The Associate Director will provide strategic legal advice, oversee complex contract negotiations, and manage external counsel. They are also responsible for mentoring junior team members and ensuring proactive legal risk management across the organization.
Job Title:
Associate Director, Legal Counsel
Job Description
We're Concentrix. The intelligent transformation partner. Solution-focused. Tech-powered. Intelligence-fueled.
The global technology and services leader that powers the world’s best brands, today and into the future. We’re solution-focused, tech-powered, intelligence-fueled. With unique data and insights, deep industry expertise, and advanced technology solutions, we’re the intelligent transformation partner that powers a world that works, helping companies become refreshingly simple to work, interact, and transact with. We shape new game-changing careers in over 70 countries, attracting the best talent.
We are seeking a highly experienced and commercially minded legal leader to join Concentrix as a senior member of our global legal team. This is a strategic role for an accomplished legal professional who thrives in a fast-paced, complex, and client-centric environment, and who can balance strong legal judgment with practical business solutions. The ideal candidate will be a trusted advisor to senior business leaders, bringing a deep understanding of commercial transactions, risk management, regulatory considerations, and global business operations.
This role requires an individual who can confidently navigate high-value, complex commercial negotiations while building strong partnerships across the organization. You will be expected to provide pragmatic guidance that enables business growth, protects the company’s interests, and supports our continued transformation as a technology-enabled global services leader. Success in this role requires exceptional stakeholder management skills, sound business acumen, and the ability to influence outcomes at the executive level.
Responsibilities
- Works closely with the business and other stakeholders to provide strategic legal advice using broad expertise or unique knowledge, oversee contract negotiations and manage external counsel
- Key role in mentoring mid-level counsel and junior team members; aligning legal principles and strategies with corporate objectives; may coordinate contracting activities of other personnel
- Extensive experience in commercial agreement review and high-stakes negotiations
- Able to organise and lead commercial agreement reviews
- Able to lead contract negotiations with external clients
- Ensuring proactive legal risk management across the organisation
- Applies company policies and procedures to draft, analyse and redline complex and/or transformational commercial agreements with Concentrix clients by recognizing:
- the interdependencies between Concentrix and client obligations
- Concentrix’s ability to comply with such terms
- their effect on Concentrix profitability
- In accordance with company policies and procedures, able to suggest creative ways to resolve a wide range of contractual issues
- Able to collaborate effectively with senior Legal Department personnel, Concentrix Sales and Account Managers and other internal stakeholders
- Responsible for counselling internal business partners regarding contractual terms
- Ability to prioritise (and support colleagues’ prioritisation) in a fast-paced environment. Ability to quickly refocus and execute short-term priorities in response to the demands of the business
- Frequently advises others on complex matters
- Performs additional legal assignments and projects as may be required
- Works independently with limited or no guidance and adapts style and uses persuasion in delivering messages that relate to contractual issues
- Recognises internal or external business challenges and/or regulatory issues and recommends solutions/best practices or service improvements.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Laws (L.LB) or Juris Doctor (J.D.) or equivalent from a recognised university
- Complete applicable MCLE/CPD requirements in respective jurisdiction to maintain practicing status
- At least 10 years of specialized legal experience
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe and basic document sharing management (e.g. Sharepoint)
- Display leadership qualities in strategy and execution.
- Expert knowledge of national and international law
- Proficient in developing and executing corporate strategy
- Exceptional negotiation and advocacy skills
- Strong business acumen and decision-making abilities
- Skilled in navigating complex regulatory environments
- Adopt technology and embrace integration to enhance legal efficiency
- Strategic thinker with a focus on innovation and change
Location:
Italy - Work at Home
Language Requirements:
Time Type:
Full time