Assistant Legal Counsel at S&P Global

About S&P Global

S&P Global provides governments, businesses, and individuals with market data, expertise, and technology solutions for confident decision-making.

Our services span from global energy solutions to sustainable finance solutions.

From helping our customers perform investment analysis to guiding them through sustainability and energy transition across supply chains, our solutions help unlock new opportunities and solve challenges.

About the Opportunity

S&P Global Commodity Insights (CI) is seeking a dynamic, commercially minded, and technologically savvy lawyer to join its Legal Strategy & Operations team as an Assistant Legal Counsel based in India, working the EMEA shift.

Reporting to the Head of Legal, Strategy & Operations, this is a varied and interesting role that includes drafting commercial contract templates, managing legal projects, Contract Life Cycle Management (CLM), knowledge management, and providing legal training and support.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Drafting, reviewing, updating, and proofreading contract templates and documents, and updating and maintaining the Contract Guidelines Table, together with the team’s Assistant General Counsel.
• Providing training as needed to SPGCI’s legal and business teams on SPGCI’s legal templates.
• Ensuring the execution of various legal projects to drive implementation.
• Legal research on emerging regulations and issues to support the lawyers in the CI Legal & Compliance Team.
• Managing legal tech systems such as CI’s CLM and eSignature, Microsoft tools such as SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, etc.
• Regularly updating the legal clause library in the CLM AI Tool and training and assisting CI lawyers in the use of the tool.
• Working with the legal operations specialists on the CLM tool transition and support.
• Regularly managing the integrity and accuracy of the information in the CLM Tool database and the CI Legal & Compliance SharePoint knowledge-management repository, and preparing regular legal update newsletters for the CI Legal & Compliance Team.
• Updating the contents and design of legal training decks for use by CI lawyers in training the business.
• Maintaining an updated and user-friendly Commodity Insights’ Product List.
• Managing and monitoring legal team general mailboxes and other matters as assigned by the Head of Legal, Strategy & Operations.

Eligibility Criteria

• Law degree.
• 4+ years of legal industry experience, either in-house or at a law firm practising law.
• Meticulous with excellent legal drafting skills and experience.
• Possesses sound legal knowledge and understanding.
• Experienced with CLM tools (including task automation workflows and document generation), contract management databases, and other information management tools.
• Possesses good technical skills and is highly proficient with Microsoft applications such as Word, Powerpoint, Excel and AI tools.
• Pro-active and has the ability to think logically outside the box in order to provide practical win-win solutions to the CI Legal & Compliance team and the business, which effectively protects S&P Global’s legal interests.
• Qualified as a lawyer in a common law jurisdiction.
• Strong interpersonal, organisational, verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple tasks, and work to tight deadlines.
• Team player who acts in the best interests of the Company and the CI Legal & Compliance team.

How to Apply?

Interested candidates can apply through the link given below this post.

Location

Gurugram.

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