Sourcing & Cat Enablement Specialist

TymblHub; India; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture India is seeking a Contract Senior Specialist to facilitate third party commercial contracts, ensuring compliance with client policies and laws. This non-attorney role involves drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and guiding across business units while protecting interests and minimizing risks.

You will manage multiple engagements, coordinate with legal and procurement teams, and support policy enforcement and contract repository maintenance.

Qualifications

• Legal degree required with a minimum of 6 years of experience or relevant contract management experience.
• Ability to identify legal risk across contract types and explain business implications.
• Experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating varied contracts (IT, Marketing, Professional Services).
• Experience working with cross-functional/global teams and stakeholder management.
• Knowledge of procurement processes, market/supplier analysis and performance measurement.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate contracts using client or supplier templates with legal support.
• Coordinate contract analysis, redlines and negotiations with clients and suppliers.
• Prepare information on contract status, compliance and modifications across teams.
• Maintain contract databases and ensure filings in the contract repository.
• Provide coaching to other contract specialists on legal interpretation and review.
• Manage multiple complex projects and push deals through to execution.

Skills

Legal risk identification

Contract management

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Data/information management

Procurement knowledge

Contract drafting/negotiation

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor of Laws

Tools

Contract management software

Contract repository tools

Job description

## Job Description**Skill required:** Contract Services - Contract management **Designation:** Sourcing Cat Enablement Specialist **Qualifications:**Bachelor of Laws **Years of Experience:**7 to 11 years **Language - Ability:**English(Domestic) - Advanced **What would you do** The Contract Senior Specialist will facilitate the development and execution of a variety of third party commercial contracts in accordance with our clients policies and procedures, applicable laws, and other requirements. The Contract Senior Specialist may provide guidance to the clients business units and project teams on contract management and policy compliance matters, and may lead more than one engagement.Contract Services involve the management and administration of contracts between businesses and their clients or vendors. This includes drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and ensuring compliance with contract terms.Depending on the size and complexity of the agreement, the Contract Senior Specialist may be full-time on a single engagement. This is a non-attorney position.This role will be primarily based in Accenture IndiaContract Services involve the management and administration of contracts between businesses and their clients or vendors. This includes drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and ensuring compliance with contract terms. The goal is to protect the interests of all parties involved and to ensure that agreements are clear and enforceable. Effective contract services help minimize risks and disputes. They also ensure that contractual obligations are met efficiently and on time.Manage the processes whereby performance of client work is coordinated with the contract rights and obligations of the parties to ensure contract compliance (or that the contract is modified as appropriate). **What are we looking for** Contract Services involve the management and administration of contracts between businesses and their clients or vendors. This includes drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and ensuring compliance with contract terms. The goal is to protect the interests of all parties involved and to ensure that agreements are clear and enforceable. Effective contract services help minimize risks and disputes. They also ensure that contractual obligations are met efficiently and on time.- Legal degree required with a minimum of 6 years of experience or relevant contract management experience required with a minimum of 8 years of experience;- Be able to identify legal risk in various contract types;- In depth experience working with a variety of contract types (i.e. preparing, reviewing and negotiating) and contract processes (i.e. implementation, etc.);- Must be able to recognize, identify and clearly be able to explain business and convey legal positions;- Impactful experience working within cross-functional and/or global teams of contracting and / or procurement professionals and aligning with established performance expectations;- Internal stakeholder management, data/information management, category management, process design and continuous improvement initiatives, project management and performance measurement skills;- Procurement process knowledge, contract management, market analysis, supplier analysis, supplier diversity, technology utilization, strategic planning, and integrated supply chain experience is an advantage; **Roles and Responsibilities:**- Draft and negotiate contracts based on both client templates and supplier templates, in a timely manner with appropriate legal support to ensure compliance with client standards;- Strong subject matter expertise in drafting agreements in following areas: IT, Marketing, Professional Services, Facilities, MRO. Specific experience within the Pharma industry highly desirable;- Coordinate and perform contract analysis, including redlines and negotiations with client legal and other stakeholders, as well as suppliers to: Negotiate business terms and collaborate, coordinate, and be able to explain risks and implications of contract terms to the business and other stakeholders. Complete gap analyses, review, redline, and understand contract language, risks and implications of such language. Draft commercial terms as needed.- Prepare and disseminate information regarding contract status, compliance, modifications, with the ability to work within cross-functional teams to maintain contracting procedures and ensuring adherence to regional/goal category strategies;- Consulting and escalating positioning issues which are not solved satisfactorily to the project team in a timely manner;- Act as a contact between the project team and/or business unit and corporate legal counsel, ensuring that all legal and contractual matters are addressed efficiently and promptly;- Issue necessary modifications to clarify questions concerning such topics as specification changes, language ambiguities or clarification of contract clause;- Manage multiple, complex projects independently with the ability to resolve complex negotiation issues in a timely manner, escalating as appropriate and push a deal through to execution;- Assist with training and coaching to other contract specialists on legal review and interpretation;- Ensure that all contracts and agreements are filed in the contract repository;- Manage projects within Accentures proprietary or client workflow tools to document each step of the contract formation process.- Maintain and update contract databases and disseminate information as appropriate **Qualification** Bachelor of Laws