Assistant Legal Manager

Key Responsibilities

Contract Management: Drafting, reviewing, vetting, and negotiating various commercial agreements (e.g., NDAs, MSAs, licensing agreements).

- Legal Research & Analysis: Conducting thorough legal research and providing analysis to support decision-making and senior management. - Compliance Management: Ensuring adherence to all relevant local, national, and international laws and regulations (e.g., GDPR, anti-bribery laws).

- Dispute Resolution & Litigation Support: Assisting in managing legal proceedings, liaising with external counsel, and supporting dispute resolution and litigation matters.

- Advisory Role: Providing general legal advice to various internal functions (e.g., HR, procurement) on matters related to employees, vendors, and operations.

- Documentation & Records: Managing and maintaining all legal documentation, records, and contract repositories.

- Team Management: Assisting in training, supervising, and mentoring junior team members.

• Providing general advisory, formalising SOPs and policy documents for the organisation.
• Identifying contractual, commercial, operational risks and exposures in the contracts; providing inputs/ mark-up on contracts.
• Provide legal support on ongoing contract management related activities.
• Participate in discussions with internal stakeholders, external counsels and advisors during the entire contracting process.
• Negotiation of contract terms and conditions. Leading Contract Management activities including providing advice on contracts, analyze risks and issues and recommend resolutions.
• Advising various functions within the organization on various aspects related to employees, vendors etc
• Participating in internal projects of organization and the legal department and leading
• Managing, continuous training of the team
• Sharing bets practices of the role with the team on regular basis

Preferred candidate profile

Experience: Typically 3+ years of experience in a legal role, preferably in-house or with a law firm