Legal Counsel, Secretarial and Governance
- Employer
- Unilever
- Location
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 27 Dec 2024
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- Sector
- Administration and Secretarial, Audit, Legal, Operations and Facilities Management
- Role
- Professional
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
JOB FUNCTION: Legal
WORK LEVEL: 2
REPORTS TO: Dev Bajpai
SCOPE: Local
WORK LOCATION: Mumbai HO
JOB AUTHORISATION: Full time
ABOUT UNILEVER
With 3.4 billion people in over 190 countries using our products every day, Unilever is a business that makes a real impact on the world. Work on brands that are loved and improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We are driven by our purpose: to make sustainable living commonplace, and it is our belief that doing business the right way drives superior performance. At the heart of what we do is our people - we believe that when our people work with purpose, we will create a better business and a better world.
At Unilever, your career will be a unique journey, grounded in our inclusive, collaborative, and flexible working environment. We don't believe in the 'one size fits all' approach and instead we will equip you with the tools you need to shape your own future.
FUNCTION INTRODUCTION
Hindustan Unilever Limited has a robust legal function designed to support its diverse business operations. The legal team is led by Dev Bajpai, who oversees a team of over 36 lawyers, along with secretarial, brand protection, and support staff.
The team is structured to provide specialized legal support across various business verticals, including beauty & wellbeing, home care, nutrition, personal care, customer development, and supply chain.
The legal function at HUL is integral to ensuring compliance, managing risks, and supporting the company's strategic initiatives across its extensive operations.
JOB PURPOSE:
Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do - creating a better business and a better world. If you are willing to make a difference in the company secretarial space, then this role is just for you!
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
1.Company Secretarial activities
- Taking care of end-to-end secretarial activities.
- Agenda preparation, stakeholder management, placing for board approvals and arranging board meetings (pre and post).
- Spoc for annual report of the company.
- Managing investor relations-responding and resolving the queries.
2)Legal business partner
- Providing guidance on legal aspects for CSR and sustainability departments.
3)Mergers & Acquisitions
- Working collaboratively with the M&A team and guide them on documentation.
4.Corporate Governance
- Establish and maintain the rules and procedures for the company's operations, ensuring transparency and accountability.
5. Stakeholder Management
- Connecting with Management Committee & board members.
- Identifying and bridging the gap with the stakeholders to ensure premium delivery of the expectation is the key aspect of this role.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED
EXPERIENCES AND QUALIFICATIONS
- Essential Experience -12 to 15 yrs of work experience
- Desirable Experience-12 to 15 yrs of work experience in a listed company
- Educational Qualification-LLB+ CS is preferred
KEY SKILLS REQUIRED Company Secretary, Business Partnering, Shareholder Management, Stakeholder management.
LEADERSHIP
- You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others - both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
- As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.
- Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
o PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Generates intensity and focus to motivate people to deliver results at speed. Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results.
o TALENT CATALYST: Invests in people - coaches individuals and teams to realize their full potential. Creates an inclusive climate, empowering everyone to be at their best.
o PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
o CONSUMER LOVE: Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
o BUSINESS ACUMEN: Creates sustainable growth with purpose, engaging different partners across the system for change.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
Additional Information
Please apply online by clicking on "Apply Now" below. Your application will be reviewed against our requirements. Should you not meet our immediate requirements, your profile will be registered in our talent pool system, and we will match your profile to suitable future vacancies.
Company
Be part of the most successful purpose-led business in the world. Have the opportunity to see the true impact that you’re having in the work you do - every small thing counts. The personal contribution you make means you feel good about what you do and proud that you have a career with a higher purpose. Be empowered to make a positive impact, by bringing your purpose into action.
Be a force for good. Unleash your curiosity and pioneering spirit to make our business win and grow. Use your confidence to challenge the status quo for the better, while you learn, grow and make a positive impact.
"Diversity & Inclusion is one of the things that we want Unilever to be famous for.
This means making sure our business is fair, attracting and retaining
the very best talent and helping them unlock their full potential."
Alan Jope, Chief Executive Officer
Dove, Lipton, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Lynx, Knorr, Surf. Our world-famous brands are totally different – and as people, so are we. Be surrounded by individually different but like-minded people who share your values, commitment and desire to start or pursue a career across different cultures and levels of seniority where you do good things every day. Bring your real self to work, here we combine our differences to achieve greater things.
Develop into your best self. Get inspired by leaders and peers and create life-shaping experiences for yourself. Unilever offers an inspirational working environment where you will be mentored and nurtured by bright minds and purpose-led leaders. Use your skills and knowledge, and the tools we provide you to experience all that Unilever can offer across brands and around the world. You have the ability to craft a flexible – and global – career.
Our policies & flexible working
At Unilever, we have a range of market-leading, family-friendly and flexible working policies, which enable our employees to balance their day-to-day responsibilities.
These policies and practices include:
- Agile working, which gives employees the possibility to work remotely and flex their own hours, whilst ensuring business needs are met.
- Flexible working arrangements including, but not limited to, part-time and job share opportunities.
- Enhanced leave policies - all employees taking maternity or shared parental leave have up to 16 weeks’ paid leave and some eligible employees can have up to 39 weeks’ paid leave. In addition, our Maternity & Paternity Services portal provides online resources to support employees at all stages of parenthood, as well as tailored guidance for line managers.
- Practical support including, nursery benefits and back-up care for parents and carers.
- A constant focus on wellbeing for employees, including regular health checks, mental health support and our Employee Assistance Programme.
Mentoring & training
We have a strong culture of mentoring, training and learning across the organisation, with a range of resources and initiatives available:
- Mentoring and coaching
- Leadership and general business skills training, including unconscious bias
- Learning for all, via access to internal and external resources
- Workshops which support personal and team development.
Our ambition: unlocking talent through disability inclusion
The World Health Organization estimates that there are one billion people in the world currently living with a disability. That’s about 15% of the global population, or 1 in 7 of us. And the statistics suggest that people living with disabilities are among the most marginalised populations in the world in terms of employment and educational opportunity.
Removing the barriers facing people living with disability is a priority for our business. It isn’t just the right thing to do – we believe that creating equality of opportunity will unlock a huge pool of talent. It also gets to the heart of the ambition to ‘leave no one behind’ – and could contribute to the five Sustainable Development Goals which explicitly reference disability and to the wider sustainable development agenda.
In 2018, we set ourselves global commitments to achieve by 2025:
- to be the number one employer of choice for people with disabilities, and
- to increase the number of employees with disabilities to 5% of our total workforce.
These are ambitious targets. They involve transforming the way we recruit and train our people. And they mean adapting both the way we work and our workplaces, so that we can support people with disabilities to reach their full potential.
"We cannot be an inclusive organisation unless we ensure that we have created the conditions
and the culture for people with a disability to thrive."
Leena Nair, our Chief HR Officer
We are keen to find out about your talent, and offer the support you need.
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