Assistant/Deputy Manager - Contract Management - LLB/LLM - Business Consulting/BPM Firm

Our client is a leading Business Consulting/BPM firm which is looking for a Assistant/Deputy Manager for its Legal Contract Management division.

- Looking for LLB/LLM professionals with 5+ years of experience in contract lifecycle management - drafting, redlining, reviewing etc.

- Experience in handling a team 10-15 members a must

The incumbent shall be responsible for the below:

- Driving the entire contracting process from creation till completion of agreements as per requirements.

- Understanding the commercial & legal implications of contracts & the subsequent red line changes for taking agreements to closure.

- Analyzing contract requirements, terms and conditions & other content to ensure compliance with appropriate laws.

- Renegotiating the commitments in contracts to ensure adherence to legal & regulatory compliances.

- Ensuring contract review, approval and execution is in accordance with corporate guidelines.

- Managing all contracts with various consultants / individuals. This includes reviewing & checking the scope, cost & other deliverables.

- Finalization of contracts by discussions with internal & external stakeholders.

- Ensuring accurate & timely delivery.

- Managing a team of leaders and analysts to ensure adherence to timelines & other legal laws.

- Overseeing project SLA's

- Implement process improvements

- Overseeing the team training and onboarding mechanism

- Reviewing the feedback mechanism in the team and ensuring performance feedback is regularly shared and documented by leaders

- Overseeing buffer management, leave management

- Support project transitions

Client Excellence

- Takes ownership of client problems and resolves them effectively.

- Proactively works with clients to understand their needs.

- Develops rapport with clients.

- Ensures procedures are followed appropriately so that high quality work is produced.

- Undertakes detailed review of work.

- Urges others to do things better and to make changes to work that improve quality.

- Identifies opportunities that can add value to the client within appropriate guidelines.

- Monitoring open issues with clients and pushing for its closure

- Understanding and learning all reporting deliverables to client

- Understands QMS

Growing the business

- Builds relationships with client staff at a junior level.

- Takes an interest in the client's business.

- Asks open and probing questions to help identify client needs.

- Has a high level awareness of the range of services offered by the firm.

Planning and organizing

- Plans projects in advance to ensure all necessary information is available.

- Ensures clear, specific and measurable task/project objectives are set for others to achieve.

- Schedules work, allocates responsibilities, tasks and resources appropriately.

- Plans when to monitor/review the work of leaders or team members.

- Checks with team leaders to make sure that tasks and projects are completed or are progressing according to plan.

Financial management

- Records time spent on a job & and on different tasks.

- Monitors actual time against budget.

- Informs the manager when actual time exceeds budget and explains why.

- Informs the manager when the client is not delivering.