Legal Buyside Contracting is a focused legal function for third party contracting. The team is involved with drafting, reviewing and negotiating third party supplier contracts for Accenture and acts as a legal advisory services function leveraging technology to deliver support.

Legal Buyside Contracting Role Summary – To provide comprehensive legal support to Procurement and Business teams which includes drafting, reviewing, negotiation and execution of contracts, NDA’s and other documents relevant to procurement support in accordance with company policies and procedures, applicable laws and customer requirements. Provide advisory support to procurement and business teams by driving the creation of templates, standardize the templates, maintain and continuously improve the standard contracts templates and procedures for complex buyside deals in accordance with changing laws and company policies. Develop specialized subject-matter expertise in support area to seamlessly address any potential risks or issues.

Management Level Description

Complexity:

• Requires identifying and assessing complex problems for area of responsibility. Creates solutions in situations in which analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.
• Requires adherence to strategic direction set by senior management when establishing near-term goals.
• Interaction is with senior management of the team, internal stakeholders third party vendors, contractors subcontractors etc., involving matters that may require acceptance of an alternate approach..

Scope: Manages large - medium sized teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role).

Key Responsibilities:

• Draft, review and negotiate high value and high complex supplier/buyside agreements and similar/related documentation with Accenture suppliers, to procure various goods and services including but not limited to Contactors, Human Resources Support, IT & Telecom, Marketing & Communications, Workplace Support (Facilities & Services), Software as a Service etc. in accordance with Accenture’s supplier’s contracting standards, applicable laws, and business requirements.
• Address complex contract queries and matters regarding contract negotiations, obligations and revisions. Identify risks and issues, suggest alternatives that lead to the best solutions. In this regard effectively manage the internal stakeholders such as deal teams, Solution Architects, Procurement, HR, Workplace, Finance, Marketing & Communications etc.,
• Strategize with company executives prior to vendor negotiations and represent the company’s interests and liaise directly with vendor negotiating teams for legal point on complex contract reviews with high stakes for the company.
• Act as a point of contact from legal and work closely with the stakeholders to help them understand the contractual clauses in terms of interpretation and its applicability in the contract basis the business opportunity.
• Advise the Business from legal perspective to address the potential contractual risks that may pose as risks to Accenture business operations.
• Conduct gap analysis and create legal risk assessment by identifying and flagging potential risks to Accenture and/or clauses which are non-negotiable. Provide recommendations to Business and other related stakeholders to sensitize them on the extent of risk Accenture exposes itself in context of the services and to minimize or mitigate such risks effectively.
• Structure the legal transactions to be most advantageous from a contracting and business perspective and manage escalations
• Autonomously works across all categories and complexities of contractual agreements with vendor/clients deals including reviewing, advising and negotiating legal issues.
• Assign & Manage Tasks to the team.
• Manages escalations of serious or unresolved issues in accordance with prescribed guidelines and ensures all interested parties are kept informed and escalation controlled.
• Provide team members with positive and developmental feedback on their work product, conduct etc. as a supervisor or QA resource.

Relationships:

Supervises:

• Team members providing services on a process/project or account/portfolio of accounts

External Relationships:

• Procurement, Business Executives, Contract Management, Outside counsels, Vendors, Corporate Function related stakeholders like HR, Workplace etc.

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Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Law

Work Experience:

• Minimum of 5 to 15 years of experience at law firm or as in-house counsel and/or in legal outsourcing

Knowledge and Skill Requirements:

• Expert level understanding of both commercial and legal contractual risks and displays ability to provide business-oriented legal advice
• Fluent in English with strong oral and written skills
• Experience in managing end-to-end projects and teams on function specific processes and/or areas, work with internal and external teams, and understands delivery requirements
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, is detail-oriented, has sound judgement, is adaptable, demonstrate promptness, accuracy, and consistency with the activities supported, and drive tasks to closure, has strong time management, prioritization, organizational skills
• Build trust-based relationships by delivering on commitments, ability to work under pressure, with exposure to senior management
• Effectively manage priorities and stakeholder expectations
• Able to effectively influence senior management.
• Good understanding of Accenture offerings and function specific services performed, very good understanding of commercial agreements, legal and compliance fundamentals, corporate business practices, and contracting regulations
• Comfortable with technology and has experience in the use of tools & databases

Behaviours and Attributes:

• Open to work with and understand cross-cultures and locations throughout Accenture global organization 
• Understand the value of diversity and recognize the strengths that different styles, innovative perspectives and experiences bring to Accenture 
• Demonstrate inclusion and respect for all individuals regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, age, disability, culture, social status and/or sexuality 
• Leader as well as team player, collaborative and persuasive; able to work well with executives and non-executives.
• Fluency in English (and other language, depending on geography supported) with very strong oral and written communication skills.

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