Manager Legal, Secretarial & Compliance

Role mandate

Create an internal legal, secretarial and corporate-compliance owner who protects NIDOs commercial and corporate interests while enabling fast, practical business execution.

What success looks like

• Improve contract quality and turnaround for customer/vendor/partner agreements.
• Maintain clean corporate, board/shareholder and statutory governance.
• Create a reliable compliance calendar and legal-risk register.
• Reduce dependency on external counsel for routine matters while using specialists intelligently.
• Strengthen IP, confidentiality and dispute/documentation discipline.

Key responsibilities

• Review, draft and negotiate NDAs, customer/vendor agreements, service/AMC/MAS/rental contracts, channel/partner agreements and other commercial documents.
• Own company secretarial coordination, board/shareholder documentation, statutory registers/filings and governance calendar, with external CS support where required.
• Maintain corporate compliance calendar and coordinate closure with Finance, HR, Operations and external specialists.
• Manage legal notices, disputes, claims, documentation and external counsel.
• Support IP/confidentiality/trademark/patent coordination with Product/Engineering and external IP counsel.
• Create contract templates, clause playbooks, approval matrices and legal repositories.
• Support corporate transactions, fundraising/diligence and governance documentation when required.

Decision rights & boundaries

• Payroll statutory compliance remains Finance.
• HR/labour compliance remains HR with legal support.
• EHS/operational compliance remains Operations.
• Cybersecurity compliance remains Enterprise IT; Legal supports contractual/regulatory interpretation.
• Role is an enabling business counsel, not an approval bottleneck.

Ideal candidate profile

Practical in-house legal/compliance professional comfortable in B2B commercial contracts and company-secretarial/corporate governance coordination in a growing Indian company.

Experience & qualifications

• 7 - 12+ years relevant experience; LLB required. CS qualification/exposure is a strong advantage.
• Strong commercial contracting; manufacturing/technology/project/service agreements preferred.
• Working knowledge of Companies Act/corporate governance and compliance management.
• Ability to manage external counsel and prioritise risk pragmatically