Senior Manager - Legal

The client is seeking a highly experienced and strategic Senior Manager to lead their global Legal, Compliance, and Contract Management functions. This pivotal role will be responsible for ensuring the company's legal integrity, regulatory adherence, and effective contract lifecycle management. The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of legal principles, compliance frameworks, and contract administration, and will be capable of providing expert guidance to senior leadership. In the role of Senior Manager, you will provide expert legal advice to senior management on a wide range of legal and compliance matters. You will anticipate and mitigate potential legal risks, develop and implement legal strategies aligned with business objectives. You will establish and maintain a comprehensive compliance program, monitor and interpret relevant laws and regulations, conduct internal audits and investigations to ensure compliance, and manage relationships with regulatory bodies. You will also identify, assess, and mitigate legal and compliance risks, develop and implement risk management policies and procedures, ensure effective risk reporting, and provide training and education to employees on legal and compliance matters. Acting as a liaison with external legal counsel and regulatory bodies, you will manage intellectual property portfolios. Your responsibilities will also include overseeing the entire contract lifecycle, from drafting and negotiation to execution, renewal, and termination. You will maintain a centralized contract database, ensure accurate record-keeping, review and negotiate contract terms and conditions to protect the company's interests, monitor contract compliance, ensure adherence to contractual obligations, generate contract reports, and provide insights on contract performance. Additionally, you will develop company-wide legal, compliance, and contract management policies, communicate policies to all employees, design and develop interactive dashboards to visualize key metrics, collect, analyze, and interpret data, define and track relevant KPIs, generate regular reports and presentations, and automate data collection and reporting. To be successful in this role, you must have a Bachelor's degree in Law (LLB) required; Master's degree (LLM) or equivalent preferred, along with 10+ years of experience in legal, compliance, and contract management. You should have a strong understanding of relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards, experience in contract negotiation, drafting, and administration, familiarity with contract management software and tools, excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team, be detail-oriented, highly organized, experienced in creating and implementing compliance programs, familiar with risk assessment methodologies, able to manage multiple projects and deadlines, knowledgeable about data privacy laws, and possess high ethical standards and integrity.,