Contracting Counsel Associate Manager

Accenture in India; Bengaluru; Sur place; INR 2 500 000 - 4 000 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Accenture in India seeks an experienced contracts professional to draft, negotiate, and manage a variety of agreements in a fast-paced corporate environment. You will work on master services, outsourcing, SOWs, SLAs, licensing, SaaS, data transfer, and cloud-related contracts.

Collaborating with senior lawyers and business teams, you will advise on legal and commercial risks and help evolve contracting practices across multiple deal types.

Qualifications

• Experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Ability to assess legal and business risk in contracts.
• Strong written and verbal communication in a corporate setting.

Responsabilités

• Independently structure, negotiate and close client transactions.
• Strategize with senior contracting lawyers before negotiations.
• Stay updated on developments affecting the company and clients.
• Educate executives on legal and risk management issues.
• Develop subject matter expertise benefiting Legal and business.
• Help develop internal guidelines and knowledge assets.
• Support and promote Accenture Legal initiatives.
• Evolve as a contract lawyer across attributes like pathfinder and architect.

Connaissances

Contract negotiation

Drafting

Legal research

Regulatory compliance

Communication

Description du poste

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, applied intelligence, systems integration and agile development. Team with more senior Contracting lawyers 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 Contracting lawyers 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 Accenture Legal initiatives
• Embrace and evolve to gain expertise in seven Contracting attributes, including becoming a pathfinder, an architect, as well as a business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology-enabled contracting lawyer