Contracting Counsel Manager

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Lead, structure, negotiate and close Accenture’s complex client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective and educate and advise company executives with respect to legal and risk management issues
• Counsel, guide, train and support junior CLPs
• 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 experience in one of more areas that benefit Legal and/or our 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

Qualification & Experience

• Law Degree
• Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction
• Minimum 6 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, systems integration, and/or outsourcing areas in roles with increasing responsibility, such experience should be in a law firm or in a fast-paced corporate legal/transaction group in a relevant industry
• Minimum of 3 years of experience negotiating Intellectual Property and Data Privacy issues preferred