Senior Manager- Legal (Product Compliance)

TECHNICAL COMPLIANCE SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITY

• Understand and Implement the Technical Compliance Policy and follow the Rules of Procedure in conducting the Technical Compliance committee meetings for all Safety, Regulatory and Emission related topics.
• Legal & Compliance consultation to management and employees and support management in taking over responsibility for technical compliance
• Provide advice in terms of product related legal inquiries and processes as well as legal consultation in the application of Regulatory requirements and standards
• Provide legal expertise and advice on questions in the context of product development and Field Vehicles.
• Provide guidance in legal grey areas (legal requirements and/or internal guidelines). Ongoing monitoring, analysis and assessment of relevant legal frameworks including current developments in legislation. Derive a legal assessment of risks, development of methods, processes and systems as well as guidelines and legal advisory opinions
• Create risk awareness in non-legal business units
• Be part of the DICV local clearing team and involve in assessment of the clearing cases in coordination with tCMS R & D team, clearing team and clearing teams in HQ
• Support development of technical Compliance Management Systems in order to avoid liability and reputational risks
• Ensuring all updates on Control measures and process from HQ are updated to the relevant function and providing adequate support for completion of the process and controls.

• Support to the R &D team on various legal related R &D queries and providing legal opinion on new laws/regulations and sharing legal feedback with respect to any grey area in any Act/Regulaion
• Support and providing legal feedback on communications to Authorities/Ministry / SIAM
• Updating the team on latest changes in relevant laws/Acts/Judgements and sharing legal feedback for the queries raised.

• Handling Litigation filed against the Company
• Evaluate legal claims and strategize handling of litigation.
• Identify and evaluate lawyers for engaging them for handling litigations.
• Draft/Vet written statements, counters, rejoinders etc.
• Legal research and advise lawyers on the legal precedents.
• Close follow-up with lawyers till risks in the litigations are adequately mitigated