Wipro - AM/Manager - Legal Counsel

The following describes the nature of the role:

- Provide legal counsel and support to business operations on a global basis.

- Drafting, Review, and leading negotiations of a variety of high value IT global outsourcing contracts with customers around the world. Identify the risks in any contract and liaise with internal business teams

- Contract Risk Management including monitoring compliance of the contracts

- Identify non-compliance issues, provide implications, suggest available courses of action and support their resolution.

- Strong business and organizational skills are required and the ability to multi-task with operational and finance teams on various aspects of contracting including strategizing and management of litigious issues.

- Provide general legal awareness training to various business teams

- Drafting, reviewing contracts/ agreements with global vendors and service providers for identifying and reducing legal risks.

- Interacting with business teams and negotiating with customers to conclude vendor contracts/ agreements.

The ideal candidate must:

- be an L.L.B./L.L.M from an top law school with 5+ years of post-qualification experience

- preferably have an understanding of the IT industry, knowledge of service agreements, software license agreements, hardware procurement agreements, IT outsourcing agreements and related transactional documents

- be confident, dynamic and have a pro-active disposition

- have effective drafting and communication skills, including excellent written and spoken English

- have the ability to effectively work with internal clients/external customers

- have excellent analytical, and interpersonal skills with professionalism to motivate and supervise others

- have strong business acumen, ethics and high integrity