Head of Legal, India

As one of the worlds leading independent global investment firms, Invesco is dedicated to rethinking possibilities for our clients. By delivering the combined power of our distinctive investment management capabilities, we provide a wide range of investment strategies and vehicles to our clients around the world. If you're looking for challenging work, intelligent colleagues, and exposure across a global footprint, come explore your potential at Invesco. Job DescriptionYour Team: The Invesco Legal Team in Hyderabad provides comprehensive legal services for our global organization in partnership with attorney teams in other regions and specialized legal services in support of our Hyderabad office. We leverage our extensive legal expertise, technology, and collaborative principles to deliver impactful solutions and insights. Your Role: We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Head of Legal, India Entity to lead our global legal team based in Hyderabad. This role is responsible for (i) all legal matters arising out of Invesco (India) Private Limited (IIPL) and acting as a trusted advisor and partner, and (ii) providing local leadership and representation of a team of legal professionals in Hyderabad, most of whom have a matrixed reporting line to functional managers in the United States.In addition to providing leadership and strategic legal support, the role requires a handson, daytoday advisory role for IIPL, including routine employment law matters, commercial contracts, and corporate secretarial and statutory compliance activities. The role is expected to provide ongoing BAU legal support, with the ability to independently manage routine matters and appropriately escalate complex, novel, or highrisk issues.The Head of Legal, India Entity will work closely with the leaders of the Hyderabad office as they support Invescos strategy and global priorities. Equally, the Head of Legal, India Entity will work to ensure alignment with functional managers on strategic initiatives and operational excellence. While the Head of Legal, India Entity provides leadership and legal expertise, functional managers handle the strategic direction of the team, the allocation of team resources and the day-to-day management of tasks such as training, prioritizing work, and addressing skill gaps. It should be noted that this is not a traditional people-manager role given the teams connection to their functional managers.Key Responsibilities: Leadership & Strategy: Provision of highquality, timely, and commercially focused legal advice to the Hyderabad management team, with significant handson experience in Indian employment law, commercial contracting, and company secretarial matters alongside broader corporate, governance, and disputerelated issues.Partner closely with functional managers to ensure a consistent approach to goal setting, performance reviews, promotions, development discussions, and the annual talent review and compensation process.Drive talent acquisition, development, and retention strategies in collaboration with the local HR team and functional managers.Foster a culture of accountability and partnership to resolve issues, address action items, and ensure adherence to company policies.Develop and maintain strong strategic partnerships and collaborate with leaders across all functions within India.Functional Excellence: Act as the primary point of contact for daytoday legal queries under Indian law, providing practical, timely advice to business, HR, Finance, and Operations teams.Provide handson legal support across the employee lifecycle, including hiring, disciplinary actions, performance management, investigations, terminations, and interpretation and implementation of HR policies and local labor laws.Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on routine and recurring commercial agreements governed by Indian law including vendor, consulting, IT, lease, confidentiality, and services agreements.Perform and oversee company secretarial, governance, and statutory compliance activities for IIPL as a core BAU responsibility, including board and committee processes, statutory filings, maintenance of corporate records, and coordination with external advisors.Ensure that daytoday legal support is delivered in line with Indian regulatory requirements while remaining consistent with Invescos global legal and compliance standards.Ensure productive relationships with regulators (where applicable), IIPL stakeholders and functional managers by demonstrating superior responsiveness, accountability and client service.Coordinate with the Compliance department to ensure proper r .