Specialist-Legal

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Manages Contract management systems which includes CDAs, Consultancy Agreements, Vendor Agreement, MSA and other contracts of similar complexity level in direct contact with the business clients and with Global Legal.
• Supports other Legal projects such as Legal research, Due-diligence, pre litigation support, document review, etc. Support Compliance and Operational related activities involving compliance risk analysis, compliance audit readiness, Compliance monitoring and reporting and working on internal tool maintained by Novartis to enable the compliance operations.
• Supports Legal functions and provide value to business, drive predictability through legal reporting and analysis, invoice and payment support, Vendor Management/verification.
• Maintains the overview on timelines and deliverables in all assigned projects. Follows and support group’s project management tool, standards, policies and initiatives.
• Follows and tracks key deliverable and milestones for assigned projects. Maintains records for all assigned projects. Supports optimization of current processes and/or introduction of new or modified processes. Maintains audit, SOP and training compliance.
• Drive design and enhancement of existing services / deliverables. Internal customer satisfaction with quality of services provided.

Qualification & Experience

• Law Degree LLB/LLM
• Proficiency in contract management, redlining, drafting, due diligence and negotiation skills
• 3 to 4 years of overall work experience
• Strong legal aptitude with focus on contracts