Buyside Contracting Counsel Specialist with English
Job Description
Industry: Business Consulting and Services
Seniority for this role: Mid-Senior level
Your career is about what you want to be and who you want to be. It’s about bringing your skills, curiosity and best true self to work. In Accenture Operations we rethink the way people work and businesses perform by harnessing the power of rich data for decision-making, innovative technology, and advanced machine intelligence. 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 centers 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. Job Profile Summary: 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. Overall Generic Responsibilities: Develop subject-matter knowledge and increase proficiency in the concerned support area and act as its point of contact; 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 implementation of new initiatives in Legal Buyside Contracting support area or within Legal/GLN, try to ‘give back’ to GLN/Legal; 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. By being part of our team, you will work from Monday to Friday, 09:00-18:00 in a hybrid setup. Skills that make your work successful: Bachelor’s degree in Law; Minimum of 5 years of experience at law firm or as in-house counsel and/or in legal outsourcing or relevant experience with drafting, reviewing and negotiating agreements; Fluency in English with strong oral and written communication skills; 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. Employee Benefits – Be Well, Work Well, Live Well Be at your physical best & take advantage of additional financial support: Flexible medical & dental subscription plan with Regina Maria; Nutrition counselling & Wellness subscriptions (7Card, Worldclass, SanoPass, or other providers); Benefit Online platform for gift vouchers, transportation passes, vacation, cultural activities and many others; Discount on Accenture shares through Employee Shares Purchase Plan; Referral bonus, depending on the career level of the job opening; Life insurance for you and your loved ones. Follow your purpose: 23 vacation days with our loyalty scheme, granting additional days: 1 extra day after 2 years, another after 5 years, and an additional day every 3 years until reaching a total of 30 vacation days; Additional private pension plan, starting the second month of employment; Flexible working hours depending on project specifics; Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities; Communities of interest: sport, volunteering, and employees’ resources groups (parents, mental health allies, Pride, disability, expats). Care for you and your loved ones: Psychological and psychotherapy counselling support; Premium access to well-being apps (Calm and Wysa); Paid maternity or paternity leave; Children educational reimbursement; Support for adoption & psychological, financial and legal sessions for everyone in your household. At the heart of change, there is a great human. Bring your ideas, ingenuity and passion and be part of our team! Show more Show less
