Contracting Counsel Manager

Accenture; Quezon City; On-site; PHP 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps businesses optimize operations and innovate at scale. The Contracting Legal Professionals (CLP) coordinate and deliver legal and commercial counsel to support Accenture’s business lines.

As a CLP, you will lead, structure, draft and negotiate complex client transactions such as MSAs, outsourcing, SOWs, SLAs and SaaS; advise senior leadership on legal risks, and manage junior CLPs while shaping market-facing contracting

Qualifications

• Licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.
• Minimum 6 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing.
• Minimum 3 years negotiating Intellectual Property and Data Privacy issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead, structure, negotiate and close Accenture’s complex client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective.
• Counsel, guide, train and support junior CLPs.
• Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company’s transactional practices.
• Develop subject matter experience in one or 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 experience in seven Contracting attributes: pathfinder, architect, business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology enabled contracting professional.

Job description

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:

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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, structure, negotiate and close Accenture’s complex client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective and educate and advise company executives with respect to legal and risk management issues
• Counsel, guide, train and support junior CLPs
• Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company’s transactional practices
• Develop subject matter experience 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 experience in seven Contracting attributes, including becoming a pathfinder, architect, business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology enabled contracting professional

Relationships:

Reports to: Contracting Lead for the MU

Supervises: As per designated role
External Relationships: Accenture client executives and negotiating teams; Outside Counsel

Job Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Law Degree
• Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction
• Minimum 6 years 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 3 years of experience negotiating Intellectual Property and Data Privacy issues preferred

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
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions with high degree of autonomy
• 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:

• 12-15 years of experience in legal services

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.

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