Legal Associate, Associate-Contracts Support, Junior Associate

finalizations and Contracts Solution sales.

* Contracts Negotiation: Negotiated contracts for various business categories (e.g. IT, Services,
MRO, CapEx).
* Strategic Sourcing: Supported in RFI, RFP and RFQ initiatives to ensure competitive sourcing.
Evaluate IT contracts and perform renewal strategy options to include cost analysis, term,
products/type of support on different contract variations for IS management for understanding for
final decision-making. Obtain/negotiate proposals/quotes to gain cost savings and rebates. Assist
IS Managers in navigating through various procurement related activities and approvals, providing
IT procurement and VMO expertise.
* Contracts Management: Managed contract management life cycle involving execution of bespoken
terms; collaborated with various departments and executed Contract Management tool for 5000+
contracts.
* Task Management: Evaluated executed contracts to find anomalies and implemented the client
policy.
* Procurement Compliance: Implemented business owners suggestions on designated suppliers based
on how those suppliers are performing. 10% to 30% cost avoidance was accomplished.
* Contracting Strategy: Formulated the contracting strategy which was implemented across North
American region covering more than 10 affiliates of the client.
* Contracts Management Solution Design: Formulated the Contracts Management solution for existing
and potential clients while supporting the sales team.
* Training: Provided yearly training on Contracts Management on clients site for two years (USA)
* Contracting Policies and Procedures: Formulated contracting policies, do's and don'ts and
redesigned the contract approval process which saved the 30% execution time.
* Sales: Presented Contracts Management Solution modals (e.g. dedicated, shared) to potential
clients.
* Service Level: Standardized processes for internals to assign obligations and identified
appropriate SLAs
* Risk Mitigation: Formulated Contract management tools which serve as a basis for driving
standardization & improvement (e.g. Contracts Guide, Contracts Playbook)
* Vendor Management: Renegotiated orders/contracts at the time of renewal and saved 15% - 20%
cost (Average)
* Spend Analysis: Supported procurement cost reduction by 25% - 30% by analyzing expenditure
data.
* Gap Analysis: Conducted and presented gap analysis in executed contracts which improved overall
efficiency in forthcoming engagements. Recommendations were implemented globally.
* Project Coordination: Ensured effective communication between client management, internal
stakeholder and third-party suppliers for smooth and timely engagement.
* Risk Assessment: Conducted supplier evaluation and coordinated business requirement in supplier
finalization process. Single point of contact for supplier communications and quarries.
* Contracts Administration: Maintained contracts repository on SAP and Ariba.
* Stakeholder Management: Collaborated with cross-functional teams on 10 members from finance,
sales, and advertising operations to develop strategies used in mediation and arbitration of high
profile commercial disputes.

Legal Associate (Contracts): Worked on multiple projects for contract review and abstraction.

* Contract Review: Reviewed IT, Telecom and Services contracts to highlight the deviations and
risks.
* Contracts Playbook: Created contracts playbooks which, approved by the client and was
implemented across the region.
* Team Management: Managed the team of 35 resources, tracked their work and performance, provided
guidelines and suggestion to improve the efficiency.
* Contracts Review Strategy: Formulated multiple strategy for existing and new contracts review
projects and delivered the result in aggressive timelines.
* Contracts Abstraction: Handled contracts abstraction projects to pullout relevant information
from more than 5000 contracts with 99% accuracy. Recommendations from the final report was
implemented globally.
* Contract Drafting: Engaged in drafting and preparing agreements (e.g. Master Services
Agreement, software agreement, IT and other IT enabled service agreement).
* Data Analytics: Conducted data analysis of 5000 contracts and client management on compliance
gap mitigation.
* Project Coordination: Ensured effective communication with client management and for key action
points at all levels and accomplished 95% quality in business process with periodic risk
assessment.

* Contracts support: Supported contracts review.
* Document Management: Maintained repository of contracts and related documents.
* Research: Conducted basic legal research for contractual matters.
* Summary: Provided selected contracts summary as per the requirement.