Manager - Legal, HQC

Listing expiry: 24 October 2026

About the role

Role Overview

The Manager – Legal provides legal support to business operations by managing commercial contracts, litigation, regulatory matters, legal notices, and compliance requirements. The role focuses on protecting organizational interests, providing timely legal advice, mitigating legal risks, supporting business functions, and ensuring adherence to applicable laws and regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft, review, negotiate, and finalize customer, vendor, service, commercial, and other business agreements.
• Ensure contractual terms protect the company's legal and commercial interests, identify contractual risks, and recommend mitigation measures.
• Manage litigation, consumer disputes, arbitration matters, recovery cases, and legal notices.
• Coordinate with external counsel and advocates, and monitor case progress, hearing schedules, and legal deadlines.
• Support interactions with government authorities, police, cyber-cell, regulatory bodies, and statutory agencies.
• Draft and review legal responses, notices, representations, and submissions, and support compliance with applicable laws and statutory requirements.
• Provide day-to-day legal guidance to business and functional teams and advise on the legal implications of business decisions and operational matters.
• Assist in identifying and mitigating legal risks and monitoring legal and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Support contractual and compliance obligations relating to the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, data privacy, confidentiality, and information security.
• Keep business teams informed about relevant legal developments.
• Maintain repositories of agreements, contracts, notices, litigation files, and case records, and prepare litigation management information systems (MIS), legal trackers, and management reports.
• Conduct legal research on emerging laws, regulations, and judicial developments.
• Support the preparation of legal opinions, policy updates, compliance advisories, and management presentations.
• Participate in legal awareness and training initiatives.
• Ensure proper implementation of the Environmental Management System (EMS) and appropriate handling of environmental matters.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Finance, HR, Operations, IT, Security, and other business functions, maintaining effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external legal partners.

Qualifications & Experience

• LL.B. from a recognized university.
• Four to five years of relevant legal experience.
• Experience handling contracts, litigation, legal notices, and regulatory matters.
• Additional qualification in Corporate Laws or Compliance is an advantage.
• Experience in logistics, express distribution, e-commerce, the service industry, or large multinational organizations is preferred.
• Exposure to corporate or in-house legal functions is preferred.
• Knowledge of contract drafting and negotiation, litigation and case management, corporate and commercial law, legal risk assessment, regulatory and statutory compliance, commercial contract management, and data privacy and DPDP compliance.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving and judgment, attention to detail, stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills, integrity, professional ethics, collaboration, and execution excellence.
• ISO 14001:2015 training or good awareness of environmental initiatives and ESG.

Additional Details

• The role reports to the Senior Manager – Legal.
• The stated travel requirement is 25%; the source also displays 50% and 75% options without indicating that they are selected.
• Key performance areas include contract review and closure turnaround time, mitigation of high-risk legal issues, litigation progress, regulatory compliance, resolution of business legal queries, legal MIS accuracy and timeliness, recovery and claims management, DPDP compliance, stakeholder satisfaction, and legal process improvement.
• The employer describes competitive compensation, performance-linked rewards, structured learning, global exposure, on-the-job coaching, medical benefits, financial wellness support, time off, and potential career opportunities across the DHL Group.
• Recruitment is described as fair, transparent, and merit-based. The employer states that it does not request or accept fees, deposits, or payments from candidates during recruitment or onboarding, and identifies such requests as fraudulent.