Contracting Counsel Senior Manager

8-8 yrs required

Full-time

No

Contracting Counsel Senior Manager is a senior-level role at Accenture, a leading global professional services company that helps businesses, governments, and organizations build their digital core, optimize operations, accelerate revenue growth, and enhance citizen services. This role is part of Accenture's Corporate Functions organization and is responsible for coordinating and delivering legal, contract, and commercial counsel in support of the company's business.

The Contracting Counsel Senior Manager is a 6th level senior manager and will work in the Legal & Commercial talent segment, specifically within Sales & Delivery - Contracting. The role is available in multiple locations and is a full-time position. The primary responsibilities of this role include leading, structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex client transactions in a fast-paced corporate environment.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead, structure, negotiate, and close Accenture's largest and most complex client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective
- Oversee, counsel, guide, train, and support junior Contracting Legal Professionals (CLPs) and, in some cases, other senior CLPs
- Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into the company's transactional practices
- Educate and advise company executives on legal and risk management issues
- Develop subject matter expertise in one or more areas that benefit Legal and/or the 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

Relationships:

- Reports to: Contracting Lead
- Supervises: No direct supervisory responsibility
- External Relationships: Accenture client executives and negotiating teams; Outside Counsel

Work Requirements:

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

Qualifications:

- Juris Doctorate (or equivalent)
- Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction
- Minimum 8 years transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in a law firm or a corporate legal/transaction group

Preferred Skills:

- Minimum of 4 years of experience negotiating Intellectual Property and Data Privacy issues preferred
- 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

Professional Skills:

- 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
- Experience and demonstrated capability in conducting and supervising investigations and in drafting confidential reports and advising senior leadership on such risks
- In-depth knowledge of local ethical/conduct/compliance-related risks, employee rights and obligations, and related laws
- Extensive experience in employee relations and workplace investigations
- Demonstrated leadership and teamwork in a professional setting; either military or civilian

Salary Information:

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, including office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York, or Washington. The annual salary range for the Contracting Counsel Senior Manager role is as follows:

- California: $131,100 to $336,900
- Colorado: $131,100 to $291,100
- New York: $121,400 to $336,900
- Washington: $139,600 to $309,900

Benefits:

Accenture offers a comprehensive benefits package for its employees. Information on benefits can be found on the company's website.

What We Believe:

Accenture has an unwavering commitment to diversity and aims for every employee to have a full sense of belonging within the organization. Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to the company's culture and core values. The company's rich diversity makes it more innovative and creative, which helps it better serve clients and communities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer and believes that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion, or sexual orientation. All employment decisions are made without regard to these factors. The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances and offers reasonable accommodation when needed.

Requesting an Accommodation:

If hired, applicants with disabilities or religious observances may participate in Accenture's reasonable accommodation process to perform the essential functions of their role. Accommodations made during the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations.

Other Employment Statements:

- Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.
- Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
- Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.
- The company will not discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Additionally, employees who have access to compensation information of other employees or applicants cannot disclose it to individuals who do not have access to this information, unless required by law.

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Negotiation, risk management, ethical behavior, compliance, legal advising, contract drafting, client relations, market analysis, leadership, team management, transaction management

Juris Doctorate (or equivalent)

Interested candidates can apply online through the Accenture website.

Qualification and Experience Juris Doctorate (or equivalent), authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction

Legal