Job Title:  Manager | Legal Business Service | Across Locations | Business Tax

Manager | Tax and regulatory

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India’s impact on the global economy has increased at an exponential rate and Deloitte presents an opportunity to unleash and realise your potential amongst cutting edge leaders, and organisations shaping the future of the region, and indeed, the world beyond.

At Deloitte, your whole self to work, every day. Combine that with our drive to propel with purpose and you have the perfect playground to collaborate, innovate, grow, and make an impact that matters.

The team

Tax is about much more than just the numbers. It’s about attesting to accomplishments and challenges and helping to assure strong foundations for future aspirations. Deloitte exemplifies what, how, and why of change so you’re always ready to act ahead. Learn more about our Tax Practice.

Your work profile

As a Manager in our Global Business Tax Team you’ll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations: -

Job Description Summary

To perform third party supplier legal drafting and contracting work. This role will focus on reviewing, drafting and negotiating medium to high complexity procurement contracts.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Efficiently reviews, drafts, and negotiates contracts from a commercial perspective in collaboration with the Office of General Counsel.
• Interprets and educates key stakeholders about commercial and legal requirements, obligations, and risk exposures to key stakeholders in support of the negotiation process.
• Ability to communicate contract terms concisely in plain meaning to business units and partners, including requirements, obligations, and risk exposures.
• Identifies areas of risk, including information security, intellectual property infringement, financial and privacy exposure to be reviewed by third party stakeholders (such as InfoSec, Insurance, and Privacy).
• Follows documented contracting processes and procedures, including engaging key stakeholders and leveraging technical understanding of the contracting process.
• Agility to work efficiently to ensure contracts are timely negotiated and executed accurately.
• Follows quality control processes and maintains close working business relationship with  commercial legal counsel and subject matter experts.
• Ability to understand business groups requirements and ensures contract language meets requirements.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience required.
• Law Degree / J.D. required.
• Minimum of 5-7 years' experience in a fast-paced commercial contracting environment, including negotiating legal terms of contracts.
• Strong foundational and technical understanding of contractual terms required.
• Ability to lead commercial contract negotiations.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong analytical, drafting, and communication skills.
• Excellent client service and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate closely with key stakeholders from different disciplines, and within a team.

Location and way of working

·       Base location: All locations

·       Hybrid is our default way of working. Each domain has customised the hybrid approach to their unique needs.

Your role as a Manager

We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.

In addition to living our purpose, Manager across our organization must strive to be:

·       Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation

·       Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose

·       Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity

·       Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future

·       Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders

·       Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions

·       Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen

·       Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities

·       Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization

·       Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities

·       Engagement Management /Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for the success of engagement(s)

·       Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience

·       Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost

integrity and precision

·       Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and

complex problems

·       Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for

·       Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviours and attitudes to become more inclusive. 

How you’ll grow

Connect for impact

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Empower to lead

You can be a leader irrespective of your career level. Our colleagues are characterised by their ability to inspire, support, and provide opportunities for people to deliver their best and grow both as professionals

and human beings. Know more about Deloitte and our One Young World partnership.

Inclusion for all

At Deloitte, people are valued and respected for who they are and are trusted to add value to their clients, teams and communities in a way that reflects their own unique capabilities. Know more about everyday steps that you can take to be more inclusive. At Deloitte, we believe in the unique skills, attitude and potential each and every one of us brings to the table to make an impact that matters.