Legal Associate, Group Commercial

Role Responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY*

Define key responsibilities to reflect the duties and responsibilities of this role.

• To support the Head, Legal COE, GBS India as a member of the Bank’s Group Commercial Legal Centre of Excellence based in Bangalore. The role will have a specific focus on supporting procurement and commercial contracts with vendors and other third parties across the Bank’s global footprint.
• To manage the Group Commercial Legal centralized mailbox on all incoming matters for legal support, reviewing the request for completeness and following up with requesters/SCM for additional information wherever required and triaging the request to lawyers in the Commercial Legal Team following the guidelines.
• To draft, review and validate global procurement contracts (technology and non-technology) like NDAs, proof of concept agreements, SOWs, Order Forms, change orders, to ensure they meet the Group’s third-party contract standards and applicable law.
• To assist with contractual queries from business stakeholders and supply chain in case of any ambiguity. Provide clarity on contract language by conducting contract review and research and provide analysis and recommendation accordingly.
• To assist the legal teams across the Bank to ensure appropriate overall matter management. Where external counsel is appointed, to manage the engagement and external legal costs.
• To provide stakeholders with accurate and timely information and advice regarding the status of contract matters.
• To keep up to date with relevant policies and procedures and applicable law.
• To assist with continuous improvement initiatives in relation to contract processes and workflow.
• To support on team administration tasks where required

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Develop the legal service delivery model for Commercial legal support and a best in class legal operational approach to the team’s global legal activity, including through the adoption of legal technology.
• Promote a culture and practice of good conduct of business and adherence to legal standards within the Group

Business

• Support the global Businesses and other Functions with commercial and technology vendor and other third party business arrangements to ensure they meet the Group’s third-party risk management requirements and applicable law.
• Support other regulatory remediation and change initiatives impacting the Group’s global vendor, other third party and intragroup arrangements, and related change management in respect of operational processes, policies and standards and contract documentation.

Processes

• Responsible for adhering to the Group Contracts Policy, the Group’s Third-Party Risk Management Framework and related policies and standards.
• Maintain the team’s Department Operating Instructions for third party contracts and keep them under review.
• Support with continuous improvement initiatives in relation to contract management, workflow and other process and legal operations tools as well as contract playbooks, guidance and templates.
• Keep up to date with Group policies and standards and applicable law across the Group’s international jurisdictions.

People & Talent

• Promoting good legal practice and standards across the Group.
• Fostering an environment that drives best practice and development across the wider Legal team.

Risk Management

• Providing expert guidance and support on legal and operational risk identification and management.

Governance

• Establish strong relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, while independently performing own duties.
• Work with Businesses and Functions and colleagues in the Legal Function to identify and develop process enhancements and simplification opportunities and innovative solutions to improve and enhance efficiency of legal operations and service delivery.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Commercial: pragmatic, creative, practical and solution-oriented.
• Proactive: able to use initiative and ready to identify issues without being asked and provide advice accordingly.
• Profile: able to work with various levels of management.
• Flexible: able and willing to work long hours and, at short notice, travel to, and work in, challenging environments for periods of time (if required).
• Team player: personable, responsible, helpful.
• Organised: able to prioritise workload and manage conflicting priorities to meet deadlines. Strong attention to detail to highlight potential risks in contracts and errors.
• Reliable, tactful, discreet, diplomatic: able to work with board members, other senior staff and persons of different nationalities and from different cultures, have good judgment and strong decision-making skills.
• Self-motivated: able to operate independently with minimal supervision.
• Energetic: enthusiastic about the role, the function and the Group.
• Responsibility and perseverance.
• Highest professional standards.

Key stakeholders

• Supply Chain Management
• Risk Owners, including TTO, CISRO, CISO, Chief Data Office, Group Data Protection Office, Financial Crime Compliance, Risk, HR and Group Internal Audit
• Relevant Businesses and Global Functions
• Enterprise Legal Team (including Group Commercial Legal, Data, Technology & Operations Legal, Business Technology Legal, SC Ventures Legal, Corporate and M&A Legal and Legal COO)
• Disputes & Government Investigations Legal Team
• Country Legal Teams

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for Good and the Group’s brand and values and demonstrate the Valued Behaviours as a member of the Legal Function.
• Perform other responsibilities as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

TRAINING, LICENSES, MEMBERSHIPS AND CERTIFICATIONS

• Must be a qualified lawyer in a common law jurisdiction post qualification experience of at least 2 years.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Good knowledge and understanding of commercial contract requirements in relation to technology and non-technology procurement matters
• Experience in contract legal support (whether through in-house or private practice) and business acumen
• Experience in reviewing contracts using contract templates and/or using contract guidance or playbooks
• Good knowledge and understanding of commercial contract requirements in relation to technology and non-technology procurement matters

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.
Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do

• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well

• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations

• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum

• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns

• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits

• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning

• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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