Senior Legal Advisor

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The Senior Legal Advisor is an advanced subject matter expert in one or more functional areas or legal disciplines within a Global or Regional business area.

The Senior Legal Advisor is an individual contributor role and has the ability to work on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.

This role may lead or participate in an engagement or provide advice and support to management and/or other legal colleagues in complex undertakings.

This role may also help with the development and/or implementation of policies, programs and other related materials.

Key responsibilities:

• Provides legal advice and support to Management, business and other leaders on engagements, transactions, issues and challenges relating to the specified functional area or legal discipline.
• Takes the lead in the above engagements and transactions with external parties including regulators, or when assigned.
• Provides functional area or legal discipline expertise and counsel to other legal practitioners.
• Helps to develop and implement initiatives, programs and tools to enhance the level of proficiency of stakeholders including other legal practitioners in the same functional area/legal discipline, and to share know-how.
• Contributes to the development, implementation and update of related policies, systems and processes working with other members of the internal legal community and other stakeholders.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders to optimize legal risk management within the functional area or legal discipline.
• Provides legal support in commercial and legal negotiations.
• Works closely with other departments or functions to contribute to the revision of and advise on the development of governance, business and operations.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Substantial skillsets and experience within a specific functional area or legal discipline, in organizations of similar scale and complexity.
• Good insights and know-how to optimize risk management within the specific functional area or legal discipline.
• Good interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain strong stakeholder relationships.
• Strong commercial acumen and skilled at providing advice and legal solutions carrying significant impact.
• Proactive approach with strong planning and organizing skills.
• Ability to influence and negotiate with a good commercial understanding.
• Ability to engage with a variety of stakeholders and colleagues at all levels.
• Ability to work in high-pressure situations.
• Strong people skills and excellent work ethic.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Law.
• May carry specialist qualifications or certifications in specific functional area(s) or legal discipline(s).

Required experience:

• Advanced demonstrated experience in a similar role within a related environment.
• Advanced demonstrated experience advising and providing solutions to highly complex and legal-technical issues and challenges.
• Advanced demonstrated experienced in the development of related programs, policies, frameworks and structures to manage the specific functional area or legal discipline at the required scale and complexity.
• Advanced experience working with Management and other internal / external stakeholders.

Workplace type:

On-site Working

About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services.  Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

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