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We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

Legal Contracts Manager

Rockwell Automation is the world's largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation; our strategy is to bring the Connected Enterprise to life. We understand and simplify our customers' complex production challenges, integrating control and information across the enterprise to help industrial companies and their people to be more productive and sustainable. We do this through great employees who can and want to make an impact.

We are hiring a full-time Legal Contracts Manager to join the Contracts & Negotiations team to support our business activities in India with the focus on complex solutions agreements that combine intelligent hardware, software and professional services, including digital transformation and software sales agreements, SaaS, cloud-enabled manufacturing and operations. The Contracts & Negotiations team forms part of the wider global legal team in the Office of the General Counsel.

You will have a sound background in commercial law with a focus on the pre-award phase of contract negotiation together with good drafting and contract analysis skills and experience.

You will work collaboratively across departments and sales by implementing our contracting process while valuing our customers, the, speed, integrity, and people.

You would:

• Lead the negotiation and drafting of solution, services, software and other sale agreements, subcontracts, and non-disclosure agreements, and master services and licensing agreements for industrial customers.
• Develop the negotiation plan and strategy and manage internal and external communications, facilitate escalations and approvals within the organization and address queries from our customers.
• Collaborate and partner with the Departments, Sales, Finance, different Legal functions and other teams.
• Be a trusted advisor to the company on contractual risks, rights, and remedies.
• Develop and accomplish training plans on company contracting processes.
• Network globally with a diverse and inclusive team of more than 20,000 Rockwell Automation employees.
• Grow through learning and development of skills.
• Improve departmental process improvements and project activities.
• Give our customers a valuable experience.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in law or business or related field.
• About 5+ years of experience in negotiating terms and conditions of sales or purchase contracts.
• Skills in drafting commercial transactions, including product sale, software licensing, provision of services and solutions, SaaS, consulting and professional services agreements.
• Excellent negotiator that can plan negotiations.
• Excellent English speaking, comprehension, and writing skills.
• build and manage relationships.
• And creative person with a focus on value-added service.
• Strategic focus and a code of ethics.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• negotiation experience with the manufacturing industry.
• Knowledge of contract law, tender process, data protection, information security, privacy, and the latest trends in cloud services are also a plus.

Benefits:

• The ability to collaborate with, learn from colleagues in a complex, global organization.
• We provide a dynamic working environment with a creative company, paired with a great compensation package, great benefits, and a supportive atmosphere where you can sharpen your talents with new challenges and development opportunities.
• Hybrid work-from-home and at a determined Rockwell Automation facility.
• Corporate Social Responsibility opportunities,
• Support from our 24/7 employee assistance program.

Will reporting to - Subregion Contract Manager

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

Primary work location: Mumbai, India.

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