Contract Specialist - IT - LLB/LLM

Qualifications:

- Bachelors or Master's Degree in Law

- At least 5-7 years of relevant contract management experience

- Proficient in working on contract management tools

- Must have experience in managing a team

- Exposure and experienced in handling IT contracts for review, drafting and research Excellent analytical abilities to grasp the key points from complicated details. High Level of expertise in Microsoft (Office, PowerPoint etc).

- Excellent organization, strong written/verbal communications and writing styles with an eye for detail.

Job Responsibilities :

- Drafting and reviewing of customer agreements, Software Licensing agreements, RFP/RFI terms and other legal and operational documents relevant to legal support area with minimal supervision and performing specific research based on internal stakeholders- requirements;

- Drafting and reviewing of vendor contracts agreements, and other legal and operational documents relevant to legal support area with minimal supervision and performing specific research based on internal stakeholders- requirements;

- Provide assistance in negotiating medium to high complexity Contracts, drafting/review Statement of Work, Local Country Agreements, and other vendor contracts with internal customer and vendor legal when needed as well as manage end to end Contract Lifecycle;

- Draft templates for the region supported with approval from onshore stakeholder;

- Research and draft opinions on queries or legal issues;

- Maintain contract and entity level compliance in line with company policies and procedures;

- Support the team with legal advice on matters relating to ensuring policy compliance, research and contractual advisory and corporate governance matters;

- Understand company's approval processes in context of the services and ensures that all stakeholders are timely engaged and informed on the relevant process including understanding the Code of Business Ethics (COBE), Data Privacy, Anti-Corruption Laws and apply the same to ensure compliance;

- Liaise with internal stakeholders on various legal and commercial issues;

- Competent in building credibility and effective relationships within Legal/Legal Services team and with business teams (as applicable);

- Escalate appropriately where needed and coordinate matters with internal stakeholders to find solutions;

- Understand general Corporate business practices and contracting regulations;

- Efficient in conducting legal research on primary and secondary legal sources such as West Law, LexisNexis etc.as well as internet searches for legal research;

- Assist leadership or senior management with legal assessments on regional/global projects, policies and compliance initiatives;

- Identify process improvements in Legal Functions domain and lead team in developing/drafting of guidelines, playbooks, handbooks, know how material, checklists and process/tools associated documents (global/regional and local) for standardizing the process;

- Ability to consistently undertake contract drafting at a proficient level in compliance with company policy/regulatory environment and best practices;

- Effective influencing and negotiation skills and competent at adjusting negotiation style to suit context of negotiations (e.g. timing) and status of counter-party; and

- Negotiate and drive closure of contracts for medium to high complexity deals