Senior Manager/AVP - Legal/IT Contract Management - LLB - BPO

Job Dimensions are as below:

Contract Management: Primary reviewer/negotiator for commercial agreements including client Master Services Agreements, SOWs/Work Orders, Vendor Contracts, Software License Agreements, Service level agreements, NDAs and RFPs. Ensure legal risks are addressed while balancing business needs and objectives. Ensure contracts are negotiated within ORGANIZATION contracting standards, while facilitating deal-to-deal specific exceptions and customizations and pro-actively working with Business team members to creatively solve issues.

Desired Skill set

- Must have excellent contract drafting and negotiation skills; extensive experience with US commercial contracts as well as US companies

- 8-10 years of experience; a combination of time with a major law firm as well as in-house experience with a reputable corporation preferred.

- 5+ Years of experience of managing the IT legal contracts.

- Graduate/Post Graduate in Law (L.L.B.) with a good academic background.Handling client issues/queries

The primary responsibilities of this role include -

- Ability to take ownership of projects and - run with them- to completion.

- Data Privacy requirements: Legal advice on Data Privacy and Information Security requirements as applicable globally. Lead / assist in data privacy projects as a legal expert.

- Employer-Employee relationships: Handle HR issues, researching and advising on applicable laws, handling queries and satisfactory resolution of employee matters.

- Compliance function: Interpretation and advice on compliance requirements, applicability of provisions, risk impact under various laws, rules and regulations applicable to ORGANIZATION in general. Interpretation and advice on management driven policies and procedures and contractual obligations.

- Specific Projects: Assist with Special Projects as the need arises to support the businesses strategic growth while keeping within the acceptable risk profile.

- Talent Management: Conducting training and awareness sessions on upcoming legal and compliance areas. Ensure team engagement; provide team development, orientation and mentoring. Continue to build and improve processes to minimize team conflicts.