License Compliance Manager

DMart; Thane; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

DMart in Thane, Maharashtra is seeking a Licenses & Compliance Lead to guide NSO teams and store operations on licenses and regulatory requirements. This role involves monitoring government portals, coordinating with legal and operations, ensuring timely license renewals, and supporting audit readiness.

Ideal for detail-oriented professionals with strong knowledge of FSSAI, Shop Act, Legal Metrology, and pan-India license processes.

Responsibilities

• Guiding NSO team for new upcoming stores regarding licenses required for operation of stores and providing necessary directives.
• Review of licenses shared by NSO team and ensuring compliance across stores and DCs.
• Monitoring key government portals and GRs, notifications, advisories, Stock Control Orders, etc.
• Ensuring FSSAI Relabeller compliances including lab tests, expiry reports, and annual returns.
• Modifying Relabeller License for vendor mapping and mapping stores & DCs in the FSSAI license.
• Ensuring EC Act compliances for all stores and DCs by updating stocks on government portals weekly.
• Applying for HO central licenses like FSSAI, Shop Act, Legal Metrology, etc., for new and renewing licenses.
• Monitoring pan-India licenses for stores and DCs to ensure timely renewals.
• Guiding operations/legal teams on amendments in acts/GR/GO like FSSAI, Legal Metrology, WDL/RDL, etc.
• Providing MIS reports to management on licenses, Fire NOC, Lift, Genset, etc.
• Guiding Store Managers/ASM/DCs/FCs/Pcs for applying for licenses/renewals with affidavits and undertakings.
• Co-ordinating with legal team to provide FSA nominations and replies to notices.
• Solving audit/internal SAP queries pertaining to licenses.
• Handling queries about cancellation of licenses and compliance from store managers.
• Daily PM module monitoring for pending licenses, creating triggers for new stores and license renewals.
• Guiding team on checking, verification, rejection, and confirmation of licenses.
• Managing changes in director, license names, nominee changes and updating licenses.
• Assisting in approvals/permissions/NOC for upcoming projects and providing clarity to management.
• Supporting building approvals/permissions/NOC for handovers of new stores pan-India.
• Preparing application drafts in English and providing instruction notes to stores for execution.
• Liaisoning and travel as needed.

Job description

Job Description

1. Guiding NSO team for new upcoming stores like what are the licenses

required for operation of stores. Review of Licenses once shared by NSO

Team and providing necessary directives to NSO team and store operations.

2. Keeping a close watch on all the relevant portals and government websites

for all the relevant GRs, Notifications, Advisories, Stock Control Orders etc.

3. Ensuring FSSAI Relabeller Compliances such as Lab Tests, Quarterly Expiry &

Rejection Reports, D1 Annual Return on time to time basis. Ensuring

Modification of Relabeller License for Vendor Mapping and Mapping of

stores & DCs in Head Office FSSAI License.

4. Ensuring EC Act Compliances for all the stores and DCs such as updating

stocks on weekly basis on government portals, providing support to stores

and DCs in ensuring strict compliance.

5. Applying for HO Central licenses like FSSAI, Shop Act, Legal Metrology etc.

New as well as renewal of licenses for all the group companies.

6. Monitoring pan India licenses for stores/dc and to ensure that renewal of

licenses is done in time.

7. Guiding Operation team /legal team in case of any amendment in act

/GR/GO like FSSAI, Legal Metrology, WDL/RDL, 365 days etc.

8. Providing MIS Report to Management like Licenses, Fire NOC, Lift, Genset

etc.

9. Guiding Store Managers/ASM/DCs/FCs/Pcs for applying for licenses

/renewal of licenses providing affidavit, undertaking etc.

10. Co-ordinating with Legal Team for providing FSA Nomination, providing

support to legal team in giving reply to Licenses in case of any notices

received and legal issue arises.

11. Solving Audit/Internal SAP query pertaining to licenses.

12. Solving queries of Store Managers or any concern persons pertaining to

cancellation of licenses, compliance etc.

13. Day to day monitoring in PM Modul (In-house SAP base software) about

pending licenses, creation of new store & licenses, creating trigger for

AM/CH/AVP, Transfer of licenses to new AM/CH/AVP, updating

registration/state/central licenses i.e. new as well as renewal of licenses,

removing trigger etc.

14. Guiding team with regards to checking, verification, rejecting, confirmation

of licenses.

15. In case of any changes in director, name of licenses, changes in nominee

than guiding and ensuring operation team to make necessary changes in

licenses.

16. Verification and confirmation of approvals, permissions, NOC, licenses

pertaining to upcoming green field project, BTS etc. Raising queries in case

of any deficiencies and giving clarity to the management.

17. Assisting and verification of Building approvals/permissions/Noc in giving

hand over approval for new store across the Pan India.

18. Providing support and documents to project team like affidavit,

undertaking, application etc.

19. All kindly of application drafting in English - directly or indirectly incidental

to the subject matter is must and instruction note to be provided to

Store/Individual team for appropriate execution.

20. Liaisoning and Travelling, in case of need.