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- Accenture’s Legal corporate function supports the entirety of Accenture’s business to minimize risk and ensure compliance with laws and company policies. We encompass 3,000+ legal professional in 46 countries, making us amongst the biggest in-house units of our kind globally.
- The Legal Operations function provides services to other Legal functions that improve their day-to-day efficiency and effectiveness, facilitate change and control costs. We bring a wide range of distinctive capabilities, including Strategic Programme Management, Change Management, Legal Technology and Knowledge & Learning.
This role will be the focal point of Legal Operations support to support one of our Legal Executive Team members and their Legal team.
About the Role:
This is an exciting opportunity to serve as the strategic business partner for one of our Legal Executive Committee (LEC) members to develop long-term strategy, guide transformation, oversee strategic projects and support operational needs to meet an ever-increasing demand for legal support.
This includes:
- Engaging with LEC member and other senior stakeholders in their team to understand their objectives and to help provide strategic solutions that meet their needs.
- Providing information, analysis and strategic guidance to team leadership to enable strategic decisions on key priorities and team investments.
- Steering the prioritization, development and implementation of the team’s project portfolio and programs to meet their strategic goals.
- Championing innovation and a drive to efficiency.
- Supporting the operational effectiveness of the team through constantly improving the value management information and data, through business planning and through the coordination of operational activity.
- Leading on high priority strategic initiatives that require close integration with Legal leadership, and other cross-functional teams.
Reports to:
- Strategic Projects and Operations Lead within Legal Operations.
Requirements:
Experience:
- Minimum of eight years working experience in fast-paced project-based roles, be that consulting to external clients and/or working on strategic internal initiatives.
- Proven record of supporting senior client or internal stakeholders in variety of scoping, planning, execution and monitoring activities.
- Experience of working across multiple geographic borders and time zones.
- Demonstrable ability to define a programmatic approach and identify the key factors and constraints; knowledge and competence in identifying risks, issues and dependencies.
- Fluency in Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Experience in managing more junior resources; demonstrable stewardship mindset for developing and progressing people.
Skills:
- Strong evaluation and critical thinking skills: able to identify the real issue, and to anticipate requirements and potential consequences.
- Logical reasoning: able to demonstrate rationale behind any recommendations and achieve consensus around proposed outcomes.
- Outstanding spoken and written communication skills: able to deal confidently, tactfully and appropriately with people of different disciplines and at all levels of the organisation.
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills: able to build strong relationships with multiple global stakeholders quickly via virtual tools; listen, understand and respond to any concerns.
- Prioritization skills: Comfortable working within a large and complex environment with multiple stakeholders and interest groups.
- Task management: Professional and organized approach to delivery. Able to work under pressure and to tight timescales, with minimal supervision.
- Strategic thinking and innovation: Able to think strategically but also willing and able to roll their sleeves up and do whatever is needed to achieve key business objectives, diving into detail where necessary.
- Influence and communication: Able to be highly credible and persuasive, influencing key stakeholders and effecting change with or without direct reporting authority.
- Collaboration: Able to work well with others, to build strong relationships, to share knowledge and expertise to foster a sense of trust.
- Drive: Commitment to getting things done, including self-sufficiency and the lack of need for detailed direction.
- Flexibility: Ability to manage diary and working pattern to enable more interactions with global stakeholders.
- Resilience: Able to manage emotions and take steps to manage workplace frustrations constructively; remaining calm and positive under pressure.
Nice to have:
- Experience as Lead on programme of at least 10 FTE / $4m budget and / or experience on programmes typically greater than 20 FTE / $8m budget.
- Breadth of programmatic experience, including delivering successful projects across external-facing, operations and technology units.
- Demonstrable ability to set up and run programmatic services, including defining the approach, structure and operations of a high-performing PMO.
- Knowledge of operating model, talent strategy, learning and development, change management, communications and culture frameworks.
- Regular user of commonly used project planning and scheduling tools such as Microsoft Project, Primavera etc.
- Exposure to data analytics, including modelling and visualization.
- Exposure to innovation management.
- Achievement or enroute to achieving Professional project management qualification such as PRINCE or PMP at Practitioner level.
Application Details:
- Please upload CV in English.
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