Lead Legal Counsel - India

Deliver an excellent and efficient legal service to the Group primarily advising under Indian law with some advice under English law as required including via BAU advice legal input to strategic projects effective management of legal risk and effective budget management;

Provide effective legal advice to the Group on a broad range of legal practice areas including contracts/outsourcing/IT real estate financial services regulatory (mortgages and savings) employment litigation finance;

Support the Group General Counsel and Company Secretary (GC) to deliver Board and Executive strategic objectives for the Legal team (and to an extent the Environment Social and Governance (ESG) and Company Secretariat (CoSec) teams as required) and other strategic projects as required;

Provide the Legal CoSec and ESG Senior Leadership Team GC ExCo Board and associated Committees with effective MI reporting and effective upward communication;

Scope and deliver key Legal team strategic projects and efficiencies with the overall objective of increasing Legal team productivity and value aligned with the Groups UK legal operations (e.g. integration practice management worktype review and outsourcing/insourcing mix);

Report effectively to and attend various Group Committees and Board as required;

Ensure regular Legal and functional team meetings are run with a focus on knowledgesharing practical actions arising and team development;

Manage Indian Legal budget and headcount effectively including via effective external Panel selection and management recruitment (where necessary and approved) and overflow support;

Ensure that you and your team fully understand and comply with the organisations Risk Management Policies as they relate to your area of responsibility and demonstrate in your day to day work that you put customers at the heart of everything you do.

Ensure that you and your functional team fully understand and comply with the organisations Data Governance Policies as they relate to your area of responsibility and demonstrate in your day to day work that you treat data as an important corporate asset which must be protected and managed.