Legal Specialist

Job Title - Legal Specialist

Budget 10 - 13 LPA

No of position - 2

Location - Hyderabad

Duration of the project 6 months - extension based on performance

Education (minimum/desirable): Law degree (LLB)Languages: Fluent in English (spoken and written)

Ideal experience:

• 2 to 5 years of overall work experience • Strong Business focus and Client centric approach • Strong and proactive and proven ability to provide legal acumen/ judgement to enhance decision making

Major Activities (Describe main activities )

1. Draft and review standard agreements that includes CDAs, Consultancy Agreements, MSA, SOW and other vendor contracts of similar complexity with minimal supervision, with direct contact of business Clients and with Global Legal

.2. Support Compliance and Operational related activities involving compliance risk analysis, Compliance monitoring, reporting, and working on internal tool maintained by Novartis to enable the compliance operations.

3. Supports Operational functions and provide value to business, drive predictability through operational reporting and analysis, invoice and payment support, Vendor Management/verification.

4. Ability to understand client requirements and take complete ownership of the engagement for compliance and contract process.

5. Conduct research on any query on compliance/contract policies and guide the business teams accordingly.

6. Manage project timelines and ensure delivery of services as per the agreed SLA.

7. Help and support the team to handle business clients and contacts (at global and local levels) with limited supervision by Team Lead/Manager.

8. Complies with and support groups project management tool, standards, policies and initiatives.

9. Follows and tracks key deliverable and milestones for assigned projects.

10. Maintains records for all assigned projects.

11. Performs additional tasks as assigned.

12. Provide support and maintenance to existing management information systems (MIS).

13. Generate and distribute management reports in accurate and timely manner.

14. Perform data analysis for generating reports on periodic basis.

15. Provide strong reporting and analytical information support to management team.

16. Generate both periodic and ad hoc reports as needed.

17. Provide customer support and assistance in issue troubleshooting and resolution

18. Create process documentation/workflows

19. Collect and document of business requirements for project and process improvement/automation efforts

20. Facilitate process workflow modeling in order to collaborate on process improvements, automation capabilities and clearly defined end-to-end use cases

21. Review information and trends to ensure that the output of processes are achieving the desired results and that services are meeting agreed-upon service levels

22. Conduct maturity assessments against the process activities to highlight areas of improvement or concerns

23. Identify issues and risks

24. Bring inconsistencies and problems to the attention of management

25. Participate in the problem resolution

26. Track major incident management process and ensure adherence of the process and escalation requirements within the various support and delivery areas

27. Prepare incident details for post-mortem incident reviews

28. Extract reports and provide a high-level analysis of data for review

29. Maintain a complete understanding of and adheres to all IT policies and processes

Key Performance Indicators (Indicate how performance for this role will be measured)Business Results:q Quality targets met as per business expectationsq High Client feedback scoresq All projects delivered as per Client expectationsq All business key performance indicators (timeliness, accuracy, etc.) are met as per SLAsJob Dimensions (Indicate key facts and figures)Impact on the organization: Support overall legal and compliance requirements and increase horizon of legal services for existing and new Clients, and support process improvement activities.
Ideal Background (State the preferred education and experience level)Capabilities & Expertise:Must:

q Excellent written and oral communication skills

q Good understanding and knowledge of legal research.

q Previous working experience as a Business Analyst

q Excellent organizational and time management skills

q Creative problem solver

q Great analytical skills

q Data-driven approach

q Strong team player who is dynamic and result oriented

q Good project management skills and ability to manage multiple stakeholders effectivelyPreferred:

q Fair understanding on MIS reporting and advanced MS-office skills (Especially on MS-Word, MS-Excel (Macros and VBA coding preferred) and MS-PowerPoint)

q Fundamentally equipped with Compliance processes and tools with relevant work experience

q Ability to learn and understand data from various sources

q Pharmaceutical industry domain knowledge desirable