Job Description

Porter.in - Assistant Manager - Legal & Secretarial

Company Overview :

At Porter, we are passionate about improving productivity. We want to help businesses, large and small, optimize their last-mile operations and empower them to unleash the growth of their core functions. Last mile delivery logistics is one of the biggest and fastest growing sectors of the economy with a market cap upwards of 50 billion USD and a growth rate exceeding 15% CAGR.

Porter is the fastest growing leader in this sector with Pan India presence with operations in multiple cities, a fleet size exceeding 1L registered and 30k active driver partners and a customer base with 3.5M being monthly active. Our industry-best technology platform has raised over 150 million USD from investors including Sequoia Capital, Kae Capital, Mahindra group, LGT Aspada, Tiger Global and Vitruvian Partners.

We are addressing a massive problem and going after a huge market. We're trying to create a household name in transportation and our ambition is to disrupt all facets of last mile logistics including warehousing and LTL transportation. At Porter, we're here to do the best work of our lives.

If you want to do the same and love the challenges and opportunities of a fast paced work environment, then we believe Porter is the right place for you.

Roles and Responsibilities :

- To manage litigation prevention and resolution function. Responsible for litigation management for the organization.

- Drafting legal notices and reply, complaints, suits, written statements, etc. and other correspondences, supporting business and finance teams on the documentation process required for various authorities including police officials/enforcement agencies.

- Have expert knowledge and on ground exposure on litigation proceedings and process including appearances before Court/ Tribunal proceedings and Investigation authorities.

- Strong exposure to litigation and court procedures.

- Empanelment of the right set of law firms with PAN India presence for litigation, notice and complaint handling.

- Insights on supporting strategies related to litigation cases (Civil, Criminal, Intellectual Property, Consumer Forum, Negotiable Instrument, Private Complaints, Data Privacy matters).

- Conducting research on relevant laws, regulations & legal articles.

- Assistance in drafting of commercial contracts such as NDAs, supplier agreements, customer agreements, dealing with teams on vendor and registration processes.

- Must have knowledge on IPR, Property, Corporate and contemporary laws.

Skills Required :

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Law degree, (B.A.LL.B/LL.M.) having below mentioned experience and skills.

- 3 to 5 years of experience in Contract Management, Litigation and Legal and Business Correspondences.

- Good understanding of laws, various types of contracts & key clauses.

- Basic knowledge of litigation management services and Contract Life Cycle management.

- Experience in research on relevant laws, regulations & legal articles.

- Exposure to tools for legal research, contract management, etc.

- Ability to work as an individual contributor.

- Experience using Microsoft Office.

- Excellent communication and drafting skills required.

- Having Legal knowledge, Analytical Skills, Decision making, Team Player.