AM/Manager - Contract Drafting

Client is the global leader in legal outsourcing services. Its awards and industry recognition include:

- Recognized as LPO of the Year for 2009, 2010 and 2011 by the India Business Law Journal

- Recognized as Best Legal Process Outsourcing Provider 2011 by the New York Law Journal

- #1 LPO in the Black Book of Outsourcing

- Recipient of Excellence in Outsourcing award from Frost & Sullivan; and

- Recognized as the best managed company by Inc. Magazine

We are a high-growth, fast-paced, exciting group of lawyers, engineers, and business professionals working together to achieve excellence as a globally recognized legal services provider in the newest frontier of professional services outsourcing from India.

It provides contract drafting and management, corporate governance and due diligence, corporate secretarial and compliance risk management services, document review, legal research, business and competitive intelligence services, litigation support services, intellectual property and patent litigation services to leading American and European multinational companies.

JOB DESCRIPTION :

The primary responsibilities include :

- Leads one large complex or two small-to-medium complexity projects effectively, without intensive oversight:

- Quality control the drafts reviewed by associates and sr. associates

- Negotiates with client's counterparty (lawyers/business) to help attain the contract with no or minimal deviations from client's positions

- Displays ability to lead projects in the absence of seniors

- Primary responsibility for applying standard audits; does not simply rely on pre-existing audit lists; suggests additional audits (e.g. based on client escalation responses or other feedback)

- Point person for the project team to spot/address/escalate all issues

- Expected to innovate and improve upon current processes and techniques

- Prepares reporting matrices as desired by the client

- Strong subject matter expertise

- Administrative responsibilities, primarily centred on the employee appraisal process.

COMPETENCIES :

- Strong subject matter expertise

- Strong written and oral communication skills

- Strong client- and external party-facing skills: main point of contact with external representatives in connection with particular projects. Able to effectively gauge client needs even if not expressly stated

- Highly responsive to the needs of both internal (including reporting managers, other project managers and team members) as well as external clients

- Strong presentation and training skills; project-specific training is a core responsibility

- Strong project management skills, including firm grasp of Pangea3 processes, metrics, and productivity-implications of project workflow

- General knowledge of processes and platforms that the clients use

- Demonstrates an ability to perform Managers' role in Manager's absence

QUALIFICATION : LL.B / LL.M