SHAYESTA SAJJAD MEVEGAR
Pune
Summary
Detail-oriented Procurement Contracts professional with over 6 years of experience supporting global stakeholders. Expertise in drafting, redlining, and negotiating various commercial agreements, performing risk assessments, and ensuring contract quality through FLR/QC review. Collaborative partner to Legal, Finance, Facilities, and InfoSec, with practical knowledge of CLM and procurement tools including Coupa, Ironclad, ServiceNow, and Icertis.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Assistant Manager, Procurement Contracts
Zscaler Softech India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2024 - Current
- Support global Workplace/Facilities contracting (leases, office/service agreements, memberships) including renewals and timely execution with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements (lease/workplace, consulting, marketing sponsorship, DPAs/NDAs) across NA/EMEA/APAC.
- Perform contract risk assessment and redlining aligned to procurement + legal standards; drive resolution of key terms (SLAs, privacy, liability, termination, renewal).
- Serve as First Level Reviewer (FLR); provide actionable feedback to improve contract quality, compliance, and turnaround time.
- Conduct QC checks prior to approvals to ensure accuracy of commercials/scope and consistency with internal policies.
- Partner with Legal, Finance, InfoSec, and business owners to close negotiations efficiently across time zones.
Process Specialist
Nexdigm Corporate Services Limited
09.2021 - 10.2023
- Served as Procurement Specialist for pharmaceutical giant.
- Drafted, redlined, and negotiated contracts for healthcare professionals, including consulting agreements, steering committee agreements, statements of work, amendments, sponsorships, donations, speaker agreements, and templates for North America (NA) and Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regions, supporting both commercial and research and development departments.
- Redlined and negotiated contract types with business professionals, senior procurement counsel, and attorneys.
- Perform RCA in the case of any escalation from the Client or any of the Suppliers/Vendors and also devise a solution and perform a remediation, if possible, in such cases.
- Drafting contractual provisions based on strategy discussions, management inputs, and organizational needs & expectations.
- Engaging relevant stakeholders in negotiation decisions involving legal or regulatory requirements, contract standards and cost targets.
- Conducted drafting and vetting of contract clauses to ensure compliance with client requirements and milestones.
- Also looked after the quality of the deliverables and QC of contracts (eg: WOs and COs) drafted by the junior team members.
Associate Attorney
DWF Mindcrest Limited
03.2020 - 09.2021
- Working in various projects related to Contract Lifecycle Management, Abstraction, Red-Lining, Negotiations.
- Drafting of multiple types of high complexity agreements such as Consulting Agreement, Sponsorship Agreement, Donation Agreement, Speaker Agreement for North America and EMEA region for Commercial and R&D category.
- Worked on: Document Review & E-discovery (tagging on the basis of the various issue codes & privileges).
- Contract Extraction (on the various metadata fields).
- Discovery & Organisation (D&O) of the different contracts provided on a family basis.
- Developing & executing negotiation strategies that minimize potential losses and benefit the organization’s financial performance.
- Developed harmonized templates for a client i.e. developing of a Global template keeping in mind the different NA and EMEA compliances.
- Leading contract strategy meetings to identify issues and client requirements, facilitating pricing discussions, and obtaining senior management input on timelines & deliverables.
- Maintaining deadlines on deliverables and communicating on an ongoing basis with business partners & internal clients about contractual issues.
Senior Process Executive
Infosys BPM Limited
01.2018 - 03.2020
- Drafting, Reviewing and Redlining of Agreements. Handling Contract Management Process for deals of high revenue.
- Negotiation of Agreements for business transactions, prepare and advice on necessary checklists to be adopted to ensure information is submitted on time.
- Performing abstraction of key data and information on a wide variety of contract types.
- Managed team to achieve service level targets.
- Working on Medium and High complexity Contracts.
- Conducted quality checks and reviews during process execution.
- Led client calls and addressed escalations and enquiries to ensure client satisfaction.
- Supporting Process transformation initiatives.
Advocate
District and Sessions Court, Shivaji Nagar, Pune
10.2016 - 12.2017
- Assisted lawyers with legal research in preparation for cases.
- Prepared and organized all necessary legal documents for client cases.
- Obtain and review commercial and residential title law papers.
- Obtained and reviewed commercial and residential title law papers to ensure compliance and accuracy.
- Conducted research, interviewed clients and witnesses, and managed details for trial preparation.
- Interpret laws, rulings, and regulations for individuals' business.
Education
Bachelor of Commerce -
Modern College
Bachelor of Law -
D.E.S Navalmal Firodia Law College
Skills
- Contract management
- Agreement drafting
- Contract negotiation
- Due diligence
- Legal advice
- Statutory compliance
- Supplier Evaluation
- Contract Tracking
- Spend Analysis
- EMarketPlace Contracting
- International Contracting Database
- Entity management
- Aravo
- Tableau
- Office 365
- Excel
- Word
- Power Point
- Microsoft Teams
- SFDC
- Cloud Solutions
- Ironclad
- Team leadership
- Client management
- Documentation management
Accomplishments
- Spot Awards for four quarters and Top Performer award at Zscaler Softech India Pvt. Ltd.
- Spot Awards for two quarters at Nexdigm Corporate Services Pvt Ltd.
- Exceptional Performance Award for August 2020 at DWF Mindcrest Ltd.
- Multiple Spot Awards for good performance at Infosys.
- CRB (Client Retention Bonus) awarded for the year 2019 at Infosys.
Additional Information
English, Hindi, Marathi, Japanese (Beginner level), Pune, Maharashtra, India, Open to relocation
Area Of Expertise
- Contract Lifecycle Management
- Client Handling
- Team Management
- Drafting and Vetting of Agreements
- Redlining and Negotiation
- Due Diligence
- Legal Advisory
- Reporting and Documentation
- Legal/ Statutory Compliances
Languages
English
Advanced
C1
Hindi
Proficient
C2
Marathi
Advanced
C1
Japanese
Beginner
A1
Timeline
Assistant Manager, Procurement Contracts
Zscaler Softech India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2024 - Current
Process Specialist
Nexdigm Corporate Services Limited
09.2021 - 10.2023
Associate Attorney
DWF Mindcrest Limited
03.2020 - 09.2021
Senior Process Executive
Infosys BPM Limited
01.2018 - 03.2020
Advocate
District and Sessions Court, Shivaji Nagar, Pune
10.2016 - 12.2017
Bachelor of Commerce -
Modern College
Bachelor of Law -
D.E.S Navalmal Firodia Law College