Senior Associate- Contracting Operations

GSK is a science-led global healthcare company with a special purpose: Ambitious for patients, Accountable for impact and Do the right thing. Our values and culture put people at the centre of what we do to support the success of our business. That includes the Legal function – our vision is to run Legal like a business for the business. We focus on delivering excellent advice to achieve GSK’s Innovation, Performance and Trust priorities with courage and accountability. We invest in people so that everyone can be themselves, feel good and keep growing. The Global Contracting Operations Team (GCOT) is a cutting-edge Legal operations group located in India, bringing together the responsibilities and management of contracting. It will deliver effective and efficient systems and tools to support contracting processes that is simplified and consistent. By joining our dedicated team of professionals, you will become part of a world-class contracting support function at our Global Capabilities Centre in Bengaluru, India. Along the way you will have many opportunities to learn, develop and be a key member of the team that will strengthen our support capabilities and deliver on the success of our business.

This role will provide YOU the opportunity to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. 

As a member of the Global Contracting Operations Team, you will be accountable for the assisting in the overall quality operations and administration of global contracting.

  Responsibilities include:

• Under the supervision of the Manager, this role will be responsible for the triage of client requests for contracting support, and ensure requests are efficiently, effectively, and appropriately reviewed, assessed, and allocated in a timely manner to the right Legal groups as appropriate. 
• The role will require high level engagement internally and externally including frequent interactions with the business.  A strong sense of delivery and execution is key to ensure client experience is consistent, efficient and high quality.
• Ensure clear understanding of the end-to-end contracting process and governance, and feedback any areas that may require clarification or refinement for continuous improvement
• Manage client inquiries and feedback
• Regular review and assessment of the client requests and triage process with the Global Contracting Operations Service Manager to ensure continuous monitoring and improvement.
• Ensure coordination and lines of communications with the various Legal groups are efficient and effective.
• Assist in various operations and administrations task responsibilities, such as BAU reporting, manage and maintain training content and other resources, and various communications.

If you have these skills, we would like to speak to you.

• 2+ years of experience in contract administration /operations or a similar role in legal operations, including managing client requests for contract support and appropriate assessment for timely triaging of the same. Technical skills to understand IT systems supporting contracting process is a plus.
• Require certain level of knowledge and experience in contracts and related processes.
• Willingness to work flexible hours as this position supports global business located in different geographies.

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Why Us?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it’s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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