Procurement Practice Specialist

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• The key aspects and responsibilities of your role will be: Draft and negotiate contracts based on both client templates and supplier templates, in a timely manner with appropriate legal support to ensure compliance with client standards; Strong subject matter expertise in drafting agreements in following areas: IT, Marketing, Professional Services, Facilities, MRO. Specific experience within the Pharma industry highly desirable; Coordinate and perform contract analysis, including redlines and negotiations with client legal and other stakeholders, as well as suppliers to: Negotiate business terms and collaborate, coordinate, and be able to explain risks and implications of contract terms to the business and other stakeholders.? Complete gap analyses, review, redline, and understand contract language, risks and implications of such language. Draft commercial terms as needed. Prepare and disseminate information regarding contract status, compliance, modifications, with the ability to work within cross-functional teams to maintain contracting procedures and ensuring adherence to regional/goal category strategies; Consulting and escalating positioning issues which are not solved satisfactorily to the project team in a timely manner; Act as a contact between the project team and/or business unit and corporate legal counsel, ensuring that all legal and contractual matters are addressed efficiently and promptly; Issue necessary modifications to clarify questions concerning such topics as specification changes, language ambiguities or clarification of contract clause; Manage multiple, complex projects independently with the ability to resolve complex negotiation issues in a timely manner, escalating as appropriate and push a deal through to execution; Assist with training and coaching to other contract specialists on legal review and interpretation; Ensure that all contracts and agreements are filed in the contract repository; Manage projects within Accenture’s proprietary or client workflow tools to document each step of the contract formation process. Maintain and update contract databases and disseminate information as appropriate

Qualification & Experience

• Qualifications : Bachelor of Laws/Master Of Law
• Years of Experience: 7 to 11 years