Designation: Senior Contracts Lead
Function: Legal — Office of the General Counsel
Division: Contract Management
Reports to: Group General Counsel & Partner
Direct reports: Contract Management team
Location: Mumbai — Dadar Office
Role: To lead the full lifecycle of the group’s commercial contracting — from drafting, review and negotiation, through risk and obligation management, to renewal and expiry — while building the team, processes, templates and technology that allow contracting to scale safely and efficiently alongside the firm’s growth.
Key Responsibilities
01 Contract Drafting, Review & Negotiation
- Lead the drafting, review and negotiation of the full spectrum of client-facing agreements, including client service engagement letters, master service agreements and statements of work, consultancy contracts, investment banking mandates, referral and reseller agreements, joint business and joint venture agreements, and trademark and licensing agreements.
- Lead the drafting, review and negotiation of vendor, procurement and partner agreements,



including Saa S and subscription contracts, end-user licence agreements, sub-contracts, loan and secondment staffing agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and supplier master agreements.
- Draft bespoke agreements from first principles where no template exists, balancing legal protection with commercial pragmatism and speed to signature.
- Act as senior negotiator on complex, high-value or sensitive contracts, and as the escalation point for the team on contentious terms.
02 Contract Risk Management
- Identify, assess and clearly articulate the legal, commercial, financial, data-protection and regulatory risks embedded in client and vendor contracts, and recommend practical mitigations.
- Develop and maintain a contract risk framework — risk-rating criteria, fall-back positions, approval thresholds and escalation matrices — calibrated to the group’s risk appetite and to the regulatory profile of each entity.
- Advise on

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