Job Summary: 

Reviews, drafts and negotiates a large number of client transactions of various levels of complexity within a corporate environment.  Advises company leadership on legal risks associated with transactions.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Oversee, counsel, guide, train and support junior contracting professionals.
• Stay abreast of contracting developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company’s contracting practices
• Educate company executives in regard to contracting and risk management issues
• Represent the company’s interests and interface directly with client  negotiating teams
• Strategize with company executives prior to client negotiations
• Structure client transactions to be most advantageous from a contracting and business perspective
• Advise, and consult company executives based on accurate interpretation of contract documents and the facts of a business opportunity
• Develop internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge on various contracting and business issues
• Develop subject matter expertise in one of more areas that benefit Contracting and/or our business
• Support, promote and implement Legal Group initiatives

Relationships: 

            Reports to: 

                                   

MU Contracting Lead

            Supervises: 

            May supervise Associate Managers and/or Specialists, where required.

           

External Relationships: 

Client Executives and negotiating teams.

Qualifications:

Education: 

College degree required; advanced degree in law, business or contract management preferred.

Work Experience:  

• Minimum of 6 years relevant industry experience including a minimum of 3 years of contracting experience in an appropriate fast-paced corporate environment is essential. Consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing experience is preferred.
• Proven ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions
• Experience negotiating Intellectual Property issues

             

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• Independently manage drafting transactional documents and correspondence
• Understand basic principles of Finance, Accounting, Marketing, and Management
• Basic understanding of Intellectual Property issues as they apply to consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing transactions
• Able to present alternatives and proposed solutions
• Responsive and follows through on commitments
• Strong time management, prioritization, and organizational skills
• Ability to apply judgment to broaden influence
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in Spanish and English
• Proficient in MS Office suite of products

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.

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