Contracting Counsel Senior Manager

Contracting Counsel Senior Manager

Salary: Competitive based on skills and experience

Location: London (some travel may be required)

As a Contracting Counsel Senior Manager, you will play a key role in supporting Accenture’s business by leading complex client transactions and providing strategic legal and commercial advice. You will help manage risk, ensure compliance, and enable business growth by negotiating and structuring innovative technology and outsourcing agreements.

Working closely with senior stakeholders across Legal, Sales, and the business, you will shape and deliver high-value deals while mentoring junior legal professionals and contributing to the evolution of Accenture’s contracting practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, structure, draft, negotiate and close complex client agreements including master services agreements, outsourcing agreements, SaaS and licensing agreements, statements of work, and data transfer agreements.

• Support strategic deals across areas such as cloud, automation, systems integration, blockchain security, and agile development.

• Provide clear legal and commercial advice to senior leaders on transactional risks and opportunities.

• Guide and mentor junior Contracting Legal Professionals on transactions and best practices.

• Develop subject matter expertise in key legal or commercial areas that support the business.

• Contribute to internal contracting frameworks, tools, and knowledge resources 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.

Qualifications:

• JD (or equivalent law degree)

• Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction

• Proven track record of transactional experience, ideally within digital, consulting, systems integration, or outsourcing environments (law firm or corporate legal team).

• Experience negotiating technology-based agreements.

• Intellectual Property and Data Privacy negotiation experience preferred.

Skills & Experience:

• 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. 

Note: Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration. 

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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