Corporate Counsel- Commercial Contracts

Quest Global is a global engineering services company driven by aspiration, hunger and humility, and guided by a leadership team that cares for its people, their ideas, and their well-being. We know that flexibility and openness produce the most fertile environment in which innovation, creativity, growth, and success can thrive.

We are looking for dreamers, who understand and value the ways in which engineering has the potential to solve the problems of today that stand in the way of tomorrow; believers, who long to be part of an organization that is ethical, promotes social responsibility, and is dedicated to being a force for good; doers, who seek challenges that are both meaningful to them and creates a positive impact on others.

As a diverse team of over 13,000 humble geniuses, we recognize that what we are really engineering is a brighter future for us all. If you long to contribute to meaningful work and be part of an organization that truly believes when you win, we all win, and when you fail, we all learn, then we’re eager to hear from you.

The achievers and collaborators we seek, have the following characteristics and skills:
Role:
- **Drafting, reviewing, negotiating commercial contracts**:

- Independently negotiating, drafting and reviewing commercial agreements, customer contracts, Sales contracts, Master Services Agreements, SoPs, customer NDA’s,, Amendments to customer agreements, Price / Rate revision agreements and the like;
- negotiating commercial agreements as a part of a cross functional team, working closely with the Sales and Commercial functions, and arriving at balanced positions to protect and promote business interests
- support stakeholders in understanding legal implications, exposures and mitigations on commercial contracts;
- engage with stakeholders actively and contribute to customer relationship management;
- Facilitate and track the end to end process of contracts (Contract Lifecycle Management).
- Creation of checklists for compliance post execution of commercial contracts
- Reviewing SoWs to ensure they are aligned to the MSA and do not lead to additional exposure to risk/ liabilities/ indemnities.
- Ensuring the contractual obligations undertaken do not lead to surprise / unknown risk / liability exposure.
- **Drafting, reviewing and negotiating consultant and Target NDA’s and contracts.**
- assist other cross function departments and stakeholders in review and closure of Consultancy Agreements, consultant and Target NDA’s and contracts.
- ** Support in customer contract compliance program.**
- Actively support and facilitate the development and adherence to customer contract compliance program and also assist other cross function departments in internal audits relating to said compliances.
- ** Support in internal/external audits, automations and provide necessary training to other depts.**
- Provide support to the internal / external audit teams on all matters relating to commercial contracts
- Play a major role in automation / process improvement initiatives for commercial contracts
- Train the Sales / Commercial teams on various aspects pertaining to commercial contracting, post execution compliance, troubleshooting, customer grievance support, etc.,
- Educate the Sales/ Commercial teams on exposure to indemnities and other liabilities.
- ** Adhoc support to the team and other depts.**
- Proactive and open to help achieve team goals and to take up adhoc projects within the team.
- suggest and participate actively in automation initiatives to improve efficiency and support a growing business- Qualification: LLB/ B.L / or similar Bachelor’s Degree from a premier University.
- Master’s Degree with specialization in commercial contracts/ drafting will be an added advantage
- Knowledge of Governmental contracting regulations - EAR, ITAR, FAR, DFAR etc., and other related requirements such as denied party screening, OFAC etc., will be preferred
- Post qualification relevant experience: minimum 9 years
- Should have independently handled international commercial contracts, governmental contracts, customer compliances, customer audits, customer certifications in reputed IT services organizations
- Knowledge of / exposure to commercial contracts and negotiations across the globe
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills, command over language, ability to articulate effectively, persuasive skills
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Solution orientation - passion to think creatively and solve business issues in a legally compliant manner
- Ability to provide solutions by reaching out to and partnering with business teammates, collaborate with business and understand business aspects
- Ability to breakdown legal intricacies into simple, clear and crisp communications to help global business leaders effectively understand
- ability to work independently with senior / business leaders and foster relationships
- Big picture orientation - ability to s