Details of the Organization

IQVIA India’s clinical and commercial services have grown in parallel with the growth and development of the Indian healthcare industry and today encompass a wide portfolio. Their close to 15,000 employees across 14 cities in India are drawn from backgrounds in life sciences, data sciences, analytics, technology and consulting and help them deliver technology-enabled services across the entire continuum of the drug development and commercial life cycle.

Details of the Job/Internship

IQVIA India is looking for a candidate for the position of Senior Legal Counsel with 10 years of experience to work with them in their Bengaluru office in Hybrid Mode.

Role and Responsibilities

• Partner with HR teams and other stakeholders within India and across the region to provide support for all contentious and non-contentious employment law work.
• Proactively identify, address, and manage legal risk issues related to employment law.
• Keep up to date on employment law developments within India and across the region and provide thought leadership as to the impact on IQVIA.
• Providing expert advice and input in relation to global projects, policies, and other initiatives.
• Supporting the Ethics and Compliance Office in relation to employment related investigations and other compliance issues.
• Develop employment policies and processes at local and regional levels.
• Support workforce actions such as redundancies, bench aging, terminations, performance cases and similar issues.
• Support M&A teams from an employment perspective, including supporting M&A and HR teams with respect to workforce integration. 
• Responsible for the engagement and use of outside counsel across the region, including managing to a budget.
• Conduct training and build knowhow as required for both HR and non-HR colleagues.
• Provides employment law support for mergers and/or acquisitions as appropriate. Manages others where requested.

Eligibility

• Indian qualified attorney with a minimum of ten (10) years of overall experience, with significant experience advising organizations on employment law issues across Asia Pacific. Significant employment law expertise in India required and multi-country expertise preferred.
• Deep experience advising in relation to the full range of employment issues, including trade union and other collective issues, on a cross-border basis.
• Experience in working in a complex, matrixed multinational organization – either directly or on a secondment basis.
• Demonstrable experience of driving change.
• Ability to operate and exercise judgement independently.
• Ability to influence and manage multiple internal and external stakeholders. Ability to deliver through others and with limited resources.
• Ability to engage on technical topics and communicate them in a clear and easy-to-understand manner.
• Experience in preparing executive briefings and presentations.
• Ability to translate global strategies locally.
• Comfortable with uncertainty, able to exercise judgement in a fast-moving environment.
• Fluent in English with a second language an advantage.

Salary/Stipend

Compensation details will be finalized during the interview process with the selected candidate.

Type of Opportunity

Fulltime

Country

India

Address

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Application and Registration Details

After you apply, you will receive the next steps of the application process via email. 

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