Specialist Legal Counsel

Hewlett Packard Enterprise India Private Limited; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 2,400,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Personal & Professional Development

Unconditional Inclusion

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise India Private Limited is seeking an Attorney - Specialist Legal Counsel in a hybrid setup, requiring on average two days per week from an HPE office. The role involves providing specialized legal advice to internal clients, shaping strategies on key risk and policy areas, and guiding complex commercial transactions.

Candidates should have an advanced law degree (JD/LLB), a licensed practice in India, and about 10+ years of commercial legal experience.

Qualifications

• Advanced university degree in law (e.g. JD or LLB) and licensed to practice.
• Significant experience with commercial legal matters and transactions.
• Strong negotiation, advisory and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialized legal expertise to assigned internal clients.
• Develop and implement legal strategies impacting revenue, risk or policy.
• Mentor team members and share expertise across the organization.
• Represent the company in complex transactions, disputes and regulatory matters.

Skills

Legal expertise

Negotiation

Presentation

Education

Advanced degree in law (JD/LLB)

Job description

Attorney - Specialist Legal Counsel

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description

Within HPE, our Operations, Legal and Admin teams work across the business, providing visible accountability and measurable outcomes. With a variety of roles and responsibilities these teams really connect the dots, giving us the essential insights, support and capability to accelerate our transformation to be the world’s edge to cloud company. Join us redefine what’s next for you.

Job Family Definition

Acts as legal advisor to assigned internal clients or other company attorneys with respect to matters related to the area of specialty. Identifies legal risk and recommends solutions that help address the client’s objectives. Represents company in transactions, interactions, or disputes with customers, suppliers, partners, and competitors. Balances the business interests of client groups with ultimate fiduciary responsibility to company. Represents the company before industry policy setting organizations, government agencies, and other regulatory bodies. Areas of law practiced may include intellectual property law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate securities law, litigation, employment, structured financial deals, US government contracting, outsourcing, environmental, employee benefits, or bankruptcy.

Management Level Definition

Unique mastery and recognized authority on relevant subject matter knowledge including technologies, theories and techniques. Contributes to the development of innovative principles and ideas. Successfully operates in the most complex disciplines, in which the company must operate to be successful. Provides highly innovative solutions. Leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects that affect the organization’s long-term goals and objectives. May participate in cross-division, multi-function teams. Provides mentoring and guidance to lower level employees. Routinely exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and criteria for achieving objectives. Develops strategy and sets functional policy and direction. Acts as a functional manager within area of expertise but does not manage other employees as a primary job function.

What you’ll do:

• Responsibilities: Manages the development of legal strategies by providing specialized legal expertise in one or more areas of strategic importance or having significant impact on revenue, risk, or policy for client base.
• Plans and facilitates training and mentoring sessions with other team members and clients to share expertise on a variety of subtopics related to a specific legal concentration.
• Identifies and resolves highly complex legal, regulatory, and business issues requiring highly specialized knowledge and judgment.
• Acts as a master of the area of specialization by networking effectively to share subject matter expertise across a broad cross-section of the organization.

What you need to bring:

Education and Experience Required: Advanced university degree in law (e.g. JD or LLB); additional advanced degree relevant to the specialty preferred. Meets local legal license requirements. Typically 10+ years commercial legal experience at a law firm or in-house. Significant experience managing multiple, complex, strategic, specialty law projects, issues, and transactions.

Knowledge and Skills: Mastery of practical and academic knowledge within a specific legal concentration, and a recognized authority in one or more sub-areas within the specific legal concentration. Deep knowledge of company policies, procedures, and practices relevant to the specialty. Developed understanding of how to operate successfully in the international legal environment for the specific legal concentration. Mastery in negotiating or advising senior representatives of external and internal organizations on complex and high value/risk matters in a specialty. Excellent presentation, facilitation, and networking skills. English language skills to business standard required.

Impact/Scope: Scope includes supporting one or more parts of global or regional business or leading complex commercial transactions. Impact includes providing specialized legal expertise in one or more areas of strategic importance to client base.

Accessibility

HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here. Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.

What We Can Offer You:

• Health & Wellbeing We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have - whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.
• Unconditional Inclusion We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together. HPE is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities. HPE will comply with all applicable laws related to employer use of arrest and conviction records, including laws requiring employers to consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories.

Experience Level

Mid Level