Assistant Manager - Legal - IT Contracts

Assistant Manager - Global IT Legal Contracts

Global Legal Counsel will be responsible for drafting, negotiating and advising on various contracts, in particular :

IT contracts for multiple divisions and variety of technologies (such as AI, robotics, analytics, M2M), including :

- Software License contracts

- Hosted software/hosted services agreements

- IT Services agreements and SLAs

- Software support agreements.

- Sponsorship contracts

- Meeting and events contracts

- Services contracts

- Consultancy Agreements

Key Responsibilities :

Drafting, reviewing, negotiating, finalizing and advising on global procurement contracts and shall include :

- Providing business and legal advice and guidance to internal clients and end users regarding potential issues stemming from new and existing contracts.

- Working with internal clients to develop strategies to address issues identified.

- Communicating progress, challenges, risks and benefits to appropriate management levels and affected user groups and other members of the in the relevant jurisdictions.

- Understanding practice and user business goals and how they impact the types of products and services procured.

- Coordinating with cross functional teams (tax, data privacy, information security) in respect to contract review as appropriate.

- Ensuring that accurate and sufficient contractual documentation are developed to effectively document procurement transactions and to protect Companies interests.

- Preparing and maintaining internal contract summary reports for review as needed.

- Understanding the Company policies that are relevant to procurement transactions and how contract drafting, negotiation and execution are impacted by those policies (Independence, Procurement, Data Privacy, etc.).

- Ensuring that all contractual documents developed are compliant with Company policies.