Legal - Manager

The contracts lawyer will be responsible to review, draft and negotiate variety of complex commercial contracts for the assigned areas. In this role, you will leverage the established forms, templates, and processes to independently review and draft standard and non-standard contracts, negotiate third party contracts.

You will partner with business team members, subject matter experts and other lawyers and paralegals who provide counsel related to a variety of contracts for the company.

Key Accountabilities:

- Collaborate with members of the legal team, management and business team to structure and execute variety of complex commercial transactions following the established procedures.

- Responsible for end to end contract management - Independently Reviewing, vetting, drafting, abstraction, negotiations, execution of contracts including a wide variety of commercial contracts such as agreements relating to confidentiality, manufacturing, supply, warehousing, intellectual property, procurement, distribution, external manufacturing, sales, lease, license, employment and other legal agreements pertaining to the pharmaceutical industry.

- Provide support on special projects as required.

- Independently solve complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating issues to legal head.

- Drafting vetting legal documents viz. Agreements, Leave and License agreements ,Contracts, Deeds, MoU, pleadings, affidavits, undertakings, etc. to ensure that the associated risks are minimized.

- Drafting Power of Attorney documents, Affidavits, License agreements, Confidentiality Agreements, notices and replies to the notices, any other document impacting legal consequences.

- Maintain records of all Legal documents in electronic files and hard copies and monitor the revisions and approval status.

- Other duties as assigned by the management time to time.

Minimum Qualifications:

- Bachelors degree in Law (B.A.,LL.B; LL.B)

Preferred Qualifications:

- 5 to 8 years of experience in contract drafting and negotiation.

- Detail-oriented professional with knowledge and experience in common law legal principles and contracts.

- Previous experience on contract drafting, review and negotiation.

- Experience with contract lifecycle management system.

- Strong drafting, reporting, research, legal administration, analytical skills.

- Technically sound, organization, Planning, Attention to Details.

Preferred Industries:

Pharmaceutical/FMCG/Chemical