Cacti Legal - Legal Manager - Contracts Management

Legal Manager - Contracts Management

- We are a leading alternate legal service provider and legal talent management solutions company in our industry. We are seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented individual to join our growing legal team.

-The Legal Manager will work closely with the general counsel and business stakeholders at all levels of the company.

- As our legal operations manager, you will be key in creating processes and practices to improve the day-to-day efficiency and effectiveness of the legal team, facilitate change, and control costs

Role :

- A legal operations manager manages and supports a full range of projects for the legal team. He would perform complex contract management projects and manage a bigger team.

- These projects include taking care of outside counsel and vendors, overseeing the legal department's budget, and fulfilling the legal department's staffing needs.

- This role involves managing and supporting projects across the full range of subject matter supported by the legal team.

- You must be able to adapt to changing priorities and business needs, and must be proactive in identifying areas of need and generating action plans

Responsibilities & Duties:

- To be a central person for contact with outside attorneys and clients

- To be a central person for managing the delivery of the abstraction of contracts (customer agreements, NDA, leases, vendor contracts, services agreement etc.) prior to sending to client

- Coordinating with team members and Team Leads

- Conduct training sessions for the team members

- Ensures team achieves the daily targets and clients' quality expectations

- Runs random quality check on the deliverables

- Discuss queries with the client and further shares/disseminates the feedback received from the client with the team members

- Analyse errors of the team and provide necessary trainings

- Resolves internal team conflicts

- Identifying and flagging issues to internal & External stakeholders related to the project

- Arrange and attend regular calls with the clients

- Assist in honing best practices.

- Assist Training Department in development of talent.

- Continuously strive for and develop standardization and quality control processes in performing legal work

- Other functions as assigned by Director Legal ; India

- Ensure optimization of utilization/cross utilization of team members

- Work with client engagement teams and client counterparts to assist with day to day contract management support and to understand delivery requirements;

- Ensure no revenue leakage

- Be a role model for contract management staff and demonstrate leadership qualities by participating in wider contract management activities

- Implement contract management processes on a specific project or account

Required Skills & Abilities :

- Ability to read and understand highly complex contractual language to identify and flag client risks and suggest mitigation in lieu of client's playbook

- High level of positive attitude ('Can do' attitude) and follow problem solving approach

- Target Driven along with an eye for details

- Excellent team management, project management and time management skills is a must.

- Flexible to work in rotating shifts

- Excellent oral and written communication skills

- Ability to comprehend questions and respond appropriately (writing and verbal)

- Knowledge of MS Office - Word

- Logical thinking and good decision-making abilities

- Work independently, self-learning attitude, disciplined, sincere and need less supervision

- Responsible for compliance with ISO standards and other confidentiality

Requirements :

Qualifications :

- Possess a bachelor's or master's degree in law

- 8 to 10 years or more experience in managing teams dealing with Contract Abstraction, review or negotiation

- Broad based experience in contract.

- Experience of handling team of 50 + members

- Experience on CLM Tools

Benefits :

What's there for you :

- We'll equip you for the future, both yours and ours, whatever it may bring. We believe that enjoyment and satisfaction at work go hand in hand.

- We are proud to offer a competitive and innovative employment package that's committed to the health, success and well-being of all of our people.

We also have several initiatives to help our people strike the necessary work / life balance such as :

(a) Working from home and

(b) Part-time working / reduced or fixed working hours.

- Learning is a continuous process of life. We offer extensive opportunities for personal and professional development. Whether it's enhancing your professional skills or honing your personal interests of cooking classes to guitar strings that you've been meaning to take, we'll support you in doing what you love.