Offer summary

Qualifications:

Law Degree and authorized to practice law in at least one jurisdiction., 7-8 years of transactional experience in digital, consulting, or outsourcing roles., 3 years of experience negotiating Intellectual Property and Data Privacy issues preferred., Fluent in both French and English with strong executive presence..

Key responsibilities:

Lead and negotiate complex client transactions from a legal and business perspective.

Counsel and support junior Contract Legal Professionals (CLPs).

Stay updated on legal developments and incorporate them into transactional practices.

Develop internal guidelines and support Legal Group initiatives.

Job description

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.

In an era where people are critical to success, join a team that prioritizes human ingenuity and fosters a workforce where technology elevates people (not the other way around), freeing them up for more creative thinking and exciting work.

Global Legal Network (GLN) is a group of professionals operating globally from 11 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.

How you’ll make an impact:

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;
Reports to: Contracting Lead for the Market Unit;
External Relationships: Accenture client executives and negotiating teams; Outside Counsel;

By being part of our team, you will work from Monday to Friday, 09:00 AM - 18:00 PM (Romania time) in a 99% remote setup.

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Skills that make your work successful:

Law Degree;
Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction;
Minimum 7-8 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);
Accomplished negotiator with an 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 high degree of autonomy;
Experience negotiating and drafting technology-based agreements;
Understand 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 spoken and written French and English skills.
Additional desirable criteria: 12-15 years of experience in legal services

About Accenture

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