Job Description

About Us

Olam International is a leading food and agri-business supplying food, ingredients, feed and fibre to over 19,800 customers worldwide. Our value chain spans over 60 countries and includes farming, processing and distribution operations, as well as a sourcing network of 4.8 million farmers. Through our purpose to \'Re-imagine Global Agriculture and Food Systems\', Olam aims to address the many challenges involved in meeting the needs of a growing global population, while achieving positive impact for farming communities, our planet and all our stakeholders. Headquartered and listed in Singapore, Olam currently ranks among the top 30 largest primary listed companies in terms of market capitalisation on SGX-ST.

Olam Information Services (OISL) is a captive subsidiary of Olam International, Singapore offering IT Services & Global Business Services across its operations in 65 countries in Asia, Africa, EU & Americas. In Chennai, we currently have onboard more than 1000 highly motivated employees. Olam Digital has received International Innovation Award 2019 for Best Services and Solutions.

Olam Global Business Services (OGBS) is a captive unit that offers End to End business process and analytics solutions. OGBS currently offers its solutions in 6 Platforms: Finance, Supply Chain, People services, Risk & Market Compliance, Big Data Analytics and Business Intelligence. At this moment, OGBS is located in City of Chennai, India and provides its services to over 20 countries. Olam GBS has received Best Shared Services in India Award - 2019, by Shared Services Forum and Asia\'s No.1 Shared Services in Process Improvement and Value Creation, 2019 by Shared Services and Outsourcing Network Forum.

Job Summary

A prospective candidate will provide auxiliary support in reviewing standard and bespoke commercial contracts, handling basic IP and trademark administration queries and other overflow work referred to you from the global legal team in support of multiple business units and functions across the Olam group. The role is expected to grow as you work with the Senior Legal Operations Manager and Olam lawyers to provide strategic input into designing processes and controls to.

• Triage legal work
• Design contract playbooks
• Refine and maintain in-house standardised templates
• Build processes and checklists to help triage
• Use appropriate legal tech to manage the operational activities
• Provide initial/first support to standard queries including to review contracts, and
• Register new trademarks or handling an IP infringement.

Assisting logging and tracking productivity in Olam\'s matter management system on behalf of members of the global legal team.

• Document review workflow development and planning, having regard to any intragroup confidentiality and information barrier requirements
• First-responder to a select number of tasks to be designed together with the legal team, and triaging requests for further work by the appropriate lawyer within Olam
• Helping design controls, processes and ways of working in a way which respects business requirements and delivers on operational excellence
• Communication with key project stakeholders in the global legal team and Legal Operations Unit
• Assisting in project measurement and reporting
• First line of quality assurance of certain contract drafts and markups for delivery to members of the legal team and/or directly to the businesses and functions
• Delivery of document review tasks and projects on time
• Work collaboratively with other teams, in relation to their various document review, contract standardisation and other process workflow requirements
• Track all contract review work and certain other workflows for members of the legal team, BU and Functions including the time involved in handling related work
• Ensure proactive and effective communication and collaboration between Legal, BUs and Function and Legal Business Services Team to improve efficiency
• Develop a deep understanding of document review workflows including application of Technology Assisted Review (TAR) features
• Develop and oversee review workflows within document sharing platforms and contract analytics tools
• Create a dashboard and reporting mechanisms drawing from new and existing matter management systems and processes
• Provide operational support of the managed document review business including responding to client requests for information and collation of MI for reporting to leadership
• Identify and facilitate means for continuous improvement across document review services
• Respond to legal team, BU and Function inquires in a timely manner.

Profile Description

• Law degree and qualified lawyer (ideally in a common law jurisdiction) with 10 to 14 years\' experience
• 3+ years managing document review, trademark registration/infringement processes or legal operations projects of varying size
• Experience with use of Technology Assisted Review (TAR) in document review projects
• Experience with contract analytics tools and ability to offer suggestions on their potential use, implementation and adoption at Olam
• Strong multi-tasking skills & excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organisational skills including ability to manage time and prioritise tasks effectively
• Excellent and proactive communicator who can perform in a client-facing role
• Ability to work both effectively as part of a team and independently in a demanding, fast-paced environment
• Flexible with working hours; and demonstrated logical and pragmatic approach to problem solving.

Olam is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, nationality, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants are requested to complete all required steps in the application process including providing a resume/CV in order to be considered for open roles.

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