Senior Team Member - Legal

Cipla; Mumbai City; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Cipla Mumbai is seeking a qualified lawyer to execute legal operations for TechOps, handling drafting, negotiation and finalisation of commercial agreements and related documents. You will research, advise and manage contracts end-to-end, coordinating with cross-functional teams to ensure timely closure while staying compliant with applicable laws and Cipla standards.

The role requires experience in pharma contracts, strong negotiation skills, and the ability to work independently and under

Qualifications

• Drafts, negotiates and finalises Commercial Agreements/Legal Documents within timelines.
• Provides advisory support and ensures compliance with Cipla standards.
• Reviews legal and commercial risks and suggests mitigating measures.

Responsibilities

• Interact with cross-functional teams to update and modify agreements.
• Coordinate with stakeholders for timely execution of contracts.
• Prepare opinions/advisories and guide junior team members.
• Assist in end-to-end management of basic commercial agreements.
• Keep abreast of regulatory changes in pharma across territories.
• Manage multiple stakeholders and ensure timely closure of agreements.

Skills

Legal drafting

Negotiation

Contract review

Advisory

Regulatory awareness

Education

LLB

LLM preferred

Job description

Execute legal operations and provide assistance and support to the TechOps Team Leads, independently handle and end to end manage finalization of basic commercial agreements and legal documents. Undertake legal research and assist the respective Team Leads in project and litigation management.

Key Accountabilities (1/6)

Drafting, negotiation and finalisation of Commercial Agreements/Legal Documents such as Confidentiality Agreement, Service Agreements, Letter of Authority/Letter of Undertaking etc. within timelines. Provide adequate support to the respective Team Leads and Relevant TechOps Department for structuring and preparing documentation for commercial deals and ensure adherence to specific state/country laws and regulations

• Interaction with cross-functional team to modify the existing agreements to capture the applicable provisions
• Review, finalisation and timely completion of the agreements as may be required by the TechOps Legal supporting Departments.
• Drafting of confidentiality agreements, service agreements, software agreements, procurement agreements, and other legal documentations in consultation with the TechOps Legal supporting Departments within assigned timelines.
• Negotiation and finalisation of such commercial agreements with internal stakeholders (TechOps Legal supporting Departments teams) and external stakeholders (counter party/lawyers).
• Coordination with assigned TechOps Legal supporting Departments for efficient and timely execution of the commercial agreements, highlights the risks and consolidates the comments received from cross functional teams.
• Assistance in modification of the legal agreements by identifying the areas of concern and modifying the drafts in line with the latest legal amendments
• reviews and provides observations to the Team Lead regarding legal and commercial risks associated with transactions and their potential impact on TechOps Legal supporting Departments, and suggest appropriate mitigating measures
• Deals with critical and difficult internal stakeholders and ensures finalisation of the agreements within the timelines stipulated by the TechOps Legal supporting Departments and handles the pressures and delivers the work smoothly without any escalations.

Key Accountabilities (2/6)

Providing advisory in relation to any queries raised by the TechOps Legal supporting Departments teams.

• To provide advisory and necessary assistance and support to Team Leads to implement the best legal practices and execute all activities in compliance with Cipla standards to ensure smooth and uninterrupted flow of TechOps Legal supporting Departments operations from a legal standpoint.
• Reviews and provides observations to the Team Lead regarding legal and commercial risks associated with transactions and their potential impact and suggest appropriate mitigating measures
• Provides adequate support to the respective Team Leads and Relevant TechOps Department for all matters as applicable to the TechOps Legal supporting Departments in line with prevalent law.

Key Accountabilities (3/6)

Provide adequate support to the respective Team Lead in day-to-day advisory/opinions to the businesses

• To provide guidance to the junior team members for discussing legal issues and contractual obligations with the internal stakeholders and ensure all relevant documents required for giving the opinion/advisory are available.
• Prepare the draft opinion/advisory after obtaining all the relevant facts and application of applicable laws.
• Finalise the non-critical/operational advisory/opinion in consultation and guidance from the manager.
• Knowledge of pharma industry law, regulations and practices for assigned territories
• To provide guidance for end-to-end management closure of non-critical/operational advisory/opinion to the business.
• Assist the manager in finalisation of critical opinion by preparing initial draft opinion along with the reference to applicable laws and precedents.
• Assist the manager in preparing a learning deck from the opinions to be circulated among the key stakeholders
• Knowledge of pharma industry law, regulations and practices for assigned territories

Key Accountabilities (4/6)

Provide adequate support to the respective Team Lead in day-to-day advisory/opinions to the relevant TechOps Department.

• Coordinate with the TechOps Legal supporting Departments team to obtain relevant information, collation of documents and preparation of list of events etc.
• Prepare accurate interpretation of contract documents and provide observations to the Team Lead
• Assist the Team Lead in preparing justifications to inquiries regarding existing contract obligations and revisions, identify risks and issues, and suggest alternatives for it.

Key Accountabilities (5/6)

Undertake various ad-hoc projects assigned by the Team Leads from time to time.

• Assist in preparing brief/project deck/reports after examination of the documents collated and provided by the internal and external stakeholders.
• Research and prepare notes on the applicable laws and regulatory landscape for the identified territories and keep abreast herself/himself about the legislative changes in pharmaceutical industry in those territories.
• Coordinate with the internal stakeholders and external stakeholders. Prepare update deck for the team.
• Update and maintain data relating to contracts management.

Key Accountabilities (6/6)

• Deal with multiple functions in Tech-ops and Corporate with large volume work
• Dealing with critical functions such as manufacturing agreements, IT, Finance/Tax, Logistics and Secretarial and ensuring timely closure of agreements.
• Independent handling of basic commercial agreements end to end and support to Team Lead as required for timely handling of volume of assignments.
• Time Management and organised work is essential to manage multiple stakeholders
• Project Management for coordinating with cross functional stakeholders in driving excellence and closure of transactions with result oriented and solution oriented approach
• Technology skills and using technology as a tool to deliver and simplify work

Key Interactions (1/2)

• TechOps Legal supporting Departments and cross functional team teams to understand the TechOps Legal supporting Departments requirements and provides the required agreements or advisory
• Interacts with other team members of legal and discusses the issues which may have been dealt by other and understands the actions or stand taken and provide solutions or inputs on the TechOps Legal supporting Departments queries

Key Interactions (2/2)

• Legal counsel, lawyers, consultants of counter party
• TechOps Legal supporting Departments team of counter party

Dimensions (1/2)

• Quality of output
• Turnaround time
• Internalising all Legal work and legal research and opinion

Dimensions (2/2)

Key Decisions (1/2)

Recommendations

Value addition in contracts by thoroughly reviewing and recommends changes in the standard documents basis the issues arisen to minimise the risk

Review and finalisation of agreements with minimum supervision

Highlights the critical issues and discusses the way forward

Inquisitive to learn new things, takes up additional work load and takes up the new challenges

End to end management of basic contracts and legal documentation.

Value addition in critical commercial agreements

Key Decisions (2/2)

Dedication, legal knowledge and technical skill, development of subject matter expertise, logical and business orientation. Understanding relevant departments requirements and delivers the work on committed timelines. Ability to learn new things. Strong communication skills and customer relation management is critical.

Education Qualification

LLB

(LLM may be preferred)

5 to 7 years of total legal experience Pharma industry preferred