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Job Description
**Job Purpose:**
India is a key growth market for Petcare and Pet Nutrition (brands like Pedigree and Whiskas)/Royal Canin RGM regions specifically with a complex and evolving legal and regulatory environment.
**This role serves as the strategic legal business partner to Pet Nutrition and Royal Canin India**
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**enabling compliant growth while identifying and managing legal risk**
. The role provides pragmatic, commercial legal counsel to support the business’s long\-term ambitions in India.
**Key Responsibilities**
* **Strategic Legal Counse**
l: Act as a strategic business partner, offering legal guidance and direction to Petcare businesses in India, primarily for Pet Nutrition (PN) and Royal Canin (RC)
* **Corporate Governance and Complianc**
e: Oversee corporate governance, secretarial compliances, and CSR compliance for the Mars Petcare segment, including managing board meetings, and ensuring all records and returns are maintained
* **Contract and Litigation Managemen**
t: Handle all aspects of contracts, from templating and negotiation to risk management. This also includes managing litigation, legal notices, and challenges before the Advertising Standards Council of Indi
* **Crisis Management and Internal Committee**
s: Serve as the Legal Lead for the Crisis Management Team and as a member of the Internal Complaints Committee for the Prevention of Sexual Harassment at the Workplace
* **Cross\-Functional Collaboratio**
n: Work closely with various teams such as Sales, S\&F, Ethics \& Compliance, P\&O, and Regulatory to identify and mitigate risks, ensuring all business operations and projects are within the legal framework
* **Leadership and IT Enablemen**
t: Build legal capabilities within the business, manage legal resources, and drive the digitization of compliance management and other legal processes.
**Job Specifications/Qualifications**
* The position requires an attorney with a minimum of 8\+ years of experience
* Generalist lawyer with the ability to handle the broad spectrum of day–to\-day legal affairs of the business and corporate secretarial compliance.
* Experience of working in FMCG or Pharma