Contracting Counsel Associate Manager

Overview

Review, draft and negotiate several types of contractual agreements in a fast-paced corporate environment, supporting more senior Contracting lawyers on complex contracts and deal structures.

What you'll do

• Independently structure, negotiate and close client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective.
• Review, draft and negotiate master services agreements, outsourcing agreements, statements of work, service level agreements, licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, data transfer agreements and requests for proposals, including agreements involving cloud, blockchain security, applied intelligence, systems integration and agile development.
• Strategize with senior Contracting lawyers and internal business clients prior to client negotiations.
• Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients and industries, and incorporate them into 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 legal and business issues.
• Support, promote and implement Accenture Legal initiatives.
• Embrace and evolve to gain expertise in seven Contracting attributes, including becoming a pathfinder, an architect, and a business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology-enabled contracting lawyer.

What you'll need

• LLB or JD (or equivalent).
• Minimum 4 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration and/or outsourcing areas, in roles with increasing responsibility, in a law firm or in a fast-paced in-house role in a relevant industry.
• Minimum 2 years of experience negotiating intellectual property and data privacy issues.
• Proven 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.
• Understanding of basic principles of finance, accounting, marketing and management.
• Strong executive presence.
• Good understanding of contracting and risk issues, including IP, as they apply to digital, consulting, systems integration and outsourcing transactions.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English and Bahasa Melayu.

Nice to have

• Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia or Thai.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru.