Contracting Counsel Senior Manager

Accenture PLC; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Singapore seeks a Lead transactional lawyer to structure, draft and negotiate complex client agreements in a fast-paced environment. You will oversee senior leadership and guide junior lawyers in master services, outsourcing, and IP/privacy matters.

You will stay informed on regulatory developments, translate legal risks into business terms, and contribute to contracting strategies across digital, consulting and systems integration initiatives.

Qualifications

• Accomplished negotiator with strong negotiation strategy
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to manage large volumes of transactions independently
• Experience drafting technology-based agreements
• Understanding of finance, accounting, marketing and management

Responsibilities

• Lead, structure, negotiate and close Accenture’s largest and most complex client transactions
• Oversee, counsel, guide, and train junior legal professionals
• Stay abreast of developments affecting the company and synthesize them for transactional practices
• Educate executives on legal and risk management issues
• Develop subject matter expertise in one or more areas benefiting Legal or business
• Develop internal guidelines, toolkits and knowledge capital on legal issues
• Support and promote Accenture Legal’s initiatives
• Evolve to be a pathfinder, architect and business-minded contracting lawyer

Skills

Negotiation

Executive presence

Contract drafting

IP & Privacy

Leadership

Cross-functional

Education

LLB/JD

SEA jurisdiction license

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, such 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

Accenture is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Accenture is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity.