Head Legal | Global Contracts | IT/ ITES | 13+ | Bangalore

The position initially will be responsible for establishing, and then directly managing a legal team in Client's Bangalore, India office. The team consists of transactional attorneys, paralegals, and administrative positions, with full integration into the Client Legal Department. Certain positions will functionally report to the Deputy General Counsel - Global Contracts, while other positions will functionally report to other areas of the Client Legal Department, supporting other business teams, objectives and initiatives.This position requires prior experience successfully establishing, integrating, managing and maintaining offshore legal teams. Additionally, superior leadership, communication and presentation skills, ability to manage laterally and in a matrixed business organization, and to collaborate with colleagues in multiple time zones and geographies, functions and cultural orientations, are all essential. Knowledge of and experience negotiating technology arrangements, facilitating and effectuating complex channel sales program arrangements, and satisfying contractual, legal and regulatory compliance, is required.Principal Duties and Essential Responsibilities:

• Provide general counsel leadership for Client's partner teams on a global basis
• Establish and directly manage a legal team based in the same office, with a subset of that team as functional reports, with the remaining functionally reporting elsewhere
• Continuously facilitate the integration and collaboration of on-shore, near-shore and off-shore Legal Department team members

Global Partner Program:

• Participate as a member of global and regional partner teams
• Collaborate with the Client partner organization on business models and initiatives, assessing new program viability and completeness; contractually memorializing those programs to the extent necessary to achieve objectives
• Manage legal issues (either directly or as participant) applicable to the Client partner business

Global Partner Contracts:

• Manage (internally and externally) and oversee the team negotiating partner agreements, ensuring outcomes align with Client's corporate and business objectives
• Implement new partner forms, partner business models within Client forms, and ad hoc mass amendment processes
• Coordinate issue analysis, escalation and resolution with the global and regional partner business teams
• Manage roll-out of global compliance initiatives as it relates to Client's partner community
• Manage integration activities for acquired companies applicable to the partner business

Contracts Generally:

• Responsible for negotiating areas of contract specialization managed centrally in support of regional contract negotiations
• Maintain Client protections and limitations with respect to financials, intellectual property, privacy compliance and liability
• Maintain working knowledge of business operations and financial models for alignment with contractual requirements; requires consistent coordination with the Business Finance and Operations teams
• Support other business process and management activities within the business
• Direct report to Chief Legal Officer based in US (Atlanta)