Job Title - Manager or Senior Manager or AGM - Legal

Job Location - Chennai

Position Summary: The Legal Counsel/Legal Contracts Lead is predominantly engaged in oversight of the Legal Department's contracting processes, policies, and systems. The position works with the legal team, risk team, and all business teams to manage contracts from pre-award to post-award

Objective of this Role includes :

1. Provide legal services and advice in wide range of legal activities with focus on contract management

2. Improve the service level through turn around time and keep interest of the organization and strive of zero risk

3. Should be independent, reliable, and resourceful with a strong sense of commitment to increase time and quality efficiencies within the legal function

Position Responsibility :

1. Monitors contract performance and compliance and recommends improvements and innovations to oversight of contract process to ensure contract accuracy

1. Reviews, drafts, revises, and negotiates all types of contracts and drive through in-house capabilities - Independently manage internal contract review and negotiation

2. Draft all kinds of commercial contracts for the different functions - marketing, finance, procurement, channel partners etc and manages contract workflow in conjunction with Company's contract policy

3. Play an active role in Tender Review and risk consultation for cross functional team. This role also expands to guiding and advising the team through the life of the tender including post award life cycle which includes contracts, guarantees and etc

4. Partner with corporate company secretary team on corporate compliance and to secure compliance of business operations with relevant laws and regulations. This role also includes creating awareness campaigns /training programs to employees in areas not limited to contract drafting, negotiation, execution and etc

5. Advising on general business law issues and managing the legal issues of all areas of the company, including but not limited to corporate matters, procurement, safety, security, insurance, and sustainability issues

6. Be a business lawyer and assist in investment transactions

7. Works with internal and external customers, carefully obtains the requirements needed for each contract and prepares statistical analysis for contract review.

8. Applies formal, best practice methodologies to develop and implement contract strategies to support the contracting process and be open on other duties that may be assigned

Academic qualification: Law Degree (Bachelors or Masters)

Experience: 3 to 7 years

Desired Technical Skills:

1. Corporate Law experience for at least 1 years - M&A/PE/Commercial Contracting/Banking and Finance

2. Contract drafting, execution

3. Contract Management

4. Drafting of notices/responses to legal notices

5. Litigation Management

6. IP Management

Desired Soft Skills:

1. Ability to work cross-functionally

2. Always meet deadlines

3. Ability to set expectations across functions

4. Be pro-active and take the initiative on providing support to other functions

5. Be available, have a deep sense of responsibility and ownership

Language Proficiency: English and Hindi (desirable)