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Job Post: Vacancy for Legal Associate at Maersk, Mumbai

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Key responsibilities:

  • Be responsible for assisting in contract development, maintenance, tracking, analysis, review, compliance and administration activities;
  • Provide risk assessment and analysis of non-standard clauses; primary focus on straightforward contracts and customer requests (NDAs, RFPs, RFIs) as well as providing team support for reporting
  • Collect feedback and interact with commercial teams and customer on contract clauses;
  • Interact with Central Legal team on clause risk assessment;
  • Ensure correct archiving and storage of documents, contracts, corporate documents and official documents in the contract management or other internal tools;
  • Develop ‘eye to eye’ relationship and engagement with internal stakeholders and implement process capability.
  • Provide consistent and predictable high-quality service to business partners and end customers
  • This is a junior role with a focus on development to take on more responsibility in future

We are looking for:

  • Bachelor of Law. Master of Law a plus.
  • Experience and knowledge within shipping or international trade an advantage
  • Contract management and process management experience preferred
  • The candidate has 1-3 years of experience from an in-house function in an internationally oriented law firm or international corporation with an experience in dealing (drafting, reviewing, negotiating and finalizing) with agreements.
  • Given high stakeholder interaction excellent English skills both oral as well as written are required and proven capability in MS Office is expected
  • Able to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Flexible and business supportive mind-set
  • A strong communicator equally capable of engaging with stakeholders and colleagues alike.
  • An ability to delivery independently and timely.
  • Ensure timely delivery and qualitative review of contracts
  • A natural ability to handle a lot on the plate is required with an eye for details.
  • Ability to build and create credibility and perseverance in negotiations.
  • Good at structured, process-oriented responsibilities

Last application date: 30/4/2021

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