Legal Risk and Contract Manager

KEY PURPOSE OF THE JOB (Position Summary) :

• Manage day to day activities as required by the Legal Team;
• Compliance management – Maintain, monitor and analyzes statutory and regulatory compliance levels across all group hospitals;
• Assist in developing, updating, and communicating compliance policies and procedures to employees and stakeholders, maintain a compliance risk assessment process to identify and address potential areas of non-compliance;
• Assist in conducting regular internal audits at the hospital locations to assess compliance with established policies and procedures;
• Track and analyze compliance metrics, generating reports for management on compliance status and areas for improvement;
• Maintain accurate and organized records of compliance activities, findings, and corrective actions;
• Collaborate with legal and regulatory experts to ensure accurate and comprehensive reporting;
• Assist in analyzing compliance risks and potential areas of vulnerability;
• develop and implement strategies to mitigate these risks;
• Advise day to day operations teams on compliance-related risks and provide recommendations for risk mitigation;
• Litigation management – Drafting and vetting notices, pleadings and submissions for medico-legal and commercial litigation. Maintaining a tracker of all litigations, analyzing and reporting trends and insights for litigation prevention;
• Active management of medico legal cases by coordinating with the medical teams and the advocates;
• Assist in building good relations with the advocates, developing a network of advocates throughout India and aiding them in cases;
• Drafting notices, vetting notices, responding / handling statutory notices, regulatory notices and different complaints by our patrons;
• Active management of the litigation tool, coordinating with different teams in enhancing the feature of the tool, managing notice through the tool;
• Monitoring of the cases by coordinating with both internal and external stake holders;
• Draft recovery notice and actively participate in recovery of dues;
• Advice the medical teams on various medico legal issue;
• Analyze the legal risk and cost to the company and advised the management and implement strategy to mitigate the risk;
• Conduct medico legal seminars to educate the internal stake holders with the current laws;
• Contract management – Drafting, vetting and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements, Master Services Agreements, Service Agreement, Statement of Work, Change Requests, NDA and other documents including service agreements, sub-contracts;
• Maintaining, filing, tracking, and managing the lifecycle of the contracts;
• Preparing guidelines, SOP`s, dashboard, reports, workflow, strategic complex transactions, including contract summarization, obligation assessment, tracking renewals and necessary support during audits;
• Providing advice to internal stakeholders on various contractual positions and corporate policies by assessing the risk and presenting clear recommendations and mitigations;
• Real Estate management – Assisting maintaining the real estate profile of the Group Companies, conducting title due diligence on proposed real estate acquisitions, maintaining trackers and ensure timely renewals of leases;
• maintain cordial relationship with Lessors, drafting LOIs, Leases, Sale documents and processing their registration;
• IPR management – Manage the IPR portfolio of the Group Companies, monitor violations of the Company’s Intellectual Property, apply for new Trademarks and Patents, respond to regulatory notices and communications regarding IP;

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