Manager - IT Contracting/Contracts - LLB

Location Any Metro Location ( Except Hyderabad)

Experience: 12-15 yrs

Salary: 30-45 Lacs ( Fixed)

Keywords IT Contracting, IT agreements, IT services agreements

Job Summary :

- Lead, structure, draft and negotiate complex client transactions in a fast-paced corporate environment including: master services agreements, outsourcing agreements, statements of work, service level agreements, licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, data transfer agreements, requests for proposals and agreements involving cloud, blockchain security, automation, systems integration and agile development.

- Advise senior company leadership on legal risks associated with transactions and understanding of the larger market.

- Act, and continuously evolve as, a knowledgeable and relevant advisor on legal and commercial risks associated with transactions while supporting Legal, Business and Sales Leadership in shaping and executing market-facing strategies.

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead, structure, negotiate and close complex client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective

- Counsel, guide, train and support junior CLPs

- Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company's transactional practices

- Educate and advise company executives with respect to legal and risk management issues

- Develop subject matter experience in one of more areas that benefit Legal and/or our business

- Participate in developing internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge capital on various legal and business issues

- Support, promote and implement Legal Group initiatives

- Good understanding of contracting/risk issues, including IP, as they apply to digital, consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing transactions

Qualifications :

- Law Degree

- Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction

- Minimum 6 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in roles with increasing responsibility, such experience should be in a law firm or in a fast-paced corporate legal/transaction group in a relevant industry

- Minimum of 3 years of experience negotiating Intellectual Property and Data Privacy issues preferred

- Excellent oral and written communication skills