Legal Counsel

5 hours ago

Gurgaon, Haryana, India Kantar Full time ₹ 12,00,000 - ₹ 36,00,000 per year
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Why this job is important

As Legal Counsel for our fast-growing India business, you'll play a pivotal role in supporting our commercial success across India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. You'll help us bring Kantar's value to life for our clients and suppliers, ensuring we operate with integrity, compliance, and commercial acumen. You'll be part of a collaborative, friendly team that values continuous learning and innovation.

What you'll be doing

  • Act as a proactive legal partner to our business, advising on a wide range of commercial and contracting issues in a fast-paced environment.
  • Draft and negotiate commercial agreements with international and regional clients and suppliers.
  • Analyse legal and commercial risks, solve day-to-day legal issues, and build trusted advisor relationships across Kantar.
  • Contribute to evolving our ways of working, including sharing know-how and developing legal templates and playbooks.
  • Drive organisational alignment on privacy, IP, AI, and governance in commercial contracts and daily operations.

The skills & experience needed as Legal Counsel

  • LLB and/or degree, with 5+ years' experience in a law firm or in-house, specialising in commercial transactions.
  • Strong drafting and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Knowledge of data privacy is a plus, but a willingness to learn is essential.
  • Commercial awareness and the ability to provide practical legal guidance.
  • Ability to work independently and collaboratively, managing multiple projects at once.
  • A passion for personal development and continuous improvement.

What's in it for you

At Kantar, we understand the importance of looking after our people. We offer a flexible working environment to support your health and wellbeing. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers, and communities. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you're not an exact match, we'd love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

Location

Gurgaon, DLF Cyber ParkIndia

Kantar Rewards Statement

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver. 

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that's out of the ordinary and join us. 

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration. 

We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes. 

Kantar is the world's leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar's 30,000 people help the world's leading organisations succeed and grow.

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