Contracting Counsel Senior Manager

Accenture Southeast Asia; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Southeast Asia is seeking a Senior Legal Lead to structure, draft and negotiate the company’s largest client transactions. You will advise senior leaders on legal risks, manage a team of junior lawyers, and stay abreast of market developments to shape contracting practices.

The role requires extensive experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing. You will educate executives on risk management and help evolve internal guidelines, tools, and knowledge capital

Qualifications

• LLB or JD (or equivalent) is required and legal licensure in at least one SEA jurisdiction.
• Extensive transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing.
• Proven ability to negotiate technology-based agreements and manage risk.

Responsibilities

• Lead, structure, draft and negotiate complex client transactions including master services and outsourcing agreements.
• Advise senior leadership on legal risks and market implications.
• Manage and mentor junior legal professionals in transactions.
• Stay current on developments affecting clients and industries and integrate into transactional practices.
• Educate executives on legal and risk management issues.
• Develop subject matter expertise to support Legal and Sales leadership.
• Support internal guidelines and knowledge capital for contracting.
• Help implement Legal’s initiatives and adapt to seven contracting attributes.

Skills

Negotiation

Transaction management

Technology contracts

Executive presence

IP & data privacy

Communication skills

Contract drafting

Risk understanding

Education

LLB/JD or equivalent

Job description

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, applied intelligence, 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 largest and most complex client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective
• Oversee, counsel, guide, train and support junior legal professionals
• 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’s 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
• LLB or JD (or equivalent)
• Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one South East Asian jurisdiction
• Approximately 13 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in roles with increasing responsibility, that experience should be in a law firm or in a fast-paced inhouse corporate legal/transaction group in a relevant industry
• Approximately 3 years of experience negotiating intellectual property and data privacy issues

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

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