Assistant Legal Counsel - Bengaluru, India - GSK

GSK

Verified Company

Bengaluru, India

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Deepika Kaur

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Description

Site Name:
Bengaluru Luxor North Tower

Posted Date:
Jun

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 organisation where people can thrive.

Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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.

Legal Contracting Network (LCN) is a new, cutting-edge Legal group located in Asia, Europe and the US, bringing together the responsibilities and management of contracting, including drafting and front-end negotiation of contracts.

The Assistant Legal Counsel will deliver effective and efficient legal support as a core member of the LCN team primarily responsible for managing GSK's external legal spend to ensure competitive fees while maintaining continued excellent legal representation.

The Assistant Legal Counsel will collaborate and work closely with Global External Legal Relations Team (GELRT).

By joining our dedicated team of lawyers, paralegals and contracting specialists, you will become part of a world-class contracting support function at our new 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 LCN Delivery Team, you will be accountable for providing quality legal support on a global basis for various GSK stakeholders

Responsibilities include:

Lead negotiations and draft engagement letters with law firms and legal vendors relating to valuebased fee arrangements and other Alternative Fee Arrangements ("AFAs").
Partner with GSK inhouse counsel to define legal matter fee assumptions and scope of work, working to drive consistency and predictability across matters.
Prepare presentations and reports related to GSK's external legal spend and GELRT efforts to reduce same for senior legal and finance management.
Act as a primary point of contact for legal practice group heads and inhouse counsel to facilitate the engagement of outside counsel.
Drive compliance with GELRT policies, including increasing savings, the portion of external legal spend under AFAs, and strengthening relationship with PLP firms.
Provide ongoing management of external legal spend and proactively monitor spend in an effort to identify AFA opportunities.
In conjunction with inhouse counsel, track and review progress of tasks and assumptions over the course of a matter (periodically and at conclusion of matter) to assess appropriateness of fees/fee agreement.
Help administer and develop GSK's premier legal partner (PLP) program, including meeting with outside counsel relationship partners to discuss their performance, participation in cost savings initiatives, and diversity initiatives.
Ensure adherence to GSK's engagement and billing terms.
Calculate, report, and present external legal spend savings achieved from various cost savings initiatives.
Act as a point of contact for inhouse counsel and outside counsel and thirdparty legal service providers for significant questions or issues (e.g. rate disputes, rate increase requests, etc.)

in order to: 1) achieve consistency of approach, 2) ensure savings and promote "partnership" with outside services providers, and 3) ensure that GSK in-house counsel can focus on the substance of the matters they manage.

Enhance GSK's inclusion and diversity initiatives as it relates to GSK's engagement of outside counsel, including opportunities to increase spend with underrepresented minority law firms or lawyers.
Being aware of departmental guidance on best practices, processes, templates, clauses and playbooks.
Communicates directly with business clients and participate in general business meetings, teams and projects as required to provide timely, effective legal advice.
Other duties as assigned.

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

Qualified lawyer with minimum 5 to 7 years' experience in a law firm and/or inhouse, including experience in negotiating and onboarding multiple law firms across jurisdictions.
Adept with using various tools for onboarding and tracking external law firms.