Senior Manager

Job Role Senior Manager - Legal

About GeM

Government eMarketplace is a unified digital platform that facilitates end-to-end procurement of goods and services by various government departments, organizations, and public sector undertakings (PSUs). Our Honourable Prime Ministers concerted efforts to harness the power of digital platforms to achieve Minimum Government, Maximum Governance led to the genesis of GeM in 2016.

GeM provides a paperless, cashless and contactless ecosystem for government buyers to directly purchase products and services from pan-India sellers and service providers through an online platform. GeM covers the entire gamut of procurement process, right from vendor registration and item selection by buyers to receipt of goods and facilitation of timely payments. GeM has envisioned to utilise the agility and speed that come along with a digital platform created with a strategic intent to reinvigorate public procurement systems and bring about a lasting change for the underserved as well as the nation.

Built on the pillars of Efficiency, Transparency and Inclusivity, GeM has emerged as a digital tool in nations interest, aimed at catalyzing excellence in public procurement. To know more about us, please visit-

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What is it like to work at GeM?

• Opportunity to work with a team of highly passionate professionals from Private and Government sector
• Unbounded space for creativity and innovation.
• Agile and collaborative work environment
• Highly transparent and open work culture
• Work- Life balance
• Various kinds of health covers (Insurance) for individual and family.
• A great opportunity to learn and hone your skills.

Compensation: GeM offers competitive salary and other additional benefits .

Type of employment: This is a contractual role under Project Management Unit (PMU) of GeM.

Location: This position is based in Delhi.

A broad overview of the nature of the role can be garnered from the broad outline of the primary responsibilities shared below:

Job Responsibilities

• Litigation Management and advising the company on all aspects related to pre-litigation strategies. Collaborating with other departments for timely inputs to file petition / affidavits/ replies before the Court and identifying issues on receipt of information where order from the court will be required for protection of interest of GeM. Review of affidavits/ legal documents drafted by GeMs Legal Counsel.
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating various commercial contracts. Drafting and reviewing legal documents such as SLAs, MOUs, RFPs, NDAs, Terms & Conditions, etc.
• Drafting and filing of police complaints / F.I.Rs. and follow up with the police authorities regarding the same.
• Tracking latest legal developments / notifications/ regulatory requirements and updating the legal formats, and clauses, from time to time. Providing legal advice to business departments including interpretation/ views on various legal issues.
• Providing sound legal advice and recommendations to aid the Board and senior management of the company in the decision-making process.
• Drafting of legal notices/ show cause notices/ replies to notices received. Collaborating with various departments for timely inputs to prepare replies to the legal notices received and timely issuing of legal notices on receipt of information from business / other teams.
• Database management: Act as the custodian of all legal files / contracts and keep track of all on- going court cases. Co-ordination with various internal departments and the nominated Legal Counsel of GeM.
• Develop sound legal implementation of business practices to prevent legal exposure and minimize liability
• Drafting and review of internal governance policies and regularly monitor compliance of all departments.
• Any other responsibility as assigned from time to time

Professional Qualifications

• Minimum 9 years of work experience with a reputed lawyer/ law firm and/or in house at a company (experience in the e-commerce/IT / technology or related space or government sector will be an added advantage)
• Desirable areas of practice: Civil, Commercial, Arbitration, Contract Management, Intellectual property, and IT/ Privacy laws
• Awareness of the existing and new legal and regulatory requirements

Other desirable Skill Sets

• Strong people management and leadership skills.
• Capability to work in a fast-paced high growth environment.

Educational Qualifications

Essential- Bachelors degree in law (LLB) from a reputed institute/ University Desirable- Master's degree in law (LLM) from a reputed institute/ University

GeM selection committee reserves the right to relax or extend the eligibility criteria and educational qualifications.

In case the numbers of applications received are very high, GeM reserves the right to shortlist candidates and invite only shortlisted candidates for interview round.

The crucial date for determining eligibility will be the last date of receipt of applications. No applications shall be entertained under any circumstances after the stipulated date. Incomplete applications shall be rejected.

GeM reserves the right to shortlist candidates for interview. Applicants should note that mere fulfillment of minimum eligibility criteria may not ensure consideration for short listing for interview. GeM will not entertain any correspondence on this subject and decisions of GeM will be final in all matters.