Legal Contracting Specialist

Contracting Counsel Specialist

Skill required: Contracting - Contracting Regulations
Designation: Contracting Counsel Specialist
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:7 to 11 years
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What would you do? Draft, review and negotiate the buyside agreements and similar/related documentation with Accenture vendor, to procure various goods and services including but not limited to Contractors, Human Resources Support, IT & Telecom, Marketing & Communications, Workplace Support (Facilities & Services), Software as a Service etc. in accordance with Accenture s vendor s contracting standards, applicable laws, and business requirements to ensure contractual risks are clearly identified and addressed in compliance with Accenture s policies and standards. Leverage analytics to speed contract review process and calibrate contract risk. Global Legal Network (GLN) is a group of professionals operating globally from 10 countries. It provides a broad spectrum of differentiated services - focused on delivering value and innovation. We partner with Legal teams across Accenture to build efficiencies and centres of excellence related to Legal services; and through our size, geographic spread and language diversity, the Global Legal Network is able to drive quality, agility and speed in our services, aligned to Accenture’s relentless focus on maximum efficiency and operational effectiveness. 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. Behaviors and Attributes: • Understand cross-cultures and open to work with team members across the globe • 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 • Collaborative and persuasive; able to work well with executives and non-executives.
What are we looking for? Education: • Bachelor’s degree in Law. Work Experience: • Minimum of 5 years of experience at law firm or as in-house counsel and/or in legal outsourcing. Experience with drafting, reviewing and negotiating agreements Work Requirements: • Travel may be required. • Fluency in English (and other language, depending on geography supported) with strong oral and written communication skills Knowledge and Skill Requirements: • Demonstrate promptness, accuracy, consistency, and drives tasks to closure • Able to work with internal and external teams to assist with day to day support and to understand delivery requirements • Demonstrate adaptability, positive & collaborative attitude, good interpersonal skills, strong time management and prioritization skills, attention to detail, sound judgement, and organization skills • Demonstrates keenness to learn and train on new processes and areas, able to assist with day-to-day support and to understand delivery requirements • Able to recommend high quality and timely advice for risk mitigation by efficiently assessing business and legal implications Overall Generic Responsibilities • Develop subject-matter knowledge and increase proficiency in the concerned support area and act as its POC • Directly liaison with internal stakeholders on various issues and build credible and effective relationships with the internal stakeholders as well as within the team • Support recruitment efforts for the team, supervise resources, and assist the Team Lead or Group lead in people management, as and when required, provide team members with positive and developmental feedback • Identify and support any specific trainings for the team, provide coaching and mentoring to junior members of the team • Support implementation of new initiatives in Legal Buyside Contracting support area or within Legal/GLN, try to ‘give back’ to GLN/Legal. • Manage SharePoint and communication records.
Roles and Responsibilities: • Draft, review and negotiate the 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. • Customize the existing templates in exceptional cases to suit the business requirements thereby ensuring compliance to applicable local laws and Accenture’s supplier’s contracting standards. • Review the supplier templates and ensure that the deviations to the Accenture’s supplier’s contracting standards are timely identified and highlighted to the business whenever they pose as risks to Accenture operations. • Participate in negotiations by representing company’ s interests and interface directly with client/ vendor negotiating teams with suppliers, third parties, subcontractors etc., to agree to contractual terms in accordance with Accenture’s supplier’s contracting standards, applicable laws, and stakeholder requirements. • Liaise and effectively collaborate with internal stakeholders such as deal teams, Solution Architects, Procurement, HR, Workplace, Finance, Marketing & Communications etc., as well as with external parties such as suppliers, external counsel etc. to ensure contractual risks are clearly identified and addressed in compliance with Accenture s policies and standards. • 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 escalate accordingly to the SME/leadership on the deal etc.