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Deadline Open Deadline

Location Pipeline Road, Phase -1, Peenya Industrial Area, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560058

Salary As per industry standards

Details of the Organization

Founded in 1917, John Crane is a global leader in the design, manufacturing, and engineering of mission-critical flow control solutions for increased efficiency, emission reductions, and energy transformation. Their products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies. John Crane customer service is accessed through a global network of more than 200 global sites in over 50 countries employing more than 6,000 employees worldwide.

Details of the Job/Internship

John Crane is hiring an Associate General Counsel to join their office in Bengaluru.

Role and Responsibilities

Responsible for providing strategic corporate and commercial legal advice across John Crane, APAC supporting all legal matters including M&A (with support from CoE), commercial, technology, data protection, real estate, and compliance-related matters. Leveraging the support of CoE colleagues as required.
Primary responsibility will be supporting JC colleagues to negotiate and draft high-value, complex, sale-side contracts with John Crane customers across the region.
Additional responsibility to support Procurement colleagues across the region who manage John Crane supply chain.
Additional responsibility to support John Crane Digital Team (based in the UK and US) with the drafting of Digital supply and customer contracts (including for SaaS), and all template agreements.
Responsible for supporting SVP and GC, Ethics & Compliance, General Counsel, India, and General Counsel, APAC to manage and oversee all ethics and compliance-related issues in the region.
Prime contact for key John Crane stakeholders, including portfolio managers, GMs, and HRBPs for regions in scope in addition to other senior stakeholders. • Negotiation of key contracts with JC customers, partners, and suppliers and management of legal issues arising from those contracts.
Oversight of agents and distributor contracts with the support of the JC Contracts Manager.
Legal Support for root cause analysis reviews in the event of customer quality issues.
Familiarity with data protection and GDPR compliance-related issues to the extent relevant to drafting and negotiation of digital and technology contracts.
With the support of Group E&C, provide legal support to the Trade Compliance team to manage the operational impact of sanctions on JC.
Businesses partnering with key stakeholders on "blue sky thinking" to develop legal models aligned to the commercialization of new products.
With the support of colleagues in Group E&C, manage ESG-related responses to customer questionnaires.
Compliance and other legal training for JC colleagues in sales and other functions. You should note that your title and job description are not exhaustive, and the Company may require you from time to time to undertake other reasonable tasks within your capacity.

Eligibility

Required Law School Bachelors Degree Qualified Law A qualified lawyer from an accredited law school in APAC.
Private practice experience in a corporate or commercial practice group within a law firm covering both local and international matters.
Corporate / Commercial experience in a senior in‑house role.
Extensive commercial contracting experience – specifically negotiation of high-value, complex, sale-side contracts.
Risk review experience – i.e. escalation of risk issues to senior executive stakeholders Digital / Technology / Software Legal experience – specifically drafting of supplier and/or customer Digital contracts, especially for SaaS. Oil/gas sector experience EU data protection experience Comments English – Fluent (written & spoken) – must be able to draft and negotiate complex contracts in English.