Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

To support the Head, Legal, Group Commercial as a member of the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Group Commercial Legal Centre of Excellence based in Bangalore. The role will have a specific focus on supporting procurement and commercial contracts with vendors and other third parties across the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s global footprint.

• To manage the Group Commercial Legal centralized mailbox on all incoming matters for legal support, reviewing the request for completeness and following up with requesters / SCM for additional information wherever required and triaging the request to lawyers in the Commercial Legal Team following the guidelines.
• To draft, review and validate global procurement contracts (technology and non-technology) like NDAs, proof of concept agreements, SOWs, Order Forms, change orders, to ensure they meet the Group\xe2\x80\x99s third-party contract standards and applicable law.
• To assist with contractual queries from business stakeholders and supply chain in case of any ambiguity. Provide clarity on contract language by conducting contract review and research and provide analysis and recommendation accordingly.
• To assist the legal teams across the Bank to ensure appropriate overall matter management. Where external counsel is appointed, to manage the engagement and external legal costs.
• To provide stakeholders with accurate and timely information and advice regarding the status of contract matters.
• To keep up to date with relevant policies and procedures and applicable law.
• To assist with continuous improvement initiatives in relation to contract processes and workflow.
• To support on team administration tasks where required.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment].
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Commercial

• Pragmatic, creative, practical and solution-oriented.

Proactive

• Able to use initiative and ready to identify issues without being asked and provide advice accordingly.

Profile

• Able to work with various levels of management.

Flexible

• Able and willing to work long hours and, at short notice, travel to, and work in, challenging environments for periods of time (if required).

Team player

• Personable, responsible, helpful.

Organised

• Able to prioritise workload and manage conflicting priorities to meet deadlines. Strong attention to detail to highlight potential risks in contracts and errors.
• Reliable, tactful, discreet, diplomatic: able to work with board members, other senior staff and persons of different nationalities and from different cultures, have good judgment and strong decision-making skills.

Self-motivated

• Able to operate independently with minimal supervision.

Energetic

• Enthusiastic about the role, the function and the Group.
• Responsibility and perseverance.
• Highest professional standards.

Key Stakeholders

• Supply Chain Management
• Group Legal teams (including Technology Legal)
• Country Legal teams

Our Ideal Candidate

• Must be a qualified lawyer in a common law jurisdiction (solicitor, attorney or barrister)
• 1 - 3 of years of post qualification experience.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Good knowledge and understanding of commercial contract requirements in relation to technology and non-technology procurement matters
• Experience in contract legal support (whether through in-house or private practice) and business acumen
• Experience in reviewing contracts using contract templates and/or using contract guidance or playbooks

\xc2\xadAbout Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 years, we\'ve worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you\'re looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents. And we can\'t wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you\'ll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion. Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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