Global Contracts Head - LLB/LLM - IT

Contracts Head - Band D2: Global Role

Location: Bangalore, India

The following describes the nature of the role:

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

- Draft, review, and lead 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 keep a team of lawyers motivated and 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

The ideal candidate must:

- Be an L.L.B./L.L.M from a top law school with 15+ 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