Manager - Legal Counsel

Transport is at the core of modern society. Imagine using your expertise to shape sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions for the future. If you seek to make a difference on a global scale, working with next-gen technologies and the sharpest collaborative teams, then we could be a perfect match. 

What you will do

Provide sound and independent legal counsel and advice across corporate, commercial, contract, compliance, litigation and regulatory matters. Partner with business leaders and functions to identify legal risks, develop pragmatic solutions, and support the organization in achieving its business objectives while maintaining very high level of legal and compliance standards. Support the business as a strategic legal partner across Operations, Technology, Purchasing, Sales & Marketing, HR, Finance and other functions.

Your key responsibilities

Legal Advisory & Business Partnering:

• Provide day-to-day legal advice to business functions on operational, commercial, and strategic matters.
• Understand business requirements and provide practical legal solutions while identifying and mitigating legal and commercial risks.
• Partner with stakeholders across Operations, Technology, Purchasing, Sales & Marketing, HR and other functions on legal matters.
• Conduct and coordinate legal research on a variety of legal issues.

Contracts & Commercial Matters:

• Draft, review, negotiate and finalize a variety of commercial contracts, NDAs, SLAs, and SOWs.
• Conduct due diligence reviews considering applicable global and local requirements, business complexity and organizational policies, with a focus on mitigating legal and commercial risk.
• Review commercial terms relating to purchase orders, invoices, letters of credit, bank guarantees, etc.

Corporate, Compliance & Regulatory:

• Advise on applicable corporate, commercial, labour and other regulatory requirements.
• Strengthen legal compliance processes and support internal audits of legal documentation and processes.
• Provide compliance awareness trainings.
• Liaise with various regulatory authorities and respond to legal notices, regulatory queries, etc.

Litigation & Dispute Management:

• Manage and coordinate civil, criminal, consumer, arbitration, product liability, service liability, IPR and labour-related disputes.
• Develop litigation strategy, coordinate with external counsel and support matters through investigation, documentation, negotiation and resolution.
• Draft/review legal notices, petitions and documents in consultation with management & external counsel.
• Ensure timely follow-up, effective case management and speedy resolution of disputes.
• Support litigation avoidance and legal risk minimization through stronger contracts, processes and preventive legal controls.

Intellectual Property & Technology:

• Provide legal support on intellectual property, trademarks, technology-related matters, software licensing, IT services and digitalization initiatives.
• Review technology and digital business arrangements and advise on related legal and commercial risks.
• Provide legal guidance on new products, technologies, AI initiatives and digital transformation projects, coordinating with specialist teams where required.

E-Legal / Legal Digitalization:

• Support implementation and effective use of legal digitalization tools.
• Review relevant checklists and coordinate with stakeholders for effective implementation.
• Identify opportunities to improve legal processes and systems, enabling effective compliance, efficient ways of working, and better coordination with internal teams.

Data Privacy, AI & Cybersecurity:

• Design and implement Data Privacy and the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) framework, with an understanding of GDPR and other applicable privacy frameworks.
• Draft, review and negotiate privacy-related clauses, agreements, notices and policies.
• Support data mapping, data retention, consent management, and cross-border data transfer reviews.
• Provide legal guidance on AI/Generative AI governance and associated legal or compliance risks, as well as new products, technologies and digital transformation initiatives.
• Understand cybersecurity / information security legal risks sufficiently to identify key legal implications, ask the right questions, and coordinate with specialist teams.
• Coordinate with IT, Cybersecurity, HR, Procurement and business teams on privacy and technology-related compliance initiatives.

Knowledge of handling assets and employee-related insurance matters, including insurance renewal requirements and claims support, will be an advantage.

Who are you?

You are a LLB or LLM from a leading University with 10–15 years of relevant legal experience, preferably with strong in-house legal exposure in a multinational, automotive, manufacturing and technology organization, including exposure to R&D environments. You can work independently, manage multiple priorities, and advise senior stakeholders with sound legal judgement under high-stress, time-critical conditions. You have strong capabilities in contracts, commercial law, corporate law, IPR, compliance, litigation, and legal risk management. Exposure to Data Privacy/DPDP, AI, and Cybersecurity related legal topics are an additional advantage. Excellent analytical, legal research and problem-solving skills with the capability to challenge status quo. You can take a firm stand, are a team player, maintain a positive and collaborative approach, and handle conflicts constructively. You have experience in a global organization and exposure to international stakeholders. You have very good written and oral communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex legal matters clearly and simply to business stakeholders. If you can read and write Kannada, it will be an added advantage.

We value your data privacy and therefore do not accept applications via mail. 

Who we are and what we believe in 
We are committed to shaping the future landscape of efficient, safe, and sustainable transport solutions. Fulfilling our mission creates countless career opportunities for talents across the group’s leading brands and entities.

Applying to this job offers you the opportunity to join Volvo Group. Every day, you will be working with some of the sharpest and most creative brains in our field to be able to leave our society in better shape for the next generation. ​We are passionate about what we do, and we thrive on teamwork. ​We are almost 100,000 people united around the world by a culture of care, inclusiveness, and empowerment. 

Group Legal & Compliance contributes to realizing the vision of the Volvo Group by coordinating and providing services within the following areas: Legal, Governance, Security and Internal Audit. With Volvo Group Legal & Compliance you will be part of a global and diverse team of highly skilled professionals who work with passion, trust each other and embrace change to stay ahead.