Contracting Specialist

About the Role

Review, draft, and negotiate several types of contractual agreements in a fast-paced corporate environment. Act as a knowledgeable and relevant advisor on legal and commercial risks associated with transactions.

Key Responsibilities

• Structure, negotiate, and close client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective with autonomy.
• Educate and advise company executives with respect to legal and risk management issues.
• 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 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.
• Team with more senior CLPs in supporting more complex contracts and deal structures.

Contract Types

• Master Services Agreements
• Outsourcing Agreements
• Statements of Work
• Service Level Agreements
• Licensing Agreements
• SaaS Agreements
• Data Transfer Agreements
• Requests for Proposals
• Agreements involving cloud, blockchain security, automation, systems integration, and agile development.

Relationships

• Reports to: Contracting Lead for the MU
• Supervises: No direct supervisory responsibility
• External Relationships: Accenture client executives and negotiating teams; Outside Counsel