Contracting Counsel Senior Manager

Accenture; Singapore; On-site; SGD 200,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an experienced Lead Counsel to structure, draft and negotiate complex client transactions across master services, outsourcing, SOWs, SLAs, licensing and SaaS agreements. You will advise senior leadership on legal risks and mentor junior professionals in a fast-paced environment.

You will stay updated on industry developments, educate executives on risk and contracting issues, and help develop internal guidelines and knowledge capital to support market-facing strategies.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Approximately 3 years of experience negotiating intellectual property and data privacy issues.

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.

Skills

Negotiation

Executive presence

Contract management

Stakeholder communication

Risk analysis

Leadership

Education

LLB/JD

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

Relationships:

• Reports to: Contracting Lead
• Supervises: No direct supervisory responsibility
• External Relationships: Accenture client executives and negotiating teams; Outside Counsel

Education and Eligibility:

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 .

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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