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Job Description
Requisition ID: 7832
Location:
Thane (W), MH, IN, 400604
Business Unit / Group Function: Legal & Compliance
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Level of Experience: Upper management
Requisition ID: [[id]]
Location: Thane
Business Unit/Group Function: Legal & Compliance
Work Arrangement: Onsite
Level of Experience: Upper management
Employee Type: Regular
Salary Grade: Managerial MG II
Job Highlights
The Head – Legal leads the organization’s legal, governance, and compliance framework at the corporate level and provides strategic and operational legal oversight to two manufacturing sites. The role serves as principal legal advisor to the Board and senior leadership, ensuring legal risk mitigation, statutory compliance, governance excellence, and effective support to business operations.
Key Responsibilities
Board Matters & Corporate Governance
- Conduct Board, Committee, and Shareholders’ Meetings in compliance with applicable laws; prepare notices, agendas, explanatory notes, minutes, and resolutions.
- Advise the Board on legal, regulatory, and governance matters; update on legal and regulatory changes and ensure implementation and follow‑up of Board decisions.
- Oversee preparation of the Annual Report and lead development and implementation of Board‑level policies, Codes of Conduct, and governance frameworks.
- Coordinate criminal and sensitive cases relating to Directors with external counsel.
Corporate Legal & Sites Oversight
- Manage corporate law matters and, where applicable, discharge Company Secretary functions, including statutory records, filings, and corporate documentation.
- Ensure compliance with the Companies Act and other corporate regulations.
- Advise plant leadership on applicable laws; support regulatory inspections, audits, notices, queries, and disputes at manufacturing sites.
Contracts, Litigation & Compliance
- Draft, review, negotiate, and standardize customer, vendor, procurement, service, and strategic agreements; advise business teams on legal and commercial risk mitigation.
- Manage all litigation (civil, commercial, labour, regulatory, and criminal); coordinate with external counsel and drive resolution strategies.
- Establish and monitor a legal compliance framework; identify and mitigate legal risks across corporate and plant operations, including support on M&A and restructuring.
Employment & Stakeholder Interface
- Advise on employment contracts, disciplinary proceedings, inquiries, separations, and lead internal investigations.
- Draft and respond to critical government and regulatory notices.
- Interact with and advise the Managing Director, Board Members, local LANXESS Leadership Team, and the global legal organization.
Experience / Skills
- Specific Education : LLB / LLM from a recognized university; Company Secretary preferred.
- Work Experience : > 10 years
- Special Skills : Strategic & Analytical Skills, Stakeholder & Communication Skills, Leadership & People Management, Governance & Compliance Skills
Contract Type: Regular
If the chemistry is right, we can make a difference at LANXESS: speed up sports, make beverages last longer, add more color to leisure time and much more.
As a leading specialty chemicals group, we develop and produce chemical intermediates, additives, specialty chemicals and high-tech plastics. With more than 13,000 employees. Be part of it!
What We Offer You
- Compensation: We offer competitive compensation packages, inclusive of a global bonus program and an individual performance bonus program.
- Comprehensive Benefits: We provide a mixture of various benefits to support your financial security, health and wellbeing including retirement plans, health programs, life insurance and medical care.
- Work-Life & Flexibility: We support you in maintaining a balance between working hours and personal life. With our global “Xwork” program, we offer flexible working arrangements in all countries in which we operate.
- Training & Development: We are committed to your professional and personal development and encourage you in the ongoing pursuit of education, training and knowledge through both formal and informal learning.
- Diversity: For us, talent matters, we welcome everyone who commits to our values. We strongly believe that including diverse perspectives makes us more innovative and enhances our competitiveness. Therefore, we embrace the uniqueness of every single individual and are truly committed to supporting our people in developing their individual potential.
Join the LANXESS team!
Job Details
Role Level: Director Work Type: Full-Time Country: India City: Thane ,Maharashtra Company Website: https://lanxess.com/ Job Function: Legal & Compliance Company Industry/
Sector: Chemical Manufacturing
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