Senior Associate - Contract Management - LLB - Law Firm

Job location : Bangalore

Qualification : LLB

Designation: Senior Associate / Contract Manager

Main Skill: Contract Management, Pre execution of contract, drafting

Scope:

- Work with full ownership of contracts for business

- Responsible for independently managing and negotiating contracts in direct alignment with business, works with zero supervision to deliver end-to-end contracts management services.

- Responsible for mentoring junior lawyers and managing a small team, if assigned

Job Description:

- Draft contracts for business in different jurisdictions across the globe based on the commercial requirements and company policy.

- Provide external customer ready contract review documents in line with the business function's preferences and requirements.

- Advise customers on legal contractual terms and bring it in sync with business requirements.

- Lead negotiations on legal/ commercial terms with external customers when required by business or L&C for both sales and sourcing side.

- Capable of working on a global front on assignments across poles EMEA, APAC and Americas.

- Take on and own full range of customer/ vendor facing contracts responsibilities.

- Manage the assigned customers, coordinate with business and L&C stakeholders and be responsible for the quality and timelines of the deliverable for self and team.

- Can provide independent legal assistance to support General Counsel's needs in connection with a broad range of sales and procurement transactions including legal counsel support in activities such as litigation support, M&A activity, legal research, etc.

- Coordinate delivery operations of the team with a target to optimize quality, productivity and turnaround time.

- Able to effectively train and mentor juniors to meet the team's requirements.

- Leverages collaborative networks and experiences to increase functional knowledge and expertise.

- Drives process improvement and productivity initiatives in collaboration with people leaders. Makes significant contribution to Knowledge Management practices.

- Develop training plan and monitor competency growth of new hires.

- Promote an environment of high performance.

Skills & Experience:

- Bachelor degree in Law with post qualification 5 - 8 years of experience in commercial contract drafting, review contract and negotiations, sourcing and procurement out which 3-4 years should be in a multinational company with hands on experience of working on contracts globally, preferably on engineering and technical side contracts.

- Understanding of the business requirements in contracts for sales, support, services, maintenance and procurement of engineering and technical products and services.

- Superior communications skills (both oral and written); ability to anticipate informational needs of diverse audiences and tailor communications appropriately. Excellent interpersonal, organization, and analytical skills.

- Demonstrated ability to influence and deal tactfully and confidentially with internal and external customers at all organizational levels in a dynamic environment.

- Integrity and strong focus on compliance with internal standards and policies: ability to proactively provide guidance to contract management personnel or internal customers as needed.

- Ability to mentor, coach, develop and motivate at both an individual and team level.

- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office.

- Excellent knowledge of foreign legal systems especially on contract related matters.

- Fully familiar with the usage of tools and resources for legal research like LexisNexis, Manupatra, Westlaw, etc.