Contracting Specialist

Accenture Infrastructure and Capital Projects, LLC; Mandaluyong; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a capable lawyer in the Philippines to review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of contracts including MSA, outsourcing, SOW, SLAs, SaaS, data transfer and more. The role supports senior Contracting lawyers on complex deals and helps evolve corporate contracting practices.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years of transactional experience, strong negotiation skills, and fluency in English and Filipino, with Law Degree and Philippine bar status.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing.
• Minimum 1 year of experience negotiating intellectual property and data privacy issues.
• Proven negotiator with principle-based negotiation strategy and the ability to present alternatives.
• 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 in English and Filipino.

Responsibilities

• Structure, negotiate and close client transactions to be most advantageous legally and commercially.
• Strategize with senior Contracting lawyers and internal business clients before negotiations.
• Stay abreast of developments affecting the company and industries and synthesize insights into contracting practices.
• Educate and advise company executives on legal and risk management issues.
• Develop subject matter expertise to benefit Legal and the business.
• Develop internal guidelines, toolkits, and knowledge capital on legal and business issues.
• Support, promote and implement Accenture Legal initiatives.
• Evolve as a contracting lawyer with attributes like pathfinder, architect, and technology-enabled adviser.

Skills

Transactional experience

Negotiation

IP & data privacy

Executive presence

English & Filipino

Independently manage volume

Education

Law Degree

Philippines bar admission

Tools

Legal research tools

Job description

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

Educational Requirement:

• Law Degree
• Practicing law in the Philippines

Skills and Work Experience

Must Have:

• Minimum 2 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 inhouse role in a relevant industry
• Minimum of 1 year of experience negotiating intellectual property and data privacy issues
• Proven 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 in English and Filipino.

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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