JOB SUMMARY:

As Contracting Counsel Manager on the Accenture Legal Team aligned to support Avanade’s Americas business, you will mainly partner with Avanade business management, business development executives, delivery executives, and other functions to lead, structure, draft and negotiate complex client transactions in a fast-paced corporate environment. Formed as a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft in 2000, Avanade is majority-owned by Accenture and the #1 Microsoft strategic partner globally, allowing Avanade to unlock the value of cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), and drive transformative business outcomes at speed and scale for our clients. You will play a crucial role in closing deals by negotiating master services agreements, statements of work, service level agreements, licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, data transfer agreements, and agreements involving cloud, AI, Generative AI, blockchain security, automation, systems integration and agile development. You will advise senior company leadership on legal risks associated with transactions and understanding of the larger market. You may manage and advise junior legal professionals on transactions and related matters. You will act, and continuously evolve as, a knowledgeable and relevant advisor on legal and commercial risks associated with transactions while supporting Legal, Business and Sales Leadership in shaping and executing Accenture’s and Avanade’s market-facing strategies.

This position is highly visible within the Avanade aligned Accenture Legal Team and places an emphasis on innovation. If you have a strong interest in the intersection between commercial deals, AI, and legal matters, a strong sense of curiosity, a passion for technology (particularly AI and Generative AI), and a consulting-oriented and client-centric approach, this role is ideal for you.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead, structure, negotiate and close Avanade’s complex client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective.

• Counsel, guide, train and support junior contracting lawyers.

• Stay abreast of developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into our transactional practices.

• Educate and advise company executives with respect to legal and risk management issues.

• 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.

• Develop internal training, guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge on AI issues.

• Support, promote and implement Legal Group initiatives.

• Support the adoption efforts of new technologies impacting legal work, in particular AI and Generative AI tools.

• Embrace and evolve to gain expertise in seven contracting attributes, including becoming a pathfinder, architect, business-minded, nonconformist, inspired, relevant and technology enabled contracting professional.

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QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's Degree in Law (mandatory)

• Authorized and licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.

• Advanced level of English (both written and oral).

• 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 Technology, Intellectual Property and Data Privacy issues preferred.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS:

• Accomplished negotiator with an understanding of principle-based negotiation strategy and tactics including the ability to present alternatives with proposed solutions.

• Proven ability to efficiently manage a large volume of transactions independently.

• 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, and systems integration transactions.

• Curious mindset and a strong interest in exploring the intersection between legal and technology, with particular interest in AI and Generative AI.

• Up-to-date working knowledge of Microsoft products and technology, including Microsoft Copilot.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to speak and present in public.

ABOUT AVANADE:

Avanade leads in providing innovative digital services, business solutions and design-led experiences for its clients, delivered through the power of people and the Microsoft ecosystem. Avanade has over 60 000 digitally connected people operating across 25 countries, bringing clients the best thinking through a collaborative culture that honours diversity and reflects the communities in which we operate.

We welcome all and seek talented individuals who can bring their whole self to work, build inclusive teams, and encourage diversity inside and outside the organization. Learn more at www.avanade.com.

About Accenture

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