Manager, Senior Corporate Counsel

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to ensure that objectives are met while also ensuring alignment and support of all customers connected with the organization.
• Maintain a high-performance team and work environment enabling operational objectives and acquisition/retention of people resources to fulfill team mission successfully.
• Develop team members’ performance including formal reviews, establishing departmental and individual objectives and performing applicable assessments.
• Responsible for developing team members and providing professional guidance and coaching to ensure proper career development.
• Provide reports on team metrics, KPIs and results to department leadership and stakeholders.
• In partnership with the Deputy General Counsel, help to establish annual team objectives in alignment with overall departmental objectives.
• Create, update, and revise departmental processes and policies with Deputy General Counsel (or above) approval.
• Lead and mentor both direct and indirect reports with the goal of improving professional expertise, fulfillment of departmental objectives, and employee engagement.
• Provide planning and prioritization for team resources and delegate and assign projects, duties, and objectives.
• Contributes to building and improving process efficiencies within the procurement function and the team.
• Consistently ensure that business is conducted with integrity at all times and that behavior aligns with iCIMS policies, procedures, and core competencies.
• Draft, revise, negotiate and provide contracting support for complex global vendor contracts.
• Liaise with the procurement, privacy, and information security teams with respect to compliance and other requirements contracts.
• Review, update, and maintain the procurement and vendor agreement templates in line with market practice and iCIMS’ legal and business needs.
• Collaborate with stakeholder partners to ensure appropriate awareness and escalation of issues as they arise.
• Act as an advisor to internal customers, including leadership, on a variety of legal matters.
• Partner with other members of the General Counsel’s Office and cross-departmental partners to provide guidance and support execution of strategic objectives.
• Partner with the procurement organization to drive optimizations to improve the vendor contracts process.
• Create contract abstracts and risk summaries as needed.
• Participate in annual risk management assessment and remediation plans.
• Support other strategic projects and initiatives as needed.
   

Qualification & Experience

• A minimum of 8 years of experience negotiating complex software as a service, software licensing, professional services, and/or other technology transactions is required. 10+ years of related experience is preferred. Some experience in leadership or people management strongly preferred.
• Bachelor's Degree and LL.B. degree from a law school accredited by the Bar Council of India is required.
• Member in good standing with the Bar Council of India is required.
• Admitted as an Advocate by the Bar Counsel of India and has a Certificate of Practice.