Assistant Legal Counsel - Pharmaceutical Business

Hiring LGBT+ Talent (LGBT+ means Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Pansexual, Bi-curious)

Job Title: Assistant Legal Counsel - LGBT ( Out or Closeted)

Experience: 10 to 12+ years

Location: Bangalore

Industry: Big Pharmaceutical Company

Job Description:

- This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career.

- As a member of the LCN Delivery Team, you will be accountable for providing quality legal support on a global basis for various stakeholders.

Responsibilities include:

- Lead negotiations and draft engagement letters with law firms and legal vendors relating to value- based fee arrangements and other Alternative Fee Arrangements ("AFAs").

- Partner with in-house counsel to define legal matter fee assumptions and scope of work, working to drive consistency and predictability across matters.

- Prepare presentations and reports related to external legal spend and GELRT efforts to reduce same for senior legal and finance management.

- Act as a primary point of contact for legal practice group heads and in-house counsel to facilitate the engagement of outside counsel.

- Drive compliance with GELRT policies, including increasing savings, the portion of external legal spend under AFAs, and strengthening relationship with PLP firms.

- Provide ongoing management of external legal spend and proactively monitor spend in an effort to identify AFA opportunities.

- In conjunction with in-house counsel, track and review progress of tasks and assumptions over the course of a matter (periodically and at conclusion of matter) to assess appropriateness of fees/fee agreement.

- Help administer and develop premier legal partner (PLP) program, including meeting with outside counsel relationship partners to discuss their performance, participation in cost savings initiatives, and diversity initiatives.

- Ensure adherence to engagement and billing terms.

- Calculate, report, and present external legal spend savings achieved from various cost savings initiatives.

- Act as a point of contact for in-house counsel and outside counsel and third-party legal service providers for significant questions or issues (e.g. rate disputes, rate increase requests, etc.) in order to:

1) achieve consistency of approach,

2) ensure savings and promote "partnership" with outside services providers, and 3) ensure that in- house counsel can focus on the substance of the matters they manage.

- Enhance inclusion and diversity initiatives as it relates to engagement of outside counsel, including opportunities to increase spend with under-represented minority law firms or lawyers.

- Being aware of departmental guidance on best practices, processes, templates, clauses and playbooks.

- Communicates directly with business clients and participate in general business meetings, teams and projects as required to provide timely, effective legal advice.

- Other duties as assigned.

If you have these skills, we would like to speak to you.

- Qualified lawyer with minimum 10 to 12 years' experience in a law firm and/or in-house, including experience in negotiating and onboarding multiple law firms across jurisdictions.

- Adept with using various tools for onboarding and tracking external law firms.

- Knowledge of the rules of professional conduct governing client-lawyer relationship including conflicts, counsel engagement, and fee structures. Basic knowledge of law firm management structure.

- Experience with Excel and PowerPoint.

- Experience in finance/business reporting preferred.

- Willingness to work flexible hours as this position supports global business in different geographies.

Why?

Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture. These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

- Operating at pace and being agile to systems and processes.

- Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focus on what matters, execution.

- Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.

- Demonstrating leadership qualities and good soft skills needed to work in a fast paced environment.

- Building strong relationships and collaboration with the team members and senior stakeholders.