Job Description

When you join VerizonYou want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.What You'll Be Doing:
In this role, you will be part of the Verizon Global Legal Services team, an innovative legal initiative. You will work closely with lawyers, business partners, contract-management members, and other stakeholders with international and US-based teams and manage a team of lawyers in India. Your responsibilities will include negotiating contracts, drafting transactional documents, contract management, performing data privacy impact assessments, and contributing to other legal practice areas and subject-matter domains based on your demonstrated abilities and experience. Your specific duties will include:

• Managing projects for various legal practice areas, including Business, Consumer, Global Services, Compliance & Ethics, Sourcing, Privacy, Real Estate, Network & Technology, among others
• Leading, managing and guiding a team of lawyers supporting these areas, contract management and others.
• Enabling business partners and stakeholders by way of drafting, reviewing, negotiation, and finalization of agreements.
• Performing second level review for complex and critical engagements
• Negotiating and finalizing agreements in accordance with Verizon's requirements, policies and guidelines.
• Preparing engagement SOPs, training, and related documents.
• Ensuring adherence to expected turnaround times, service level agreements and requirements.
• Using readily available as well as emerging legal and project management technology to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Assisting the team in handling queries from and disagreements with stakeholders and other parties Advising business partners on contract related queries and issues.
• Identifying potential risks and making recommendations to business partners and other lawyers.
• Optimizing and improving legal processes to drive efficiency.
• Taking complete ownership during the knowledge transfer phase for engagements.
• Driving change and continuous improvement

What We're Looking For:
You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Knowledge of policies, standards, and processes for managing and administering contracts, with the ability to use applicable processes and practices for managing a variety of contractual agreements.
• Knowledge of processes, tools, and techniques for assessing and controlling an organization's exposure to risks of various kinds, with the ability to apply this knowledge appropriately to diverse situations.
• Experience in relevant Legal work and people management experience.
• Good understanding of contract and other related laws.
• Strong negotiation acumen.
• Prudent decision-making skills and excellent legal judgment.
• Ability to balance business and contract goals against legal, business, policy and reputational risks and make sound decisions to take appropriate risks.
• Proficiency in Google Workspace and Microsoft Office.
• Ability to drive and guide a team to deliver complex and time-sensitive processes.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail to identify root cause and provide innovative technology driven solutions.
• Team player with an ability to work with cross-functional teams

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Technical acumen in Legal tools, AI, and other emerging technologies
• Familiarity with common project management approaches such as PMP or the Agile Framework.
• Experience in global or U.S. agreements
• Bachelor's or Master's in Law

Time Zone Management:
The candidate should be willing to work from 3:30 PM to 0.30 AM or 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM IST.Where you'll be working In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.Scheduled Weekly Hours 40Equal Employment OpportunityVerizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.

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