Contracting Specialist

Overview

Review, draft, and negotiate several types of contractual agreements in a fast-paced corporate environment, working with more senior CLPs on complex contracts and deal structures, and acting as an advisor on legal and commercial risks associated with transactions.

What you'll do

• Help to structure, negotiate and close client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective with autonomy, and educate and advise company executives with respect to legal and risk management issues
• 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, automation, systems integration and agile development
• Strategize with senior CLPs and internal business clients prior to client negotiations
• Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company's transactional practices
• 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 experience in seven Contracting attributes, including becoming a pathfinder, architect, business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology enabled contracting professional

What you'll need

• Law Degree
• Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction
• Minimum 2 years of experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in roles with increasing responsibility, in a law firm or in a fast-paced corporate legal/transaction group in a relevant industry
• Understanding of principle-based negotiation strategy and tactics, including the ability to present alternatives with proposed solutions
• Demonstrated ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions with autonomy
• Experience negotiating and drafting technology-based agreements
• Understanding of 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

Nice to have

• 5-8 years of experience in legal services (for applicants in GLN)

Details

• Location: Bengaluru
• Reports to the Contracting Lead for the MU; no direct supervisory responsibility
• External relationships with Accenture client executives and negotiating teams, and Outside Counsel
• Travel required
• Candidates currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration