Job Description

Site Name: Bengaluru Luxor North Tower
Posted Date: Jun 13 2023
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 \xe2\x80\x93 our vision is to run Legal like a business for the business. We focus on delivering excellent advice to achieve GSK\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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 value-based fee arrangements and other Alternative Fee Arrangements (\xe2\x80\x9cAFAs\xe2\x80\x9d).
• Partner with GSK in-house 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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 in-house 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 in-house 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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 in-house counsel and outside counsel and third-party 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 \xe2\x80\x9cpartnership\xe2\x80\x9d with outside services providers, and 3) ensure that GSK in-house counsel can focus on the substance of the matters they manage.
• Enhance GSK\xe2\x80\x99s inclusion and diversity initiatives as it relates to GSK\xe2\x80\x99s engagement of outside counsel, including opportunities to increase spend with under-represented 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\xe2\x80\x99 experience in a law firm and/or in-house, including experience in negotiating and onboarding multiple law firms across jurisdictions.
• Adept with using various tools for onboarding and tracking external law firms.
• Knowledge of the rules of professional conduct governing client-lawyer relationship including conflicts, counsel engagement, and fee structures. Basic knowledge of law firm management structure.
• Experience with Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience in finance/business reporting preferred.
• Willingness to work flexible hours as this position supports global business in different geographies.

Why GSK? Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture. These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Operating at pace and being agile to systems and processes.
• Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focus on what matters, execution.
• Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.
• Demonstrating leadership qualities and good soft skills needed to work in a fast paced environment.
• Building strong relationships and collaboration with the team members and senior stakeholders.

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GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose \xe2\x80\x93 to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together \xe2\x80\x93 so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns \xe2\x80\x93 as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030. Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it\xe2\x80\x99s also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We\xe2\x80\x99re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce. Important notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies GSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK\'s commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. It has come to our attention that the names of GlaxoSmithKline or GSK or our group companies are being used in connection with bogus job advertisements or through unsolicited emails asking candidates to make some payments for recruitment opportunities and interview. Please be advised that such advertisements and emails are not connected with the GlaxoSmithKline group in any way. GlaxoSmithKline does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. Please do not make payments to any individuals / entities in connection with recruitment with any GlaxoSmithKline (or GSK) group company at any worldwide location. Even if they claim that the money is refundable. If you come across unsolicited email from email addresses not ending in gsk.com or job advertisements which state that you should contact an email address that does not end in \xe2\x80\x9cgsk.com\xe2\x80\x9d, you should disregard the same and inform us by emailing askus@gsk.com, so that we can confirm to you if the job is genuine.