You're self-motivated and take initiatives, and as a true team player, you thrive on helping us grow. To gain trust is key in your job, and you do this by building long-term relationships and by offering advice and guidance based on legal experience, sound judgment and thorough business understanding.

This position reports to

This position reports to: Head of Legal Support

Qualifications

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