Legal Contracting Manager

Accenture Infrastructure and Capital Projects, LLC; Madrid; Híbrido; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical insurance

Wellness programs

Stock purchase plan

Flexible compensation

Training itinerary

Sustainability programs

Diversity networks

Descripción de la vacante

Accenture is seeking a Contracting Legal Professional in Madrid to review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of contractual agreements in a fast-paced corporate setting.

You will work with senior CLPs and business clients to manage risk, ensure compliance, and drive favorable outcomes across master services, outsourcing, SOWs, and SaaS agreements, leveraging strong English and Spanish language skills. Hybrid work model and international exposure offered.

Formación

• JD (or equivalent) is required.
• Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.
• Minimum 5 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing.
• Minimum of 2 years of IP and Data Privacy negotiation experience.
• Languages: English and Spanish.

Responsabilidades

• Structure, negotiate and close client transactions favoring legal and business interests.
• Strategize with senior CLPs and business clients before negotiations.
• Stay updated on developments affecting the company and clients.
• Educate and advise executives on legal and risk management issues.
• Develop expertise in areas benefiting Legal and business groups.
• Contribute to internal guidelines and knowledge capital.
• Support and implement Legal Group initiatives.
• Embrace seven contracting attributes in practice.
• Fluent in English and Spanish.

Conocimientos

Negotiation

Independent transactions

Technology contracts

Finance basics

Executive presence

Contract risk

Communication skills

Educación

JD or equivalent

Descripción del empleo

Accenture, recognized as a Great Place To Work®, is a leading global professional services company that helps major businesses, public administrations, and other organizations around the world develop their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth, and improve services for citizens, creating tangible value at speed and scale.

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.

Job Summary:

Review, draft, and negotiate several types of contractual agreements in a fast-paced corporate environment which may include: 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. Team with more senior CLPs in supporting more complex contracts and deal structures. Act, and continuously evolve as, a knowledgeable and relevant advisor on legal and commercial risks associated with transactions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Independently, and help to, structure, negotiate and close client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective

• Strategize with senior CLPs and internal business clients prior to client negotiations

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

• Educate 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

• Fluent in English & Spanish

• Extensive knowledge of Spanish legislation relating to the matters described.

Relationships:

Reports to: Contracting Lead

Supervises: No direct supervisory responsibility
External Relationships: Accenture client executives and negotiating teams; Outside Counsel

Qualifications:

• JD (or equivalent)

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

• Minimum 5years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in roles with increasing responsibility, such experience should be in a law firm or in a fast-paced corporate legal/transaction group in a relevant industry

• Minimum of 2 years of experience negotiating Intellectual Property and Data Privacy issues

• Languages: English and Spanish

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• 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

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Additional Desirable Criteria:

• Broad experience in working with state and local government agencies or working with clients in the healthcare arena.

Work Requirements:

• Travel required.

• Candidates who are currently on assignment as part of the Global Careers program are not eligible for consideration.

• Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).

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

At Accenture, a company recognized as a Great Place To Work®, we are committed to a hybrid work model that, thanks to technology and our facilities, allows us to maintain the essential human connection to work with our teams and clients. This connection enables us to uphold our culture of inclusion and diversity and be, according to Refinitiv, the most diverse company in the world.

Additionally, we offer you other benefits such as:

• Medical, Life, and Accident Insurance

• Medical service and wellness programs

• Flexible compensation program and stock purchase

• Flexibility programs (schedules, days off, vacations…)

• Individualized training itinerary

• Sustainability programs and Accenture Foundation

• Employee network for diversity

• Other benefits: Bankinter office with special conditions and profit sharing

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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