Description:

Position Summary & Key Areas of Responsibility
As 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