Senior Manager, Legal Counsel - INSWA

Location(s):

India

City/Cities:

Gurugram

Travel Required:

00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:

No

Job Posting End Date:

March 27, 2026

Shift:

Job Description Summary:

Location: Gurugram, India

Role Type: Individual Contributor

Please note: This role is not a fully remote position. The selected candidate will need to be based in Gurugram, India and follow our hybrid work setup—3 days onsite and 2 days working from home each week. This is an Individual Contributor position.

The Senior Manager-Legal Counsel, INSWA will provide support and advice to Operating Unit (OU) Franchisee & Commercial Teams who support the Bottlers across INSWA OU, handling and advising on Litigation.

What You’ll Do for Us:

• Strategic Counsel and support to OU Franchisee teams who support the Bottlers.

• Support tactical execution of projects, routine business tasks by OU teams to achieve agreed objectives of the organization.

• Be proactive, manage and mitigate legal risk by crafting strategy and tactical execution plans to support associates on field.

• Own Legal governance for Revenue Growth Management (RGM) and Route to Market (RTM), including compliant OU Bottler documentation, RTM capability building contracts, and embedding legal guardrails into commercial execution tools.

• Lead system wide governance of in store execution, partnering with bottlers to ensure consistent on ground adoption, documentation and risk mitigation, and act as the legal escalation point for commercial–bottler execution issues.

• Provide proactive, creative strategic and tactical legal counseling and support, advice and assist in problem resolution on a timely basis; work as part of cross-functional teams on projects and initiatives to achieve business result in the right way

• Provide advice on contract & commercial, corporate, employment, environment, sustainability, consumer protection and competition, and ability to learn more industry/country related laws, such as food law, e-commerce, legal metrology and the applicable laws and regulations and minimize risk and ensure compliance with Company policies, laws, and regulations.

• Provide litigation assessment counseling and risk mitigation advice.

• Overseeing all stages of a legal dispute, from initial investigation to final judgment or settlement.

• Conducting thorough research on relevant laws, statutes, and precedents to support case strategy. Preparing and reviewing a wide range of legal documents, including legal notices, complaints, petitions, briefs, and pleadings.

• Manage and assist external counsels for the Company and Bottlers as per legal strategy and alignment. 

• Enable Governance, Strengthen Compliance with Company Policies: Provide guidance and direction including training regarding the Company’s operations in an ethical manner, compliance programs and policies, including the Code of Business Conduct, competition law policies, privacy and data protection, regulatory compliance, Anti-Bribery Compliance, Supplier Guiding Principles, FCPA, Trade Sanctions, and collaborate with the rest of the OU counsels to advise the Franchisee bottlers.

• Represent and/or guide the representation of Company interests in dealing with local governmental authorities

• Handle real estate related matters including leases, construction related services contracts, stamp duty and compliances such as BOCW, PCB requirement etc.

• Carry out any other instruction given by Operating Unit General Counsel to advance the interests of the Business initiatives 

What We’re Looking For

• Qualified lawyer

• Work experience: At least 7-9 years of prior relevant experience

• Experience in the FMCG industry or supporting customer and commercial operations would be a plus.

• Business Partnership and Legal Efficiency:  Provide legal support and business solutions to ensure realization of business priorities.

• Ability to be highly organized and effective, handle multiple complex projects and carefully prioritize competing work assignments from many clients

• Strong communication skills, including written and presentation; ability to influence varied clients, up to and including senior executives; ability to communicate complex legal topics to all business clients

What We Can Do for You

• Commitment to Diversity: We are paving the way to create change in the industry, and our leadership is committed to diversity, inclusion and belonging.

• Global Network: Expand your global network by developing, learning, and growing with our top talent and connections around the world.

• Agile Work Environment: We embrace agile, with leadership that believes in removing barriers, so you are empowered to innovate and discover new solutions to complex problems.

What can help you to be successful in the role?

Growth Behavior:

• Growth Mindset: Demonstrates Curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.

• Smart Risk: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.

• Commercially Focused: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work.

• Performance Driven & Accountable: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers.

• Fast/Agile: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace.

• Empowered: Brings solutions instead of problems. Challenges the status quo. Has the courage to take an unpopular stance.

Leadership Behavior

• Act Like an Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our brands, our System, our customers and key stakeholders.

• Collaborate with the System, Customers and Key Stakeholders

• Develops Self and Others: Develop self and support others' development to achieve their full potential.

• Drive Innovation: Generate new or unique solutions and embrace new ideas that help sustain our business.

• Strong experience in managing senior stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to lead and positively impact teams.

What We Can Do For You 

• Career growth and development: Leveraging our boundaryless network, we provide access to educational platforms and provide coaching, mentoring and feedback, as a part of our Leadership & Development process.

• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. We want to make our culture inevitable.

• International Experience: Become part of international projects and work along multicultural teams, through our global network.  

Skills:

Our Purpose and Growth Culture:

We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.