Senior Manager - Legal

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What you'll do...

Job Summary

The Senior Manager, Legal (GTS India) will support Walmart Global Tech Services by providing strategic legal advisory and end-to-end contracting support across technology, procurement, and business functions.

This role will partner closely with global stakeholders to enable business priorities while ensuring robust legal governance, proactive risk mitigation, and strict adherence to ethics, compliance, and regulatory standards.

The role will also drive legal operations excellence, standardisation, and scalable processes to support a high-volume, global contracting environment, while reinforcing a strong culture of integrity and ethical decision-making across all engagements.

About the Team

The GTS Legal team supports enterprise technology, procurement, and digital transformation initiatives globally. The team plays a critical role in enabling secure, compliant, and scalable business operations by managing legal risks, strengthening governance frameworks, and upholding the highest standards of ethics and compliance while partnering with cross-functional stakeholders across markets.

What You’ll Do

1. Legal Advisory & Business Partnership

• Act as a trusted legal advisor to GTS stakeholders across technology, sourcing, and business teams

• Provide guidance on legal, regulatory, risk, and ethics & compliance considerations related to technology and commercial transactions

• Interpret legal frameworks and deliver pragmatic, business-aligned solutions while ensuring alignment with organisational values and ethical standards

2. Technology & Commercial Contracting

• Lead drafting, review, and negotiation of complex technology and commercial contracts (SaaS, cloud, licensing, NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, vendor agreements)

• Ensure all contracts adhere to company policies, ethical standards, and compliance requirements, including anti-corruption and fair business practices

• Support high-value, high-risk contracting engagements with global stakeholders

• Standardise contracting processes through playbooks, templates, and clause libraries, embedding compliance and ethical safeguards

3. Risk, Compliance, Ethics & Governance

• Identify, assess, and mitigate legal and regulatory risks across global technology operations

• Ensure adherence to data privacy, cybersecurity, anti-corruption laws, and global compliance frameworks

• Partner closely with Ethics & Compliance, Internal Audit, and Investigations teams on governance reviews, policy enforcement, and issue resolution

• Champion a culture of integrity and ethical conduct, proactively advising stakeholders on risk avoidance and responsible decision-making

• Support internal investigations, whistleblower matters, and compliance reviews as required

4. Legal Operations & Transformation

• Drive legal ops maturity through adoption of CLM tools, automation, and streamlined workflows

• Embed compliance checkpoints, audit trails, and ethical controls within contracting and legal processes

• Build scalable frameworks to improve turnaround time, efficiency, and service quality

• Develop dashboards and reporting for contract risk, cycle time, and compliance and ethics metrics

5. Stakeholder & Global Collaboration

• Collaborate with global legal teams, business leaders, sourcing/procurement, and external counsel

• Partner with global Ethics & Compliance teams to ensure consistent application of standards across geographies

• Manage cross-border legal matters and ensure alignment with global regulatory and ethical standards

• Lead and contribute to legal and compliance transformation initiatives within GTS

What You’ll Bring

• 12–15+ years of experience in legal, with strong focus on technology and commercial contracting

• Proven expertise in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex technology agreements (SaaS, cloud, IT services, licensing)

• Strong understanding of global regulatory frameworks including ethics, compliance, data privacy, and anti-corruption laws

• Demonstrated experience working closely with compliance, audit, and risk teams

• Experience working in global capability centres / shared services / multinational environments

• Exposure to legal operations, CLM platforms, and process transformation initiatives

• Strong stakeholder management with ability to influence senior business leaders

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and risk assessment skills with a high degree of integrity and ethical judgement

Preferred Qualifications

• LLB / LLM from a recognised institution

• Experience in technology, retail, e-commerce, or digital transformation ecosystems

• Familiarity with GDPR, IT Act, cross-border data transfer regulations

• Prior experience in high-volume contracting COEs

• Exposure to ethics & compliance programmes, investigations, or governance frameworks

Leadership Expectations

• Demonstrates strong business acumen and strategic thinking

• Operates with a risk-intelligent, ethics-first, and compliance-driven mindset

• Drives collaboration across global teams and influences stakeholders

• Champions integrity, accountability, and ethical decision-making in all business interactions

• Acts as a role model for compliance culture and responsible business conduct

• Leads process excellence, governance rigor, and continuous improvement initiatives

About Walmart Global Tech
Imagine working in an environment where one line of code can make life easier for hundreds of millions of people.  That’s what we do at Walmart Global Tech. We’re a team of software engineers, data scientists, cybersecurity expert's and service professionals within the world’s leading retailer who make an epic impact and are at the forefront of the next retail disruption. People are why we innovate, and people power our innovations. We are people-led and tech-empowered.

We train our team in the skillsets of the future and bring in experts like you to help us grow. We have roles for those chasing their first opportunity as well as those looking for the opportunity that will define their career. Here, you can kickstart a great career in tech, gain new skills and experience for virtually every industry, or leverage your expertise to innovate at scale, impact millions and reimagine the future of retail.

Flexible, hybrid work
We use a hybrid way of working with primary in office presence coupled with an optimal mix of virtual presence. We use our campuses to collaborate and be together in person, as business needs require and for development and networking opportunities. This approach helps us make quicker decisions, remove location barriers across our global team, be more flexible in our personal lives.

Benefits

Beyond our great compensation package, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include a host of best-in-class benefits maternity and parental leave, PTO, health benefits, and much more.

Belonging

We aim to create a culture where every associate feels valued for who they are, rooted in respect for the individual. Our goal is to foster a sense of belonging, to create opportunities for all our associates, customers and suppliers, and to be a Walmart for everyone.

At Walmart, our vision is "everyone included." By fostering a workplace culture where everyone is—and feels—included, everyone wins. Our associates and customers reflect the makeup of all 19 countries where we operate. By making Walmart a welcoming place where all people feel like they belong, we’re able to engage associates, strengthen our business, improve our ability to serve customers, and support the communities where we operate.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Walmart, Inc., is an Equal Opportunities Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Minimum Qualifications:Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Sciences, Business or related field OR 5 years experience in litigation support, computer sciences or related field.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location...

Building 10 (sez), Cessna Business Park, Kadubeesanahalli Village, Varthur Hobli , India