Contracting Counsel Manager

Posted:
3/5/2026, 10:34:45 PM

Location(s):
Greater London, England, United Kingdom ⋅ England, United Kingdom

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Legal & Compliance

Contracting Counsel Manager

Salary: Competitive based on skills and experience

Location: London (some travel may be required as part of the role)

Join Accenture’s Legal & Commercial team as a Contracting Counsel Manager, where you will play a key role in shaping and negotiating complex, high-value client deals that drive our global business.

As part of our Contracting Legal Professionals (CLP) team, you will provide strategic legal and commercial guidance, helping the business navigate risk while enabling innovative technology and outsourcing solutions for clients.

You’ll work on large, complex global deals, collaborate with senior leaders, and help shape innovative solutions across industries while growing your expertise in technology-enabled contracting.

What You’ll Do:

  • Lead, structure, negotiate and close Accenture’s complex client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective.

  • Counsel, guide, train and support junior CLPs.

  • 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 Legal Group initiatives.

  • Embrace and evolve to gain expertise in  seven Contracting  attributes, including  becoming a pathfinder, architect, business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology enabled contracting professional.

What We’re Looking For:

  • Qualified lawyer (JD or equivalent) licensed to practice in at least one jurisdiction.

  • Strong experience of negotiating complex commercial or technology agreements in a law firm or corporate legal environment.

  • Experience with digital, consulting, systems integration or outsourcing transactions.

  • Knowledge of intellectual property and data privacy issues in commercial contracts preferred.

  • Strong negotiation, communication and stakeholder management skills.

  • Ability to manage multiple transactions in a fast-paced environment.

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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Accenture

Website: https://accenture.com/

Headquarter Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1989

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Grant

Industries: Business Information Systems ⋅ Construction ⋅ Consulting ⋅ Information Services ⋅ Information Technology ⋅ Infrastructure ⋅ Management Consulting ⋅ Outsourcing