Experience

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  Provincial Health Services Authority

  • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Senior Contracts Advisor

    • Apr 2021 - Present
    • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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  Deloitte India (Offices of the US)

  • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Risk Manager

    • Jan 2019 - Feb 2021
    • Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    Manage negotiations and administration of professional consulting services contracts in the Life Sciences and Healthcare Industry.

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  Cognizant

  • Senior Legal Associate

    • Jul 2018 - Jan 2019

  • Legal Associate

    • Nov 2016 - Jun 2018

    Core member of CTS legal Department - In-house Contract and Risk Management team• Contract drafting, review/vetting -Identifying risks and key legal terms & conditions in contracts• Create and manage standard contract templates to facilitate Authoring• Advice business teams on any potential risks. Identify and assess threats and mitigate them by risk evaluation, which involves comparing estimated risks with criteria established by CTS such as costs, legal requirements, financial requirements, operational requirements to reduce cost• Analyzing and abstraction of business critical information on specific tasks w.r.t high profile clients of our customers and ensuring contract compliance• Contract Change tracking and managing• Working as a subject matter expert in the contracts team and hand-hold/train other team members on various contractual issues• Conduct Quality Assurance/review the work prepared by other team members• Improvising the Contract Lifecycle and Risk Management Process by suggesting and contributing towards establishing new sub-process • Assisting in developing the extraction strategy, risk guidelines for MSAs and SOWs (with varied pricing models)• Conduct training and clarification session for the team as required • Assisting in establishing SOW review and risk mitigation process• Contributing towards internal process stabilization and tool enhancements with respect to not just the extraction strategy but also sourcing of documents from various available sources.

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  Oracle India Pvt. Ltd

  • Bangalore Area, India

  • Contract(deal) Specialist

    • Jul 2015 - Nov 2016
    • Bangalore Area, India

    • Drafting, reviewing and negotiating standard contracts both on Oracle paper as well as on customer paper• Assess the risks associated with proposals and advise business team on the contractual impact. If required, advice the business team with appropriate alternative language to mitigate/minimize the risks involved• Assist sales in identifying and correcting language approval issues for standard options and the relevant approval paths• Adhere to the agreed rules of engagement between Oracle and Deal Management• Provide contract support beyond the boundaries of a region or country• Handling highly complex and multi-million dollar transactions• Coordinate with business team to understand the transaction and advise them on appropriate business approvals required to assume a potential risk in the contract• Review customer requested revisions during negotiation of contracts and advise business team on the contractual implication of the proposed revision. If business team requests, propose alternatives position to reduce risk• Anticipating problems and initiating actions to ensure customer orders are processed efficiently.Preparing contract status reports.• Coordinate with various other internal stakeholders to finalize the contract• Get the contract signed and route it to the funding team• Review contract drafts prior to release• Work on specialized projects on various initiatives on contract management• Ensure all contract terms have been appropriately approved and reflect all negotiated commitments Worked on RFPs, Master Service Agreement, Information Technology Agreement, Software LicenseAgreement, Alliance Agreement, NDA, SOW, Commercial Contracts, SLA, Consulting Agreements,Endorsement Agreements

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  Holla Advocaten

  • Legal Intern

    • May 2013 - May 2013

    • To learn and understand techniques of litigation • Drafting applications • Detailed research work on various statues • Understanding the legal problems arising from time to time in litigation.

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  Karnataka Human Rights Commission

  • Bangalore

  • Legal Intern

    • May 2012 - May 2012
    • Bangalore

    • To understand the role and responsibility of KSHRC.• To understand the practical working of various departments of the organization.• To study corruption as the catalyst for violation of human rights.

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  tata marcopolo motors ltd

  • Dharward, Karnataka, India

  • Human Resources Internship

    • Dec 2010 - Jan 2011
    • Dharward, Karnataka, India

    • To understand and study the growing rate of absenteeism among the blue collar employees in the factory.• To study the Effect of Absenteeism on Employees.• To provide Suggestions, Guidelines / Strategies in order to curb the absenteeism.

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  Cadbury India ltd

  • Management Internship

    • Jun 2010 - Jun 2010

    • Learn industrial interface.• To understand the practical working of various departments of the organization.• Understand the way department’s functions differently and at the same time collectively.• Recommended changes in their production department in reference to waste management.