Description:
Position Summary & Key Areas of ResponsibilityAs part of the legal team, you will work on a broad variety of legal matters supporting a wide range of business units and functions globally. You will support Global Procurement and Real Estate, and the Products and Services Operations (“PSO”). You will be part of a large integrated worldwide in-house legal team.
- Act as legal advisor to management, and business clients for the above-described areas of the organization
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating various types of international contracts and other legal documents, including but not limited to non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), real estate documents, master framework agreements, statements of work, software-as-a-service (SaaS) agreements, novation agreements, partnering, licensing, reseller, and outsourcing agreements
- Provide rapid, proactive, practical, and pragmatic business-oriented legal advice
- Drafting and revising contract and other legal templates
- Managing legal disputes with vendors, partners, landlords including but not limiting to coordinating with the internal team as well as the outside counsels in handling the disputes
- Support the Global Real Estate team in reviewing property agreements and dealing generally with matters relating to real estate globally
- Handling matters pertaining to regulatory authorities in various jurisdictions for the PSO organization
- Coordinate and advise on commercial disputes and assist on litigation matters
- Advise on complex commercial law projects such as partnerships and joint ventures
- Advise on other areas such as competition law, regulatory compliance including data protection, and anti-bribery laws.
- Participate in the law department activities including development of best practices, special projects, developing and maintaining templates that comply with company policies and local law
- Analyze and interpret law, rulings and regulations that affect company and recommend changes accordingly
- Provide internal training on relevant legal issues to clients and members of the Law Department
- Manage outside legal counsel and external legal spend
- Other duties as assigned
Basic Qualifications:
- Graduate of a well-regarded law school.
- Preferred that candidate has at least 4 – 7 years' experience in a major law firm and / or in-house at a multinational company, with focus on real estate and commercial contracts
- Experience working on commercial real estate leases in the US and other jurisdictions
- Experience in complex IT services contracts (IP / IT expertise valued) as well as in IT technology / consulting, SaaS contracts
- Experience in multi-jurisdictional transactions
- Strong organizational talent who enjoys working in a global distributed team
- Results-oriented thinker with self-initiative and able to interlink both legal and business perspective
- Proactivity, flexibility, and willingness to work on a broad variety of matters in a dynamic busy environment
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, including a clear and concise drafting style.
- Offers of employment are conditional upon passage of screening criteria applicable to the jo