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Contracting Legal Professionals (CLP) in Accenture’s Corporate Functions organization coordinate and deliver legal, contract and commercial counsel in support of Accenture's business. CLPs identify and help manage and mitigate risk and ensure ethical behavior and compliance with laws and company policies, while providing guidance and negotiating contracts leveraging commercial and market relevant positions.

Contracting Counsel Senior Manager

Lead, structure, draft and negotiate complex client transactions in a fast-paced corporate environment including master services agreements, outsourcing agreements, statements of work, service level agreements, licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, data transfer agreements, requests for proposals and agreements involving cloud, blockchain security, automation, systems integration and agile development. Advise senior company leadership on legal risks associated with transactions and understanding of the larger market. Manage and advise junior legal professionals in transactions and related matters. Act, and continuously evolve as, a knowledgeable and relevant advisor on legal and commercial risks associated with transactions while supporting Legal, Business and Sales Leadership in shaping and executing Accenture’s market-facing strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Lead, structure, negotiate and close Accenture’s largest and most complex client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective

• Oversee, counsel, guide, train and support junior CLPs and, in some cases, other senior CLPs

• Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company’s transactional practices

• E ducate and advise company executives with respect to legal and risk management issues

• Develop subject matter expertise in one of more areas that benefit Legal and/or our business

• Participate in developing internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge capital on various legal and business issues

• Support, promote and implement Legal Group initiatives

• Embrace and evolve to gain expertise in seven Contracting attributes, including becoming a pathfinder, architect, business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology enabled contracting professional

  RELATIONSHIPS:

  Reports to: Contracting Lead

  Supervises: No direct supervisory responsibility

  External Relationships: Accenture client executives and negotiating teams; Outside Counsel

  WORK REQUIREMENTS:

• Travel required.

• Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Basic Qualifications:

• Juris Doctorate (or equivalent)

• Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction

• Minimum 8 years transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in a law firm or a corporate legal/transaction group

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of experience negotiating Intellectual Property and Data Privacy issues preferred

• Accomplished negotiator with an understanding of principle-based negotiation strategy and tactics including the ability to present alternatives with proposed solutions

• Proven ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions independently

• Experience negotiating and drafting technology-based agreements

• Understand basic principles of Finance, Accounting, Marketing, and Management

• Strong executive presence

• Good understanding of contracting/risk issues, including IP, as they apply to digital, consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing transactions; and

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Experience and demonstrated capability in conducting and supervising investigations (including compliance-related investigations, employment investigations, and governmental investigations) and in drafting confidential reports and advising senior leadership on such risks

• In-depth knowledge of local ethical/conduct/compliance-related risks, employee rights and obligations, and related laws

• Extensive experience in employee relations and workplace investigations

• Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian De monstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below.We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here. (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/total-rewards)

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $131,100 to $336,900

Colorado $131,100 to $291,100

District of Columbia $139,600 to $309,900

New York $121,400 to $336,900

Maryland $121,400 to $269,500

Washington $139,600 to $309,900

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