Title: Head of Legal Affairs & Administration
Company Name: Multinational Group of Companies
Vacancy: 1
Age: 40 to 55 years
Job Location: Dhaka
Salary: Negotiable
Experience:
Retired commissioned officers of the Bangladesh Army, Navy, or Air Force will be given preference.
Candidates must have 5–7 years of relevant work experience in the garment manufacturing industry.
Proven experience in administration, security management, personnel supervision, and organizational discipline.
Strong leadership, communication, coordination, and decision-making skills.
Sound knowledge of administrative procedures, labour laws, and factory operations.
Ability to manage legal affairs coordination, administrative issues, security, and crisis situations effectively.
1. Lead Legal Affairs and provide strategic legal advice to management.
2. Oversee and supervise all civil, criminal, labour, land, NI Act (Negotiable Instruments Act) and Finance Loan litigation; manage panel lawyers and case strategy.
3. Represent the company strongly before Labour Courts, Labour Appellate Tribunal, Judge Courts and the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh, based on MGT advice.
4. Advice on corporate & commercial law, labour & employment, banking, taxation and public procurement matters.
5. Handle land and property matters, including title verification, deed vetting, mutation and disputes.
6. Handle disputes relating to termination, dismissal, disciplinary action, wages, benefits, service conditions, compensation, and other employment matters.
7. Assist the Human Resources and Compliance Departments in ensuring lawful employment practices and reducing legal risks.
8. Draft, vet, review and negotiate Commercial contracts, agreements, legal notices and other legal documents.
9. Ensure RJSC and corporate secretarial compliance resolutions, returns, share transfers and statutory registers.
10. Manage Industrial Police, Local Police Station, Laboure Union, DIFE, BGMEA, BIDA, SB, NSI, Fire Service, DoE, BSTI, and other regulatory/licensing requirements.
11. Protect Group trademarks, intellectual property and brand interests of the company.
12. Strengthen legal risk management, standard contracts and compliance frameworks.
13. Lead and develop the legal team and provide regular legal risk/litigation reports to management.
14. Submit regular legal status reports to management.
15. Any other legal work assigned by management.