Legal Manager

Growth For Impact; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Growth For Impact in Mumbai, India seeks an experienced Legal Counsel to draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts across vendor, manufacturing, logistics, distributors, and service agreements. You will guide consumer law matters and represent the company before consumer forums.

You will ensure compliance with Metrology, labeling, pricing, and declarations, provide business-focused legal advice to operations, supply chain, marketing, and finance, and identify risks with mitigation

Qualifications

• 5+ years of post-qualification legal experience.
• Strong consumer law experience in brands, D2C, FMCG, retail, or e-commerce.
• Proven ability to handle complex, detailed, and operationally messy agreements.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage commercial contracts including vendor, manufacturing, logistics, distributor, and service agreements.
• Handle consumer law matters, including consumer complaints, legal notices, disputes, and representation before consumer forums.
• Ensure compliance with Legal Metrology laws, including labeling, packaging, pricing, and statutory declarations.
• Provide practical, business-aligned legal advice to cross-functional teams including operations, supply chain, marketing, and finance.
• Identify legal risks in business operations and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Manage contract lifecycle, documentation, renewals, and amendments.
• Track regulatory updates impacting consumer goods, e-commerce, and D2C operations.
• Coordinate with external counsel for litigation, disputes, and specialized legal matters.

Skills

Consumer law

Contract negotiation

Contract management

Drafting

Stakeholder management

Operations awareness

Job description

ROLE

• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage commercial contracts including vendor, manufacturing, logistics, distributor, and service agreements
• Handle consumer law matters, including consumer complaints, legal notices, disputes, and representation before consumer forums
• Ensure compliance with Legal Metrology laws, including labeling, packaging, pricing, and statutory declarations
• Provide practical, business-aligned legal advice to cross-functional teams including operations, supply chain, marketing, and finance
• Identify legal risks in business operations and recommend mitigation strategies
• Manage contract lifecycle, documentation, renewals, and amendments
• Track regulatory updates impacting consumer goods, e-commerce, and D2C operations
• Coordinate with external counsel for litigation, disputes, and specialized legal matters

REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of post-qualification legal experience
• Strong experience in consumer law, preferably within consumer brands, D2C, FMCG, retail, e-commerce, or logistics companies
• Proven ability to handle complex, detailed, and operationally messy agreements
• Hands-on, execution-focused, and commercially pragmatic approach
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills