Details of the Organization

Piramal Group is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. They do not discriminate based upon race, ethnicity, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetics, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

They base their employment decisions on merit considering qualifications, skills, performance, and achievements. They endeavor to ensure that all applicants and employees receive equal opportunity in personnel matters, including recruitment, selection, training, placement, promotion, demotion, compensation and benefits, transfers, terminations, and working conditions, including reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities as well as individuals with needs related to their religious observance or practice.

Details of the Job/Internship

Piramal Pharma Ltd in Mumbai is currently seeking a highly skilled and motivated Manager Legal – Contracts to join their dynamic team. As a Manager Legal – Contracts, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing and managing all contractual aspects of their pharmaceutical business

Role and Responsibilities

• Understand the nature of the deal and accordingly suggest legal, commercial, performance related terms and condition (contracts for 3rd Party, LL, Customer, Sub Contracting, Service Contracts, Works Contracts).
• Draft all commercial contracts, highlight high risk areas, discuss with Supply chain, sales, legal team to get it mitigated.
• Act as coordinator between various team within Piramal to reach to consensus.
• Analyze customer and/or supplier company requirements for contract amendments, responses to customer and/or supplier identified issues.
• Participate with Piramal’s SCM and Sales team in discussion with vendor’s or customer’s legal team.
• Prepare standard contract templates/NDA templates/Bank guarantee templates for each category of service/products purchase or sale. Time to time review the existing Piramal templates to incorporate changes due to change in the internal and external environment.
• Prepare and maintain central repository of existing contract and ensure the access to selected group of users for confidentiality.
• Track the validity date of contract and work with cross function team to timely renew / termination of contracts.
• Maintain continuous surveillance of status and progress of the contract and potential areas of difficulty.
• Evaluate and monitor contract performance to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and determine action to rectify contract noncompliance.
• Understands both strategic and operational goals and translate them into effective contracting practices.
• Improve turn-around time to finalize the contract.
• Support Supply chain to invoke any Bank guarantee due to performance issue or draft legal notices.
• Work with SCM team to track whether purchase / sale is done as per contract rate.
• Be Part of change Management to ensure most of regular/high value/strategic purchases are covered under contract.
• Identify suitable Contract management Software and implement the same across Piramal locations and be responsible for operations for the same.

Eligibility

• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in Law
• 6 to 8 years’ experience in customer, supply and service contract negotiation and administration preferably in pharma industry
• Experience in commercial, risk assessment, regulations & legal aspects of contracts
• In-depth knowledge of Indian , US and Europe land of Law
• Good presentation, verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex ideas in easy to understand business terms to all levels of management.
• Good listener with analytical mind, and able to work in cross functional organization
• Demonstrates working knowledge with MS-Office suite of software applications and tools, including: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project & MS-Outlook.
• Automation mindset
• Significant knowledge of Supply Chain with In-depth understanding of the various terms and conditions (legal as well as commercial) and it’s impact on company’s risk in contract
• Basic knowledge of Income Tax and GST tax laws
• Experience focused on transformation aspects particularly Global Business Services, operational improvement and offshoring.
• Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma and other business optimization techniques is desirable
• Ability to negotiate for terms and conditions that are favorable for Piramal while within the boundaries of land of law
• Ability to quickly learn the technical/commercial aspect of the deal

Salary/Stipend

The salary will be discussed with the candidate itself.

Type of Opportunity

Fulltime

Country

India

State

Maharashtra

City

Mumbai

Address

Piramal Agastya, PRL Agastya Pvt Ltd., LBS Marg, Kamani Junction,, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400070