Associate - Legal Operations

Educational Qualifications: BA/BSC

- 15+ years of experience with legal project operations and management in-house or at a law firm (both preferred)

Key Responsibilities :

- Reporting to the Global Head of Legal & Compliance, you will lead efforts to both set the direction and standards for Legal &Compliance projects. You will also play a significant role in developing the long-term strategy and roadmaps.

- The candidate would be a strategic partner to the President & General Counsel. The person should have the ability to help design a strategic roadmap that addresses

- Define metrics for tracking and creating early warning indicators for proactive action

- Elevate overall Project Management capability including risk management

- Build, track, and maintain legal files, legal documents, notices and other correspondences within team, cross functional teams, external agencies and government department

- Cross-check and validate information with various stakeholders in business and revert within set time frame process changes, technology adoption, and internal/external collaboration.

- Review basic documents for accuracy and have basis sense of understanding legal documents and terminology

- Provides legal support services within the mandate of the Legal Affairs department, for all business functions and activities including commercial contracts and regulatory

- Develop and monitor the legal team's contract lifecycle management process. Exposure to contract field, contracts administration, or legal operation

- Take charge of all change management planning and communication

- Developing & setting up SOP and required checklist for legal function.

- The candidate will be key in creating processes and practices to improve the day-to-day efficiency and effectiveness of the legal team, facilitate change, and control costs.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams as well as various business units

- Preparation and maintenance of Legal MIS

- Support in the preparation of presentations

- Onboarding support of New joinee in legal department

- Invoice and budget management

- Assisting GC in his work, including administrative work

- Any other Legal/Compliance work as may be given

Key Skills and Experience:

- Proficient in business applications such as Microsoft Word and Excel, document management systems, and legal enterprise software

- Ability to work with multiple data sets in order to make informed recommendations; experience with business intelligence tools is preferred

- Experience with legal analytics and legal terminology

- Able to thrive in a fast-paced environment and successfully manage multiple deadlines

- Demonstrated ability to independently move projects forward by gaining the support needed from others

Key Personal Attributes :

- Good communication skills, reasoning and analytical ability

- Must be collaborative in approach and a team player

- Very good at networking and influencing