Attorney (R-16097)

**Why We Work at Dun & Bradstreet**

The Role:
Seeking an experienced attorney who is an effective negotiator, a strategic planner, business enabler, and has willingness to learn and adapt as the business and legal landscapes evolve. Job responsibilities include but are not limited to:
**Commercial Contracts**:
Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements on behalf of multiple and diverse stakeholders while maintaining accountability, attention to detail, and organization in a fast-paced environment.

Build and enhance contractual framework, update templates on timely basis to align with new laws, rules, regulations, and legislation, and ensure consistency with global requirements.

Manage and enhance the contract management system and design and implement process improvement at large.

**Compliance and Ethics**:
**Enterprise Risk Management**: Identify significant corporate risks in business matters, operations, and processes and work with the business to develop appropriate mitigation measures.

**Advisory**: Advise on a broad range of matters to advance the strategic, operational, and legal priorities of the company. Provide practical legal advice in a variety of areas including but not limited to commercial and corporate transactions, product development, protection of corporate assets (including intellectual property protection), HR matters, and corporate governance as needed.

**Key objectives of the role**:
**Protecting the Franchise**, by negotiating agreements in accordance with our contracting standards and risk tolerance thresholds, protecting our intellectual property, implementing best practices and procedures, conducting training, raising awareness across the organization, and ensuring collaboration and teamwork both within India and across the global organization and legal team to ensure we are a “best practice” organization.

**Growing the Franchise, **ensuring customer growth and retention through effective negotiation and execution of commercial contracts, and supporting the business to bring products to market

**Key requirements**

Education
- LL.B. /LLM Degree
- Locally and/or globally recognized privacy certification preferred

**Skills & Competencies**
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English;
- Ability to understand and communicate legal concepts and analysis to a range of constituents, including business and technical team members, executives, partners, external counsel, and others.
- Strong interpersonal skills, and experience effectively managing relationships with team members, external and internal stakeholders, customers, vendors, and senior leadership.
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, meet competing deadlines, and work both independently and on teams
- Ability to develop and implement processes and procedures as needed

**Experience**
- 7-9 years of work experience as in-house counsel working independently or with mínimal supervision handling variety of legal matters including commercial contracts, employee matters, data privacy compliances etc.

**This role reports into Senior Attorney, Head of Corporate Legal Affairs - India