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Job Post: Vacancy for Senior Legal Counsel at Flipkart, Bangalore

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About The Role & What You’ll Do

  1. Ability to strategically handle and advise the Flipkart Group on all matters relating Flipkart’s e-commerce operations.
  2. Provide legal advisory on impactful strategic business opportunities and support with the
    launch of new business initiatives and constructs.
  3. Provide legal clarifications on new and existing regulations such as FDI in ecommerce, PPI guidelines, data privacy, drugs and cosmetics, Food safety and standard regulations,
    business correspondent and outsourcing guidelines, nodal account guidelines, payment
    aggregator and payment gateway guidelines, Information Technology (Intermediary)
    Guidelines, OTT guidelines, legal metrology guidelines etc.
  4. Research into new laws, regulations and legal regime that may impact e-commerce in India and advise on regulatory requirements, legal risks and mitigation strategies.
  5. Collaborate closely with business partners to resolve all legal issues and mitigate liability
    risks.
  6. Build awareness of legal risk exposures and set up policies and processes for legal risk
    identification and mitigation.
  7. Risk spotting- Proactively identifying matters that could potentially impact the Flipkart
    Group
  8. Initiates cross-functional efforts to drive organizational alignment
  9. Demonstrate maturity, judgement and functional expertise when solving legal issues and
    dealing with business stakeholders
  10. Draft, review and negotiate commercial contracts relating to marketing, collaboration,
    advertisement, software and IT hardware etc

What you will need?

  1. LLB/LLM from a reputed Law College
  2. Strong foundation in all laws which are applicable to the ecommerce sector.
  3. 8-10 years of experience as an in-house counsel/in a law firm
  4. Collaborative, with the ability to build and sustain business relationships.
  5. Decisive as a leader who takes ownership of actions and responsibilities with the ability to take constructive stand on difficult issues
  6. Good organizational and interpersonal skills, including ability to work effectively within a
    team in a fast-paced dynamic business environment.
  7. Enable business without compromising on the process.
  8. Ability to multitask, meet tight deadlines, prioritise, plan, coordinate and execute on
    assignments
  9. Good team player with a collaborative approach in completing assignments.
  10. Meticulous and punctual.
  11. Leverage business understanding / functional expertise to deliver value to stakeholders
  12. Strong communication skills and excellent command over English (both oral and written) with the ability to interface with people across all levels in the organization
  13. Adept to work on high bandwidth and support variety of business needs

Open Positions

1 (One)

Skills Required

Strong foundation in all laws which are applicable to the ecommerce sector and relevant experience

Location

Bangalore, Karnataka

Educational Qualification

LL.B/LL.M

Desirable Skills

Ability to manage a team, take important and strategic calls, have excellent stakeholder management

Years Of Exp

8 to 10 Years

Application Link

Apply online here: Senior Legal Counsel Bangalore,Karnataka @www.flipkartcareers.com

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