Job Description

DESCRIPTION


Key Responsibilities


• Independently handle legal and regulatory issues in multiple businesses that are customer-focused, including the complexity of plant and area/zonal offices spread across India.
• Address a mixture of routine and complex legal questions and projects.
• Assist more experienced attorneys in complex legal questions and projects with broad-reaching implications for the organization when necessary.
• Review standard documents and contracts, and prepare filings.
• Build professional experience and learn the practical aspects of applied law and business functions.
• Demonstrate proficiency in a specific area of law, specialty, function, or geographic region.
• Provide support and contribute to the overall objectives and goals of the organization.
• Supervise and mentor one or more paralegals or administrative assistants.
• Lead projects for the legal function.
• Exposure to restructuring and M&A transactions is an added advantage.
• Ability to lead teams in a matrix environment is essential.

Skills and Experience


• Significant relevant experience required.
• Experience in independently handling legal and regulatory issues in multiple businesses that are customer-focused, including the complexity of plant and area/zonal offices spread across India.
• Knowledge of restructuring and M&A transactions is an added advantage.
• Proven ability to lead teams in a matrix environment.
• Proficiency in MS Office tools is preferred.

RESPONSIBILITIES


Qualifications


• Degree in law.
• License to practice law in home jurisdiction.
• This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Competencies


• Action Oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Balances Stakeholders: Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Communicates Effectively: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
• Decision Quality: Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Manages Complexity: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Manages Conflict: Handling conflict situations effectively, with minimal disruption.
• Persuades: Using compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others.
• Situational Adaptability: Adapting approach and demeanor in real-time to match the shifting demands of different situations.
• Strategic Mindset: Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.
• Assertiveness: Delivering information confidently in a direct way to reflect what is needed or believed.
• Legal Acumen: Demonstrating knowledge in substantive legal specialties and general knowledge of legal issues affecting the manufacturing industry.
• Project Issue and Risk Management: Managing the process to identify, assess, and prioritize issues and risks using recommended tools and disciplines. Driving actions to minimize, monitor, and control risks and issues to maximize the most positive outcomes possible.
• Values Differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

QUALIFICATIONS


Experience


• Prior experience as a Senior or Lead Engineer equivalent in a relevant discipline area with a demonstrated track record of technical problem-solving and quality decision-making.
• Significant experience in managing legal and regulatory issues across multiple businesses.
• Familiarity with restructuring and M&A transactions is advantageous.

Job Law


Organization Cummins Inc.


Role Category Hybrid


Job Type Exempt - Experienced


ReqID 2400138


Relocation Package Yes